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w w XYZ and shelter for the Indians should they de¬ A Card From Secretary . termine to return and enjoy the fruits of their Editor Record | I observe.,by numerous unholy victory over the slain. editorial comments as scon in the Philadel By giving this explanation of Dr. Egle’s phia Press and some other papers of this position you will oblige our association, the vicinity, in discussing the facts of Dr. Egle’s members of which gladly hail any testimony that will entirely acquit the proprietary historical address at the Wyoming Monu¬ governor and council of any complicity or ment on July 8, that they entirely mistake guiity knowledge of the intended raid so the subject on which tho speaker based his fatal in its results to these flrst settlers here discourse. I did not know beforehand what 1 in Wyoming, and the members of which as¬ manner of address he intended to favor us sociation are not nearly so exclusive in their i notions of fellowship as some of their Quaker with; but after listening to it I was pleased brethren profess to believe. to find that he had not followed the beaten Wesley Johnson, Secretary. track of former speakers on a like occasion, by dwelling on events connected w th the Onb by one the ruthless hand of the icono- battle of 3d of July, 1778, and at once clastic historians shatters onr idols. For offered a resolution thanking the doctor for years and years the common people cf this his able and instructive paper as a contribu¬ county have been looked down upon, snubbed, tion to the history of the valley of an earlier brow-beaten and socially ostracized, because period than the one we had met to com¬ their great-grandfather’s names were not memorate. This was unanimously adopted “sculped” upon the Wyoming monument. after having been heartily seconded by Col. The pretentions of these aristocrats to great Dorranoe, though somewhat changed in iis and high honors were based upon the simple meaning a8 put by the president for the day. The fact is that Dr. Egle did not in any fact that their Connecticut ancestors came way touch upon the history as connected with and “squatted” upon the land to which they the battle and massacre of July 3,1778, other- had no legal right and that they were | wise than to refer to the heroism, of the ! participants being worthy of all praise. I. defeated in a battle near Wyoming on the 3rd | was of the flrst massacre, so called, of 1763. of July, 1778. ; that he undertook to speak, and to shew For years this battle of Wyoming has been I from documentary testimony in the archive? ' of the State Library that the governor and denominated as a massacre and the people | council at that time had been wrongfully ac who fell in it considered martyrs. Of course I cused Of a wicked complicity with the In- all blood shed in tho holy cause of liberty, is j Qians in bringing upon the Connecticut peo pie that dire calamity. It is true that the sacred but the toney people of our F. F. V. ; Quaker governor of Pennsylvania had re- have endeavored to throw a particular halo of i peatadly warned them that they wore tres- i passers upon these lands, but the settlers did glory around the killed of that day, because, j not look upon the situation from the same forsooth, they were “massacred.” Time and j standpoint as the Pennsylvania authorities, truth have shorn it of many of the mas¬ aud refused to leave at their bidding. The I raid in which some thirty or forty of our sacre features, aud at the centennial celebra¬ ! people were massacred in the fall was tion in 1878 the committee in charge amend¬ made by Oneida and Cayuga Indians from ed the old lime name and it was cfficially what was then called the “Lake Country” in the Province of New York, who came hert styled the “Battle and Massacre of Wyom- - by way of the West Branch of the Susque- ing. i hanna, avoiding the Pennsylvania soldiers The latest person to punch a hole in this ] stationed at Fort Augusta, near tho junction I of the two rivers, as reported by the two eom- inflated wind bag of self-pride and exclusive¬ ] panies from Lancaster County constituting ness is Dr. Egle, the State Librarian, who i the garrison stationed there, corrected the history that these parties in in¬ i It had been intimated by Charles Miner and other Yankee historians that as these terest have been teaching as gospel truth, and soldiers did not prevent the raid up the let in some of the light of day npon their er¬ North Branch when they had it in their power to do so, consequently they must have rors, and in language that was polite enough connived at it, if they did not really aid and for a Frenchman administered a rebnke to ; abet these blood-thirsty savages in their hell- them for their selfishness in keeping these ; ish work of murder of these defenseless Yankee settlers here in 'Wyoming, and in celebrations to themselves, and beneath his j the absence of any explanation of the case, speech conld be distinctly traced his con¬ this would seem to be a fair inference from the facts, and especially when we tempt for their many foolish pretensions. remember that it is a fact that has never been There are some unwritten things abont denied by the Pennsylvania authorities, nor this “masssacre” of Wyoming which, if can it be, that these same Pennsylvania soldiers appeared on the scene within a few printed would rob it cf many of its romantic days after the slaughter and ruined and de- traditions. i stroyed what little of buildings and stores had escaped destruction at the hands of these. There are descendants of these first set- ( ; bloody marauders from the North. This tiers, living all around ns to-day, who are the wanton destruction of the property of the ill- acme of America’s best type of citizens;) fated settlers from Connecticut, it was claimed by Dr. Egie, was justifiable, as there are others whose sole claim to position shown by documentary testimony of the time is dne to the enhanced valne of lands in¬ contained in dispatches from these Lancaster herited by them which have enormously appre¬ County soldiers, was done to prevent the abandoned property furnishing subsistence ciated in value by the enterprise of other people, and there are some alleged aristocratic descendants whom—but we will throw the mantle of charity over them. AT WYOMING MONUMENT. from Dr. Hollister, one of the vice-presidents of the association, was read. Calvin Parsons The One Hundred and Eleventh Anniversary and Mr. Jenkins led in singing “America” of the Wyoming Massacre Commemor¬ and Rev. J. K. Kilborn pronounced the bene¬ ated, diction. Those who have been accustomed The usual company, not too large, but to attend these exercises missed General characteristically patriotic, enthusiastic and Dana, and some disappointment was felt that high-toned, gathered last Wednesday after¬ no carefully prepared sketch ot his life was noon at the Wyoming Monument to celebrate presented. This was perhaps in part due to the one hundred and eleventh anniversary of the fact that such a sketch is being prepared j the massacre. Large flags were displayed, for the Historical Society, of which he was ■ and roses in abundance from Benj. F. Dor- President at the time of his death. rance’s conservatory were strewn. The Wy¬ oming Band enlivened the occasion with pa¬ Interesting Item of History. triotic music. The President of the Com¬ Editob Recoed : In an old number of the memorative Association, Gol. Charles Dor- Providence Gazette and Country Journal,. rance, called the meeting to order, and Rev. I Dec. 9, 1769, printed at Providence, It. I.,, Dr. Hodge offered prayer. The President’s I and now in the possession of W. H. Sturde- address followed and was marked by an en¬ thusiasm and vigor unusual in a man of vant, appears ihe following item of news eighty-fcnr years. Col. Dorrance began from Wyoming Valley one hundred and with an apology for not making the address twenty years ago. If correct, it gives the expected of him, saying that he bad just only detailed account of the capture of -Col. risen from a sick-bed and until noon had been Jno. Durkee, differing somewhat from weighed down with disappointment trom his Pearce’s account. Miner’s History states, expectation of not being able to be present. p. 113, that Captain Ogden of the Pennsylva¬ nia forces “with fifty armed men, by a vigor¬ He spoke, however, at some length and spoke ous and well timed movement, seized Captain well. Durkee,commander of the Yankees.” Pearce’s An ode, written in 1841 bv Amos Sisby, Annals, p. 66, says that Ogden “with a party editor of the Wilkes-Barre Advocate, (now of lorty or fifty men suddenly attacked tlio Record of tlte Times) was admirably read by houses of some of the settlers and took a few Philip Myers,- esq , of Chicago, a grandson prisoners, among whom was Major John of Philip Myers, of Forty Furt. Durkee.” The rest of the item also differs Dr. William H. Egle, of Harrisburg, was' somewhat from the historians in their ac¬ then introduced and delivered the historical count, h. e. n. “By a Gentleman from Windham we learn address, in which he Bpoke principally of the that several of the New England Adventurers first massacre at Wyoming, which took have lately returned from the Susquehanna. place October 20, 1763. The speaker en¬ Major Durgee, their leader, in going from deavored to show by extended quotations the Blockhouse to view some Mills that were from documents of the times and by other erecting, was waylaid and seized by a Num¬ evidence that the ‘ Pennamites were not ber of armed Mon from Pennsylvania, who evilly disposed towards the Yankee settlers conducted him to Easton. They afterwards and that the stories of Pennamite cruelty surrounded the Bloakhouse and demanded a Conference with some of the principal Sett¬ and heartlessness were either gross misrepre¬ lers, who accordingly went without the Gate sentations or pure fiction, and certainly un¬ for that Purpose. The Pennsylvanians fair to the warm-hearted, humane, hospita¬ availing themselves of this Opportunity ble Scotch-Irish and Dutch settlers of lower marched into the Blockhouse, when it was Pennsylvania. The Wyoming people had agreed that an equal Number of each Party been too exclusive. The beauty of Wyom¬ i would remain there till Spring, or until the ing is not for their exclusive admiration. ' Controverted Right of the Lands shall be de¬ termined.” The noble patriotism of the Connecticut and Rhode Island settlers is to-day the heri¬ tage of Pennsylvania, not of Yankeedom. Wyoming should realize that it is part of the "HflZLE GOUNTY.” grandest State in the whole sisterhood, and but part. Other localities have contributed SUMMARY OF REASONS AGAINST to the history of Pennsylvania, and others besides Yankees may have had an ances¬ THE SCHEME. try. The speaker thought the Wyoming Yankees had some good traits; he was sure Luzerne Not Unwieldy—Comparison with the Paxtang boys had. Let the Wyoming patriots lay aside their unjust prejudices and the Size of Other Oonntles—Communl- their exclusiveness, invite their neighbors eation Between Its Several Parts Fre¬ to their celebration, and all celebrate the occasion as one of the noble events of Penn¬ quent and Convenient — Low Taxes, sylvania’s history. Good Government and a County to Be The address was an eloquent one, valuable historically and well received. A vote of Frond Of. thanks to the speaker for his “fearless and The fancy that the legislature will, with¬ honest address,” which Mr. Jenkins, in put¬ ting the question, laughingly changed to out urging, look into and disoern the un¬ “honestly intended” was unanimously passed. fairness of the proposed Hazle County | Sheldon Reynolds, esq , contrasted old scheme and scotch it, seems to possess most j Wyoming with the Wyoming of to-day. Dr. of the people of upper Luzerne. Nothing Harry Hakes, Rev. Dr. Jonathan K. Peck less will account for their indifferenoe in the and others made brief addresses. A letter i i i IfcL.-aUac -inffn- ***3b~ un the protest contained es, so the argument that Luzerne ana in the resolution adopted by the Board of Sohnylkill are too big utterly falls to the Trade but little has gone down from here to ground. We don’t hear anything from these other counties about the inconvenienoe and Harrisburg to make it appear to our repre¬ expense of getting to the oonnty eeat, sentatives that we do not want the soheme though many of them are larger oounties, to succeed. and the average is not much smaller. Be¬ It would be shameful to pass the sides whioh, it is doubtful if there is any bill under the oiroumstances, but oounty in the oountry, let alone in the State, more liberally supplied with railroad facili¬ with a large lobby urging it and nobody do¬ ties. ing anything against it, the prospects are A part of the territory whioh it is proposed that it will pass nevertheless, unless our to put in the new oonnty—that lying people are up and doing, and that pretty along the Susquehanna, opposite Shiok- soon and pretty vigorously. shinny—is within a half hours’ ride of There is not an argument worthy the Wilkes Barrt; and Hazleton, the proposed name in support of the soheme, AH that new oonnty seal, has three separate railroad has been or oan be said for it is either to¬ routes connecting them with ns, ie less than tally speoious or practical misrepresenta¬ two honrs off, and has a number of trains tion. The taxes of the people whom it is eaob way every day. The communication is proposed to set off are lower than they oould very convenient, much more so than the possibly be in the new county. citizens of tbe remoter parts of the aver¬ For oounty purposes Luzerneite* will be age oounty are provided with. taxed this year 7 mills on a very low The projectors of the soheme aver also valuation, realizing to the county not within that the Luzerne courts are overburdened, fifteen thousand dollars of what the county that the lower enders cannot get their oases is oalled upon to expend for elections, court tried, and that litigation for them involves costs, etc., in and among the residents of also a vast expense and aggravating incon¬ the towns and townships to be inoluded venience tnat would be obviated in the new oounty. If the new oounty were by the new oonnty. This is con¬ already organized and had built and paid for trary to the facts. The distriot the neoessary court house, jail and other attorney has been consulted and indignantly buildings, and if its authorities were ever so repudiates the statement, so far as the Quar¬ wise and economical in the management of ter Sessions Court is concerned. Ke is np affairs, they could not possibly bring their with hie docket, or will be by the end of the expenses down to a figure that such a tax as term for the coming month, and not a single is now levied on such a valuation as is now serious case has been pnt over. Common assessed, would meet. They have absolutely Pleas oases are no farther behind than they nothing to gain, and everything to are in every dense community, and we have ™ lose from succeeding with their new oounty a separate Orphans’ Court whose oases are soheme. Nobody oan be the gainer always up to date. This separate Orphans’ save those who want to fill its offices and Courtis of itself an advantage that the new enjoy the profits of its building and other oounty would be deprived or, and it is plain contracts. The soheme has no vitality, enough that, even were it true that tbe save in the ambitions of these men, and in courts generally are unable to keep up with the foolish assent of those who have been business that falls to them, it would be brought io believe that in a mere multiplica¬ cheaper and better to provide extra judges tion of officers and court houses and oounty than go to the extraordinary expense of or¬ prisons there is both glory and prosperity. ganizing a new oounty. The signers of the petition for the new The present population of Luzerne is in connty are not large property, owners, nor round figures about 200,000 It is a separ¬ are they in any sense especially representa¬ ate Congressional District and will remain tive men. They are good citizens as good so Under the next census it will almost citizens go, but there is no reason in their certainly be awarded two places in the standing or in the alleged faots they offer, State Senate. It has, as already seated, a why two great counties should be dismem¬ separate Orphans’ Court. The chief in¬ bered and taxes piled up upon the people dustries in ail its parts are eoal mining, simply that they, or a few of the more for¬ railroading and manufactures. Its people tunate of their friends, may be afforded are a homogeneous people. The business opportunity to soramble among themselves relations af each part of the oonnty are in¬ for a lot of additional plums of office. timate with all the other parts. Snob a They cffer as one of the reasons why the county, thus provided, counts for some¬ new oonnty should be organized that Lu¬ thing. 'Jfae influence it may exert as a zerne is too big and unwieldy. Luzerne has county is necessarily large. That influence but 926 square miles of territory. The fol¬ would be io a great extent frittered away by lowing named counties have a larger area: dividing it, and there is not a single sub¬ Bedford..1,008 square miles stantial reason why it should be divided. It Bradford.1,182 square mile* is neither positively Democratic nor posi¬ Centre. 1,227 square miles Clearfield. 1,180 square miles tively Republican, but is close enough po¬ Crawford.1,005 square miles litically to warrant the hope that in the here¬ “ rooming.1,213 square miles after party managers will be moved by con¬ oKean.1,007 square miles siderations of ordinary prudence to more Potter.1,071 square miles than ordinary care in the selection of their Somerset.1,102 square miles candidates. lioga.1,124 square i A oounty that has a population of 200,000, Westmoreland.1,048 square miles that mines abont two-fifths all the anthraoite § Berks, Lancaster, Warren and lork have coal produced in the oountry, that has more or over and Butler, Clinton, Fayette, miners by far than any other, that has the Huntingdon, Indiana, Susquehanna and power—when exerted wisely—to wield a Washington have over 800. In fact, out of strong, independent influence on the coun¬ 67 oounties, there are but 29 tnat have less cils, both of the State and Nation, is a than 600 square miles, and the average of oounty to be proud of, and that pride should the whole 67 counties is over 670 square move every oitizen to vigorous antagonism to the selfish soheme now in progress at Har¬ risburg to out it to pieces.

14579' j.he bill embodying the soheme is dearly arriving the 15th of November. Our regiment unconstitutional. Their conviction that that was put into winter quarters, but the barracks is the case aooounts, in some degree, for the being full there was no room lor us, It was a indifference displayed concerning it by the ha: d, cold winter, We had to bring our wood people hereabouts. But that is no reason a mile and a half from the rock mountain, being for indifference. The Supreme Court would a hard tervice; indeed, this addition to the hardshsps with my brother soldiers, the sum¬ probably set it aside, were it passed. But it mer past while on the Indian campaign, from ought not to pass. The passage of such the middle of June to the 1st of October, with measures creates a contempt for legislation, only one suit of thin clothes, in the. wildernesi which is the reverse of salutary in its influ¬ without houses or tents, only the heavens to ence, and this of itself should impel every cover our heads; and this is only-a part of the Senator and member representing the hardships our soldiers met wita. h umbers died on the march for want of food, whole or any part of the county to every and those w o lived through it nfever received honorable effort against the soheme, and their retained rations, nor clothes, nor the £4.10 should move our every citizen to a cordial endors'd on our bounty notes when receiving endorsement and vigorous bBoking-up of bur guns and equipments; and when we we:e suoh antagonistic effort. discharged, or before we were discharged, we had to turn them into the public store without I THE WAR OF VTTQ. receiving any pay or an order on our State treasury. This was the way the so diers were J John Dain’s 'Experiences—Historical and wronged. In regard t o our pay in continental I Autobiographical. I money it had so depreciated that when I was 1 discharged at We-t Point, the 9th day of Feb- j [From the Portland Argus.] ruary, 1780, by Col. John Brooks, who is now our governor, a month’s pay that was ten dol- ; Before me is a manuscript paper written lars would r ot buy me a meal of victual^ in by John Dain and dated 1818. It bears the sprue places on the road home. I had to pay $230 for a pair of deer-skin breeciie:. fn i he | features of antiquity in appearance, and if tear 1,77 they were sold at Cambridge for its contents is now given to the reading $4.50, but -..hen I was in Boston the June fol- ! lo - mg I had to give $30 a pound for cotton- ! public it will be preserved, and undoubted¬ wool, $9 for a pound of coffee, $6 for a pound of ly be of use in the hereafter, as well as sugar, $75 for a pot, and $111 for a pair of fLt- j irons. My goods were burned while in the ser¬ affording pleasure in its perusal at this vice and I lost most of a lot of land near the time, for we are living in the age of "scrap D l ham meeting house, by the depreciation o£- money; not only lost my time and property but books.” have lost my health also by lay ing down nights Of the parentage of the veteran soldier I on the ground with a’l my clothes wet. It was Feb. 7th, 1777, when I received an have no knowledge. He spent his latter order fom Capt. Danie Lane to enlist men and days on a farm in the town of Lisbon in this ; the promise of a commission as ensign. I en i listed twenty men and marched a part of them | State, and died at the ripe age of 86 years, to Cambridge, then called on Capt. Lane for my the 7th day of August, 1837. His wife, commission, but he had given it to Joseph j Chans. He did though give me a seargeant’s Elizabeth Proctor, who was born near berth, which I held three years.” Pride’s bridge in Westbrook, died Septem¬ The paper is dated at Lisbon, April 6th, ber 16, 1838, being married February 24, 1818, and endorsed by “Ezekiel Thomp¬ 1778. In 1846 his heirs were John and son, one of the selectmen of the town of Samuel Dain and Elizabeth Plummer. Lisbon” and Joseph Thompson. * One of John Dain’s requests was that a Upon the death of John Dane, the Revolu¬ statement he had prepared should be pub¬ tionary soldier, John and Samuel pur lished after his decease in the Argus, and chased property here in Portland, Samuel a note accompanying the copy before me in MSS says it was published in the East¬ at the cprner of Union and Fore streets and ern Argus Aug. 29, 1837, but the number went into trade, but soon returned to Lis¬ of that day I cannot find in the public lib‘ bon. John Dain, esq., for he was a justice rary. The article reads as follows:

of the peace, purchased land on Portland A HISTOKY. ■ street near Preble, and built the now quaint of my services in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain by me, John Dain. appearing brick dwelling house and shop, In the year 1775 I was 8 months with Capt. ! where he lived nearly fifty years respected Larabee at Harps well; two months with Capt. j and beloved. His wife’s name was Hannah Boston at Cambridge to drive Gen. Howe out of I Boston. February and March 1776. Then nine 1 Proctor, hence his cousin, was born at the months with Capt. Lowell in the artillery at birthplace of his mother, December 31, Portland in said year. Then the 7th day of I 1790. and was united in marriage January February, 1777, took orders from Capt. Daniel 11, 1818, by Rev. Caleb Bradley. The Lane as sergeant to enlist a number of men to 1 name of Dane is now extinct in this city, fill up said Lane’s company for the term of three ! though the female descendants of the Dain years in Col. Alden’s regiment. During that 3 years I served as orderly sergeant in that com- I family still survive. pany. I was at the taking of Burgoyne’s army After referring to the dates when enlisted at Sarotoga when he surrendered his troops the and under whom he served, that he was in 17th day of October to General Gates and Gen¬ the artillery under Capt. Lowell in defence eral Arnold 7000 n en. of Portlaud, and after stating briefly when | Then in the year 1778 said regiment was at and where the enemy was met, John Dain 1 Cherry Valley; on the 11th day of November Col. Brandt attacked said regiment with seven with his own hand records: tribes of Indians, and Col. Butler from .^agara | ‘•By request of Ren. Sullivan, who had in with a regiment of Tories. "We sought them his command 4,000 troops with whom we uni¬ three days and three nights; they laid tie ted our forces, we agreed to draw only one-half town in ashes, all but killed Col. Alden, took I allowance, to lengthen out our provi-ions; we Col. Stacy and a number more as prisoners and 1 marched 170 miles by the side of the Susque- killed many of the inhabiiants and drove off a j [ hanna river, the Indians and Tories fleeing be. number of cattle ana horses loaded with goods. ! fore us. We burnt 44 Indian towns, then re- In June, 1779, said regiment j lined Gen. i I turned on the 1st of October to Wyoming, the Poor s brigade and went down 130 miles on [ first English town on the river: then to Easton, Susquehanna river burning Indian towns to i I thence to North river, and on to West Point, Troga; joined Sullivan’s army; then marched to 1 New Sernung; then engaged all day Col.Brandt’6 seven tribes H Indians and Butler’s Tories* i drove them off at night —then drove them 170 •/aco^inue^ail the miles by the Genesee and Seneca Lakes, and ! elements which conspire to make a people bumt 44 Indian towns, Got out of provisions; then returned 1st October to East town—then progressive, flourishing and rich. 16th Xovt mber to West Point; then on the 9th day of Febuary 1780, received my discharge by Col. John Brooks who then commanded the late Col. Alden’s regim nt aDd had then to return The Valley of Wyoming has been noted home without money on the chatity of the in¬ . for the beauty of its scenery and thrilling habitants. We were worn out, and our clothes also. I historical associations. Poets have paint- f then had served in lour companies from the first day of the revolutionary war, five years, to get ed its charms in glowing colore, while his- J and obtain our liberty fr. m the tyranny of Old torians have vied with each other in de¬ England, ano by the blessing of God, and by the assistance service of the good old Washington we scribing the trials and sufferings of its all h .ve obtained it. This a true history of my services in said war. It is my sincere wish for early settlers. And if its early history this history to be notified and made public in the was written in blood, the calm of peace Argus after my decease. This wrote by my hand, j I being 8+ years old. John Gain. which now pervades the lovely vale has ef¬ November, 1836. faced all recollections of the terrible times ,:' David G. Plummer, who kept the fancy I goods shop several years on Market square, of 1778 and they can only be vividly recall¬ was his grandson. L. B. C. ed by turning back to the pages of his-, tory. If Colonels Wilkes and Barre, whose IN THE BEAUTIFUL WYOMING names are perpetuated in the beautiful city we now behold, could come forth and view it io-aay they would not only be sur- £ f Jolm of Lancaster" Visits the Bustling ' prised but amazed. Its lovely homes are City of Wilkesbarre. the admiration of all strangers. Take a drive through South Franklin street, for ATSBIVINGPLACEOF NEARLY 40,000 instance or up the river. What could be j more beautiful? If this is not sufficient, j ascend to the top of the magnificent Hoi- t With Numerous Manufactories, Paved lenbaok buildiDg, seven stories, and view Asphalt Streets, Stately Business Blocks,’ the enchanting scene which is spread be¬ Handsome Residences, Wide Awake fore you. Beneath you lies the city, in the | Newspapers, Electric Street Railways foreground rolls the river, while far to the and Lighted by Electricity. right can almost be descried the monu- j| [Special Correspondence.] j f ment reared to honor those who perished Wilkesbarre, Oat. 13.—No one can; in the massacre of July 3, 1778; in front is visit this bustling city without being im¬ Kingston, with the rich alluvial flats pressed with its beauty and the enterpiize which surround it, while busy Plymouth is displayed on every hand by its progressive seen to the left with Nanticoke in the dis- I people. Stately blocks of buildings meet tance. Beyond the Kingston mountain, the gaze of the stranger ,in alt the prinsi- ( like a girdle of blue, shuts in the horizon, pal streets, and the hum of machinery is while another stately range obscures the heard in numerous manufactories. Ten rear. Within the scope of your vision Or fifteen years ago this was not so. At lies a teeming population, the hum of that time the city inclined to be sleepy and whose industrial marts reaches your ear, aristocratic. But the constant increase in the and you turn away delighted at having development of the mineral wealth which gazqd upon such a lovely picture. lies beneath its surface, has infused fresh life and vigor into the people, and they can In recent years great improvements no longer be accused of a lack of enter- have been made in the streets of Wiikes prize. During the last ten years the city barre. The asphalt pavement is rapidly has increased rapidly, the population to coming into use. Several miles have al¬ day being little less than forty thousand, ready been laid and more are being put while the numerous suburban boroughs down. At first there was much opposition contain as many more inhabitants. The on aocount of the cost, but this is rapidly county of Luzerne, with a thrilling history giving way, and residents on cobble stone dating back for more than a hundred streets are petitioning to have the asphalt years, has a population of about two hun¬ put down. That this pavement is the dred thousand within her borders, and her coming one for all cities of any pretensions, wealth mounts away up in the tens of there seems to be little doubt, unless Ji millions. And there is every indication of something better is discovered. That it. h

.^ "v \ costs heavily is true, but it lasts much longer thaD any now infuse, is easily keptB in repair, and its smooth surface is de¬ labors are onerous, he has found time to J lightful to ride upon. Its cost here was write several valuable books and pamphlets f five dollars per lineal foot on North Main on historical subjeots. He is now engaged street, and six on South Main. The in¬ on a genealogical work of great magni-i creased cost is on streets through which tude, in which the origin and history of street cars pass. The city is lighted by several old Virginia families will be given, eleotricity, of course, and there is a line of and many errors regarding them, which electric street cars. In a short time it is have crept into history, will be corrected. , expected that the last horse car will dis¬ He has shown wonderful research as well appear, and electric oars in one combined as patience in tbfr collection of materials, system will be used. An omnibus line is and although the work is heavy, exacting also largely patronized. A ride down and perplexing, he seems to thrive under: South Franklin street, for a mile and a i it. It will make a volume of 800 or more half over the asphalt pauement, is a very pages, will be invaluable to public and delightful one. The street on both sides private libraries, and a monument to the . is lined with elegant private residences literary ability, industry and tenacity of * and luxuriant maple trees aflord an invit¬ purpose of its accomplished author. Mr. i ing shade in summer time. Many of the Hayden has also accumulated a library! streets crossing Franklin are also paved which is particularly rich in American . witfh asphalt, which adds to the attractive¬ and general history, and in rare and ouri- | ness of this portion of the city. ious books and pamphlets. It now oom- j prises about 7,000 volumes and is steadily & Wilkesbarre is liberally supplied with growing. He also possess many rare and good newspapers, which is one of the best interesting old manuscripts relating to evidences of the taste and culture of the, Colonial times, and relics and antiquities people. The Record, published by Dr. F. in large numbers. He is one of the most C. Johnson and J. C. Powell, is the lead¬ genial and companionable of men, as well ing morning daily. It was founded in as one of the most industrious, pious and 1832, and became a daily in 1873. Mr. learned, and nothing affords him greater Miner was one of the earliest publishers. pleasure than to exhibit and explain his Of late years it has improved greatly and treasures of ait and literature to his is now recognized as a first-class paper in friends. every respect. It covers the local field well and has an excellent general news ■ser.viae. Its young publishers are active, energetic and progressive, and fully ap¬ preciate the value of a live newspaper inr an enterprising city. Dr. Johnson devotes much attention to looal history and pub¬ IN WYOMING’S VALE lishes a valuable little magazine in connec¬ tion with his newspaper for the preserva¬ One Hundred and Thirteenth An¬ tion of historical matters relating to the niversary of the Massacre. Wyoming Valley. It is already in its third volume and is worthy of a place in every public and private library. That "HE MEMORY OF THE PIONEERS! the people of Wilkesbarre possess a liter¬ Beautiful Ceremonies on the Sacred ary taste, is shown in the splendid Oster- Spot Where Rests the Dust of the hout free library with its thousands of Brave Settlers Slain by the Tories an volumes and splendid quarters. The His¬ Indians in the Revolutionary War—El torical Society is another old and valuable quent Speeches in Memory of th institution, which contains in addition to Dead. its reports and books, large and fine col¬ lection of antiquities, the bulk of which From a Staff Correspondent. Wyoming, July 3.—Under the gently have been gathered in the Wyoming I rustling branches of native pines and oaks, Valley. by the side of the broad, old highway that leads into the quiet village of Wyoming. One of the hardest literary workers in 200 men, women and children were gath¬ this city is Rev. Horace E. Hayden. He ered this morning, while along the edge o '•v$i has been a resident of Wilkesbarre for 11 the road the horses of a score or more of years, and nothwithstanding his clerical \ Z American Revolution wearing flut¬ slaughtered on that summer day in July tering blue badges. As they came on the 113 years ago by John Butler and his horde ground Colonel Dorrance gave them an of savage Indians and almost savage j • individual greeting that was filled with Tories. the courtly manner of the last century. In the gathering that were seated this The ladies were all from Wilkes-Barre, morning around the granite monument and they were all seated iu the front rows 1 that marks the resting place of the bones > of the semi-circle of chairs that faced the of those who were butchered after Wyc- ; monument. j ming’s bloody battle, wTere the descendants Their regent, Mrs. William H. McC.art- I of many of the martyred. Just as the ney, was at their head. Near by sat Mrs. patriotic services were closing, the sun 1 Stanley Woodward, the vice-regent, and burst with summer splendor through the 1 Miss Ella Bowman, the secretary; Miss dull clouds, as if shedding its golden bene- Saliie Sharp, the treasurer of the order, | diction upon the pretty ceremonies and and Miss Mary A. Sharp, the register. i adding a dazzling freshness to the scene. ' Not far away were Mrs. Sheldon Reynolds. 1 And it was a lovely scene, full of peace;' Mrs. Ricketts, Mrs. Benjamin Reynolds, and repose—so different from July 3, 1773. Mi's. Alexander Farnham and Miss Emily | when the Iroquois were let loose upon the Butler, all of the advisory board. Mrs. : defenseless settlers with tomahawk and Isaac Hand chatted with Sirs. Thomas scalping knife to crimson this picturesque Graeme, and Mrs. Thaddeus Hilliard and valley with the blood of old and young. Miss Bessie Green were in a group of the As the welcome sun broke through the Daughters of the American Revolution clouds to the southeast, over a field of that included Miss Mary Tubbs, Mrs. Elijah yellow grain, and beyond rolling foot hills Wadhams and Miss Mary Slosson. rose the misty ridge of the Wilkes-Barre " PEOPLE PRESENT. mountains, while the lofty, deep green Mrs. Robert K. Laycock, of Wyoming, walls of the Kingston mountains towered was in the centre of a bunch of pretty j in the west. The view to the south was girls, who warmly applauded with their I broken by clumps of pines, but to the dainty bauds every patriotic sentiment north, through a little orchard, a great, ' uttered. Mrs. Foutz, wife of Judge Foutz, black coal breaker loomed up in Plutonian sat with a half dozen friends, and Sheldon contrast to a little golden sea of waving Reynolds and Captain Hezekiah Parsons J grain nearby. i were with a number of other Wilkes-Barre As the monument rested in the centre of ■ gentlemen. Like Colonel Dorrance, the a dewy, green carpet, sweet clover and j little blue silk ribbon of the Sons of the daisies raised their heads and seemed to I Revolution was on the breast of Rev. :; tell the revolutionary blooded gathering Horace Edwin Hayden, of Wilkes-Barre. present that they, too, had sprung from ! Janies D. Green and Robert T. Pettibone. the dust of patriots. I stood in a cluster of interested Wyoming VENERABLE COLONEL DORRANCE. gentlemen, among whom were Ira Griffen, Tlli s was the annual meeting day of that Jacob I. Shoemaker and William H. Jen¬ patriotic body, the Wyoming Commemo¬ kins, whose father was a noted historian rative Association, and it was under the of the Wyoming Valley, and when he died, auspices of that society that the memorial a few years ago, owned an extensive and .services to the memory of the historic most valuable collection of Indian relics. dead were conducted. The threatening Dr. Wesley Johnson, of the Wilkes- weather prevented many members from Barre Record, was there and so, was ex- nt being present, but it could uot keep its Representative Charles D. Foster, of the ; honored and venerable president, Colonel city down on the Susquehanna. Rev. Y. ’ Charles Dorrance, from coming up here C. Smith had his family along with him, and from Wilkes-Barre, ou his annual pilgrim¬ Rev. William A. Beecher, of Wyoming, || age to the shrine of his historic ancestors. was a neighbor to B. G. Cooper, of West The Colonel's hair has been whitened by Pittston, and John Butler, of Kingston. eighty-six years, but his patriotism still John B. Smith, president of the First k has the ardor of youth, and whenever he i National Bank of Plymouth, and Rev. f J gets up here and speaks of the sacrifices i John La Bar, of Wyoming; Dr. Frederick 1 made by the settlers of the valley he fills j Coras, of Kingston, and H. H. Harvey, of H everybody with the spirit of ’7d. ' All the Wilkes-Barre, sat under a spreading tree. I William S. Maekinson, of Maltby, and J. i _»ennett Smith, of Kingston were onlya]** heard as I heard in “the winter "nights of few feet from Jessie B. Schooley, of A\ yo_ long ago thee’ story of the horrible scenes ming, and John Welles Hollenback, of on this spot from the lips of the survivors Wilkes-Barre. , • of that massacre, would not wonder that- Rev John G. Eekman and Charles- A. we are stirred to emotion at the memory Miner, of Wilkes-Barre, were seen. Dr. of those scenes. I am no anarchist, but I Charles A. Knapp, of Wyoming, and Calvin do love liberty, and I know no one can Parsons, of Parsons, were on the commit¬ come to a nobler spot on earth than right tee of arrangements, of which William A- here.” Wilcox, of Scranton, was also a memoer, There was a tremor in the venerable and who was most active in assisting patriot’s voice as he said that it was the 1 President Dorrance in the work of the last time they would i-ee him in his capa- as president of the Commemorative Asso¬ day. TWO NOTED MEN. ciation, and after calling on his hearers to Under a tree stood two distinguished | \ ever keep green the memory of the Revo-, looking men of revolutionary lineage. One , lution, said farewell. was ex-Governor Henry M. Hoyt, of this j THE GRAND OLD SONG. -'-S t State, and the other ex-United States Sen¬ “AVe will now sing the grand old song, ator 'Patterson, from South Carolina.( , the best in the world," ; aid Colonel Dor-i Mr. Patterson comes from the well-. • ranee, and the audience stood up and known Patterson family that settled in) I joined with the Gwent Society in singing Lancaster county in the early days of thet “America.” last century. Near them sat a venerable l AA’esley Johnson then read letters ofi woman who is rich with the lore of this L • regret from John H. Torrey and Paul R. valley. She is Mrs. Sallie Henry, known AVeitzel, of Scranton, who wdre to have as the old settler of Wyoming, and next to * made brief addresses, and also a letter her rested a snowy-haired man. He was from Dr. H. Hollister, of Scranton, second Philip Jackson, of this pretty little village., vice president of the Association. His father was the man who, almost sixty In his letter Dr. Hollister, who is one years ago, took a rod and searched all of Wyoming Valley’s most scholarly his¬ Abraham’s plain for the resting place of torians, said: “Years roll by in rapid sue the historic dead. After he had driven cession, but the memory of the slaughter the rod into the ground hundreds and hun¬ , of the AVyoming Valley will always be as dreds of times he finally located the bodies, vivid as it was a century ago. While I and the bones were gathered together and fear that 1 may never assemble with you laid to rest under where the grey monu¬ ' again, I trust that my children and that ment now rears its shapely shaft toward our children’s children and you patriotic the skies. . S citizens will ever commemorate July 3.. ceremonies begin. 1773.”- -Ai Lap robes from the carriages were The other letters were filled with similar thrown on the steps at the foot of tne I sentiments. monument, and the gentlemen who were Mr. Johnson then called attention to the to take active part in the ceremonies, sat fact that the namesake of AVyoming Valley on the' steps in democratic fashion, while is AVyoming, the last State to be admitted to j a chair was given to Colonel Dorrance. the Union, and that on to-morrow, the . the quaint old president, who peeled off glorious Fourth, a star would be placed on his overcoat, adjusted his gold rimmed the Nation’s banner in honor of Wyoming's, glasses, and in a few remarks told what namesake. He said that when AVyoming ■ they were all there for. Then the men was celebrating the celebration of its entry ( bared their heads as the rugged looking into the sisterhood of States, he sent ! Welshmen of the .Gwent Society, of Ed- greeting to the namesake of old Wyoming. § ward&ville, stood up and sang the opening OLD WYOMING PROUD. song: “Valiant Warriors,” in excellent The greeting was: “Old Wyoming feels style. justly proud of the honor of having given The tall, gray bearded Rev. Dr. George her name to a member of the great sister¬ Frear, of Wilkes-Barre, then delivered the hood of States. May the child namesake invocation, in which he called on all pres¬ emulate the example of the mother Wyc- ent to be worthy of the sacrifice made by ming of bloody memory, and in’ all things those who paid the price of liberty with j show itself worthy of bearing the name their lives. of this beautiful and classic valley here ini The Welsh singers then gathered in a half Pennsylvania, so rich in patriotic memory, circle in front of the memorial shaft and immortalized by tbe poetry of Camp¬ sang “The Lord’s Prayer.” bell. endeared to our people by the 3d of “I see I am down for a president’s ad¬ July massacre, and the sad story of dress,” said Colonel Dorrance, as he arose. Frances Slocum and her life-long captivity “It wouldn't do to apologize, but I smiled among savages: and withal bearing within when I received the program fresh from her ample bosom untold wealth of anthra¬ the printer and saw that. I never made a cite coal not second in importance ,to the speech and I don’t know how, but as long I commerce of the whole world, to the gold as this heart beats and I am able to keep . fields of the Black Kills of your own Rocky out of bed I will be hear to do honor to Mountain State.” the memory of those whose dust lies un¬ “The forty-fourth, youngest State of the i der this monument. AVe are here to keep Union." came the reply of Governor AVar-1 alive the memories of those men who sac¬ ren, “Sends yon greeting and confident as-1 rificed their lives for us. Any one who 9

come back, over and over again, from their places of refuge. The invincible, in¬ destructible community persevered in its of bloody memory. _ __ contest against all, and no power, civilized (not develop such wealth of anthracite or barbarous, -could foot it out."’ The coal as has the parent, but the new state Gwent Society then sang the “Martyrs of I has a known area of bituminous coal the Arena.” | amounting to more than 30,000 square John Butler Reynolds, a descendant of miles."’ tne gallant Col. Zebulon Bqiler. who, with Ex-Governor Hoyt was then presented Colonel Nathan Denison, commanded the as the orator of the day. His face was settlers, then made an eloquent compari¬ pale and it was at once seen that he was son between the “old and new"—the Wyo¬ not the robust Harry Hoyt that graced ming Valley of forrest and farm and the the executive chair at Harrisburg. He Wyoming Valley of this busy age. was suffering with a cold he said, and af¬ After the Gwent men had sweetly sung ter a few happy remarks asked that Mr. “Comrades in Arms” the venerable presi¬ Fester read the oration. dent arose. THE ORATION”. “I now introduce to you,” said Colonel ‘‘The burden of what will bespoken here Dorrance, “a young man, whose ancestors to-day naturally terminates on the men were killed in their field the day before whose bodies lie under this memoriam the massacre. If they had been able to which their descendants have erected over get their guns I tell you there would have them," it began. ‘ ‘The center of the impulses been a few dead ‘Injuns.’ ” He was John which have made this gathering necessary S. Harding. He spoke briefly, but with a and proper lies at the incident,, the occur¬ happy faculty. rence here over a hundred years ago, and “I now introduce to you,” said the Colo¬ at the fortunes and persons who were nel, “Another Butler. His name is Wood¬ actors in it. It has been very loyally ob¬ ward, but it ought to be Butler,” and then served for many years now. I recognize the tall and Apollo-like John Butler Wood¬ here many of the lineal descendents of the ward, of Wilkes-Barre, stepped forward. group of men who participated in that Mi'. Woodward in a neat address said tragedy. In such hands its memory is not that many of the fantastic stories about. likely to pass away, 1 the Wyoming massacre were not founded “The relation of its stirring story fills on facts. He said it was believed now that many pages of history, tradition and song. General Brant did not take part in the Its moving and desperate issues constitute battle, and that Queen Esther did not sit the most pathetic chapter in the literature . on the bloody rock and pick out her vic¬ of our country. In all its annals it stands ! tims. out as the leading event in the history of THE TORY LEADER DEFENDED the Wyoming settlement. The unexpected, After smashing these legends Mr. Wood¬ sudden and atrocious “taking” off of the ward defended the memory of Colonel entire male population of the valley rivets John Butler, the Tory leader at the mas¬ | attention and fixes on the massacre as a sacre, whom he said was a brave and hon¬ very memorable event in the history of all orable man mankind. Indeed, the spectacle presented The Gwent singers gave “The Bride,” on that 3d of July, 17 7'8, is almost without and, when Colonel Dorrance had made a parallel in the annals of the race.” another pathetic farewell speech, the Rev. The ofation then ably and in eloquent H. L. Jones, an Episcooal minister of language pictured the heroic struggle of Wilkes-Barre, who looks not unlike Bishop the Connecticut settlers of the “Susque¬ Potter, of New York, pronounced a beau¬ hanna tract” against the aggressive de¬ tiful benedictiou to the simple, but prettj m mands of the Pennites, who laid, claim to ■' ceremonies of patriotism in honor of Wj the land as part of Pennsylvania. ming’s heroic dead. J. \v. P. In concluding, the oration quoted from Upham’s life of Pickering: “It is not only THE “EGLE’S” FLUTTER. endeared to its occupants by the attach¬ ments now mentioned, but consecrated by special experience of blood and war that IT CARRIES CONSTERNATION INTO have riveted on them the symyathies of THE RANKS OF THE YANKEES. mankind; perpetual in the heart of all coming generations by verses of foreign and native bards that will never die.” ° Saygings at tne Wyoming Monument A GRAPHIC PICTURE. Yesterday Which Had a Double Mean¬ “The devastation of the fields, the con¬ flagration of the dwellings and barns, and ing—Dr. Egle the State Librarian the lepeated massacre of the people; men, Corrects Some ol the Local women and children by savage hordesi ad these combined could not destroy or Historians. weaken the tenacity with which they clung to their lands. Those who escaped Yesterday was the 111th anniversary of the and scalping knife had Wyoming massacre, and the event was duly celebrated by the Wyoming Commemorative paper but it was evident that his views were •ation at the foot of the monnment in not favorably received by his auditors. The omiog. speaker claimed that the early settlers of The officers of the Association and about Wyoming knew the great danger they were 150 others were present. running when they invaded the Wyoming Colonel Charles Dorrance called the as¬ Valley—a territory then belonging to the semblage to order. Indians. Governor Hamilton had issued The Wyoming cornet band then played the three proclamations against white settlers Star Spangled Banner and were applauded. going into the Wyoming Valley. Tne third and I Rev, Dr. Hodge offered prayer. He in¬ last proclamation was .read in full by Dr. voked the blessing of the Most High upon Egle. It was a very severe state paper and i the services of the day; that He stir np in threatened to inflict all kinds of penalties J onr hearts the love of patriotism and country, upon settlers who invade the domains of the justice and righteousness. If these virtues Indiana. Despite these warnings, white men prevail then our grandsires, whose memory ► and their families continued to emigrate into we honor to dsy will not have died in vain. ! Wyoming Valley. Dr. Egle thought Gov. Col, Dorrance then delivered a brief ad¬ Hamilton was raled by Quaker influence in dress. He said: Another year has rolled issuing his proclamation and that had not around; another Si of Jnly has come to pass this influence been brought to bear the and we assemble again to do honor to the Governor would not have been so severe brave settlers who fell victims to the terrible against the settlers. Dr. Egle could not Indian butchery of 111 years ago. Iam agree with Historian Miner when he wrote hardly able to address yon. I have been that “the work of the Scotch-Irish troops in sick for a week and it was only by a special destroying the food supply and (houses effort that I was able to get here at all. Bnt after the massacre was infamous.” The while I have not the strength to speak to yon, I State Librarian was of the opinion that the I have the wish. I would like to go with troops did just what was right, for had they yon np that gorge in the distance and there not destroyed the food and shelter the Indians in the midst of the vast forest, show yon the would have been the gainerB. The Scotch- bloody work of the savage red men 111 years Irish had sympathetic hearts and were not ago. We complain of the heat to-day, capable of doiag a wrong to the Connecticut ! bnt it is nothing compared with settlers. _ the heat of Jnly 8, 1778. We Dr. Egle nlso scored Chas. Emory Smith, of shonld ever bear in mind that terrible trage¬ the Philadelphia Press, for disparaging re¬ dy, the victims of which lie bnried beneath mark she had made at a college commencement this monnment, and will continue to remain own East last week. Editor Smith told the here until the great resurrection day. Teach ollege students that there was a great flood in your children to pay devotion to taose brave he Susquehanna river in 1784 and that all the and good man. They never need be ashamed belongings of the New England settlers had ef them. been swept away; also a great many lives1 Mr. Dorrance then retired and Vice Presi¬ lost. When an appeal was made to the dent Steuben Jenkins was substituted as pre¬ Pennsylvania Legislature for assistance it siding officer. was refused. The speaker was Mr. Philip Myers, of Brooklyn, a descend¬ snrnrised that a gentleman of ed of OHe of the victims of the massacre read Mr* Smith’s standing should make snch the following ode com posed by Amos Sis^y misstatements. Only one life was lost in the and sang for the first ti me at the dedication flood and Pennsylvania did come to the rescue. of the monnment in 1841. The people of Berks, Lancaster and North¬ Sacred ground—where we are meeting, ampton county sent food in abundance. In Here the martyred patriot stood; conclusion Dr. Egle said the Wyoming Com- Friends and kindred give their greeting, memoration Association was too selfish; its Where their fathers gave their blood, When the foeman members were wrapped np in selfishness. Came like spring-time’s rushing flood. The history of the Wyoming masBacre does not belong exclusively to the descendants of Fathers, Mothers, Sons and Daughters, the men who perished in the battle. It lfl Suflered In that furious fray, Pennsylvania’s history also. Dr. Egle’sad-i And the Susquehanna’s waters Keddened with their blood that day, dress was too much Pennsylvania and not Well remembered. enough Yankee. The following resolution By our sires with thin locks gray. offered by Wesley Johnson, Esq., shows how Now the vale is sweetly shining; the address was received by the Association: Summer in her verdant green Resolved, That the Wyoming Commemo¬ ’Bound us every grace Is twining, rative Association return thanks to Dr. Egle Making glad the solemn scene; Happy voices. for his very able and honestly intended ad¬ Blend beneath fair Flora’s screen dress. . , . . . The resolution was unanimously adopted. And If ever, in our valley, Rev. J. K. Peck was one of Dr. Egle’8 Foes should dare the Freeman’s fight, Here shall be the Soldier’s rally, auditors who didn’t like the address. When Sunny morn, or stormy night: he was called upon for a few remarks he said: j God of Battles, I belong to the Yankee part of this program. 1 Ever guard and shield the right! I didn't come from Connecticut myself bnt I A bomb was thrown into the Yankee gather¬ married into a family whose ancestors were ing when Dr. Wm. H, Egle, State Librar¬ in the battle and their remains lie beneath this ian, and in course of his remarks criticised monument, I love to honor the memory of the local historians for their review of the Charles Miner and Lazarus Stewart, Only massacre, The Dr. had a well prepared yesterday we laid to rest the granddaughter, 11

E1!,as Blackman, the last one to hear from the hps of a survivor, the terrible story of lhink “ w“nld "tick, but fmm maS8acre> Elias Blackman escaped from the red demons by swim- mg across the Susquehanna River. t.hi"feat he waB 8hot at »»y toZ&vZXLsrt1,SLf pr"M“l SJSJ*"'bot fortunately escaped injnry. He then made his way to Forty Fort and Am^rithere 1° WilJke8'Bai,|,e- 1 a® like the OUR HISTORIC' GROUND,' f!?“1®a“„who on0 da7 met an Englishman. S®?11 B representative said to the Yankee: The Battle of Wyoming fittingly “Bnoklr RiVn11 g0t °“ , back there?” Hl11 damn job,”, y0nrwas the reply. That Commemorated. b® “yrepy with the exception that I might omit the blasphemy. I tell the story as f'itteemi Gather in theSbarte of the it was told to me by a minister. I shall always :;;;m:nt to par — *« ««e honor the men who died at Wyoming and I oUi Settlers Present- say now that any man who weald inanit the men who fell here is lacking in gratitude and dress ! ria“ E&le Splendid Ad- not a Jover of his country. This was a by Sheldon Reynolds. direct thrust at Egle. At the conclusion the i Near the village of Wyoming, on the speaker was loudly applauded Sheldon Reynoids read a Iengthv address K- in lpa:‘in? «P the Valley from rfahJstorical character. Mr. Reynolds said Kingston, stands a shaft of native granite the £?nDec.t,cat . T°’day we 8*semble here It was under the shadow of this pile of !torslwho n?v M E0We PeoPle—°or ancss- masonry that a band of old settlers and erfd kTii? 1 .,yearB a8° were so cruelly butch- tfieir descendants met last Wednesday to EOtdWet tWdf de^?n9,°f the forest. Let us that terrible day and let as teach ho d exercises commemorative of the hor- RevMldtr0fhtO ku6p U ln memory also Mr. ?aJ" 'd,i thoDfht the example set by the huneieTt?at0CCUn'ed in that held one early settlers of the Wyoming Valley might dred and eleven years ago on that after¬ Hon..*0’™3 JUh profi‘ in ‘bis generation! noon A large crowd was present but all Honesty, noble manhood and patriotism were found convenient seating accommodations bep*iacipIe8 h®ld dear by onr forefathers. nder the si ade of the trees that surround tlt/AaynW! yDffer Bnd0r heavy taxation, a he monument. It was after three o’clock Shores °S ^ f°raed emigw‘ion to when the Wyoming Cornet band arrive! tribute to* Gene“rB!li8r,8ddre8t’ paid 8 glowine and then the exercises were begun. Col. last annive?Ba« 1who died Binco

,‘e ^,brarian’ a^ the leading historian ox the State, Colonel Price had been en¬ EF gaged to make the historical address but a -ew days previous word was received that it much difference as There iB aa would be impossible for him to attend on account of illness. It was at this last mo¬ ment that Dr. Egle was called upon to has-

oecarionPareTlSretnin,g Suitable for ‘bis The Doctor said th*n tbem anna8Hy- oecas on. The well known historian did »«v.a ratSPOln -Ff peop!e for he toId them J many things aside from tradition that they ■A accustomed to hear. After brief I preciated the magnitude of’ their undertak¬ .iminary remarks he described the first ing and carefully considered the serious ■settlement of the land at Wyoming, then results liable to follow the assertion of their vaguely supposn me otner to the frequent attacks by the | regime of the event which is every year adverse claimants of the land, by the erec¬ commemorated at Wyoming. Mr. Rey¬ tion of block houses and stockades in the nolds said : several townships and assigned its garrison j From the records and history of the to each. The militia organization was | times and events of a century ago we may perfected by the enrollment ol'all the avail-1 form a fairly correct judgment of those men able men of the settlement. and women who undertook and successfully In a lemarkably brief space of t ime this' carried out the settlement of New York, company of men, overcoming the many anil and the sacrifices, privations and sufferings ‘great natural obstacles incident to their they endured in its accomplishment. undertaking, and triumphing over the forces I They did not come here in the spirit or sent against them and those they met on for the purpose of conquest—to displace the way, had established themselves in this j others and to reap the fruits of their toil. territory, had framed and adopted a code ol But they came by the sanction of the law laws, organized a civil government, enroll-1 under a claim ol right, and peaceably, if ed a militia force, garrisoned its [daces of i possible, to take up the waste and unoccu¬ detense, established churches amt schools,j pied territory that they had purchased, and laid our highways, reduced the forest and to build homes and earn a livelihood for brought the soil uuder a slate of cultivation themselves and their families. and productiveness. Under the genius of ' They were chiefly men of New England this people t here arose at once in this wil¬ birth, from Connecticut and Rhode Island, derness a mor I, vigorous and orderly state.) together with a small company from Lan¬ It did not grow from smaller beginnings, L caster county, Pa. In their traditions and nor did it attain its maturity and strength teachings they represented the best type of by slow and continuous movements, but like ' the American colonist; they had been bred Minerva it sprang into being fully armed i under the influences of the protestant chris- | and equipped. Remarkable as was its rise, * tian church; they had imbibed the stern no less remarkable was its survival in all virtues of the Puritan and the Scotch-Irish its essential elements throughout the whole Presbyterians. They possessed reverance for category of wars, sickness and flood. It was j religion, a love for learning, and a respect permanent in its character and remained, j and obedience for the law. In their daily The Connecticut settler, as he was called, ! lives they exhibited the qualities of indus¬ had the faculty of impressing upon the! try, energy and purpose, resolution, cour- j creation of his energies his own characteris¬ age, and a tenacity for their rights, together tics, one of which was a certain staying with a rare perseverance in the assertion and power. Disaster and desolation swept the maintenance of them. They brought with settlement time and again, and obliterated! them in their emigration their minister all else. But the Connecticut settler was i of the Gospel and the school teacher, and never entirely dislodged. He never relaxed j ! established their places of worship and their his firm grasp, and never went away of his ' schools. In the division of the lands they own volition. set apart a certain portion for the support of Accustomed to the use of arms and the) ' these instutions, in addition to a general necessities of war by reason of his services! tax levied and applied for the same purpose. to his country at Quebec, the Havannas, j The enterprise they had undertaken was and the Indian warfare of the border, he the recovery and settlement ot a tract of was peculiarly well equipped for maintain-1 i country 200 miles or more distant from ing this unequal contest. The persistent I their homes; beyond the furthest outposts energy that marked the progress of their and in an almost unknown wilderness; a ancesters in the settlement of New England! region dominated, as they soon learned, by in like manner characterized all their efforts! : the hostile Indians of the Six Nations and against the enemies there and natural, claimed by the Proprietory Government as obstacles they encountered here. laying within its charter limits. They ap-1 The men and women who could accom¬ plish a work of the magnitude that I have; -^ -• . here imperfectly indicated are worthy" of do well to seek IhspTration from the men in the highest commendation. They may have whose honor we have met here and consider !been poor; many of them uneducated; some | indeed may fall below the rank of merit what they endured in the maintenance of their rights, and what they did to dignify Iseen m their works. But as a body a American citizenship. And we might re¬ | community, they exhibit in the highest flect upon the manner of their life and I degree the virtues of that standard and death, and learn in what degree we are excellence that we recognize in the ideal American citizen. guided by the principles that governed their The tide of events has brought many actions. The seal of approbation has been changes since these primitive times. Com¬ set upon their works. Their influences sur¬ vive. petence has succeeded want; the cottage has given place to the mansion house” the It is said that man possesses a certain development of the natural resources of the worldly immortality, consisting in the rev¬ Valley and the march of modern enterprise erence in which his name is held. The good, and improvement have modified many of and great live according to their merits for I the features of the landscape. generations or throughout all time, and I There are other changes, however less their memories are held in respect and | observable and significant. ’ honor in the measure in which their deeds ! The chief characteristic of this 'people wu« have contributed to the sum of human hap¬ their patriotism; the love of country in its piness. Applying this thought to these more comprehensive sense. They felt men of Wyoming they should live in the themselves to be a part of a coxplex organ¬ | grateful remembrance of future generations, ism which could perfectly perform its func¬ | and their patriotism, their resolution, their tions only through the proper action of all valor, and their endurance gain luster its members; that the public welfare rested through the lapse of time. upon the active and willing co¬ ‘•Time but the impression stronger m akes operation of all those whose interests were As streams their channels deeper wear ” involved in its support; they recognized in Bravery, heroism, suffering and death advance the truth of that principle an¬ are the incidents of all battles. To these nounced by Abraham Lincoln that the incidents in the battle of Wyoming is added government they were helping to establish , a sentiment of deep and touching pathos was to he a government from the people, by I arising from the manner and circumstances the people and for the people. Holding such jof the death of most of throe who took part belief, their patriotism assumed a dual |in the engagement. " form. One phase of it was shown in the youthful WthTe °hieyY the undiscipl'ned, the eager enlistment of the number who served youthful, the aged spared through ineffi- in the Revolutionary war, a number out of all proportion to thejpopulation.; In fact it feSl2T the distaut of the , included all the able bodied men of the They had sheltered their families in a ] settlement. Another and a more rare qual¬ neighboring stockade as a means of slight ity of their patriotism is seen in their con- , protection while they went out to meet the j scientious discharge of all the duties im¬ ienemy After the battle, when the dav was posed by their civil organizations/— lost and retreat cut off, the thought of their (self imposed responsibilities and burdens. mothem fa^lbes’ ^ knowledge” that their |They fulfilled their agreements soberly1 mothers their wives and families far earnestly; in the guard and the watch and in the frequent assemblages of the town rSfT b““" !?>• to emhi n ' i !* merciless and savage foe meeting, they gave their time and energies emb",ft red their last moments and render- for the public weal. It seems to me that decadence of this principle, the principle &SZEr* *he ■**•"«*<• vr « that enforces the strict observance of duties public in their nature, the attention on the are Tmet,metni buth>ufUmen marks,t’ the'?nd placeer whose of their shades traffic we part of the citizens to the affairs that con¬ cern bis citizenship is one of the significant their lasrin bUmL . This true monument changes worthy of remark and which makes sxsssr1' lst,,em"y Tirt“s pertinent and appropriate in this connection the words Tempora inutantur.” It is b>, Harry Hakes followed Mr. Reynolds easy to see how much of the success of the Danar*a Pm ahtnbute to Hon. Edmund L. settlers of New York was owing to the ob- died since H?, er °f t-he ass°ciati0n who servance of these duties, and it is not diffi¬ on one rf w ™eetmP- The first name cult to estimate the magnitude of the evils that of An iab,eiS on the monument is that of Anderson Dana, and he was the growing up m these changed times through grandfather of Judge. E. L. Dana Dr the disregard of this wholesome principle. We suffer under heavy taxation; we lament Cobne^Dn PaM %eraceful compliment to Colonel Dorrance for the interest he has the fraud that taints the ballot; we are shocked at the hordes of the ignorant and theWrosonc-kteping n? the annual meetings of vicious that seek our shores, and we o-rieve e association. There have now been over a system of laws that accords to " them pledged fCm0? and tbe ’members have the right of suffrage by which they become versaryvertrvP^ as long elVe as \theyt0 live.meet in this anni¬ We JrievapngernUS t0 Am“ institutions YV e grieve and regret in respect to these A fter of reScet from Dr. Hollister, of Scranton, was read by Wesley Johnson. things, and we do little else. We would Peck, a historian, a Methodist 14

pteacher and"A near rtUtive of the late engine recently purchased. They asked Bishop Peck, was called' upen for a speech that immediate provision be made for ami he responded in a happy manner. housing the machine and urged the appar¬ Rev. J. K. Kilbourn pronounced the ent necessity of better care being taken benediction and the association was declar¬ of the complete apparatus. As the bor¬ ed adjourned for one year. ough is without money, the council did An ode written by Amos Sisty in 1841 not deem it proper to accept the apparatus was to have been sung, but the ladies failing j at present, but- the firemen were urged to in this part of the program, Mr. Philip; secure temporary quarters, being assured Myers, a forrrer resident ot Wyoming, was that the borough, would pay a reasonable called upon to read the ode. This Mr. My¬ sum .for rent. A ’ong discussion followed, ers did in a clear voice and with a most resulting in a deicision. to lay the entire impressive manner. matter on the table till a full meeting: of the council can be had. NOTES. Dr Sperhng, Rev. Miner Shallow, and j Kingston was represented by Dr. Fred Mr. Jatnes Waddell were present, presura-; Corss, W. George Powell and the Times ably in the interests of the new street editor and wife. that is to be opened through the Helme Dr, Y. C. Smith, formerly a Wyoming property, buc the discussion of the fire¬ pastor, was an interested spectator. man’s matters having occupied so much| The monument is a splendid piece of ma¬ time, they deferred the business till some; sonry and the stones of which it is built future meeting. were quarried at Plains, just across tbe John Lynch, high constable, reported; river. The entire cost was $8000 and at anuisance existing on Center street. It j the time when it was built Colonel Dorrance is a pool of slimy water, that appears says “a dollar looked as big as a half moon.” to stand in the street all ..he time for} The Colonel paid more than $300 to the want of proper drainage. This was re-; monument fund. ferred to the street committee. Oue of the eooncilmen suggested the Several weeks after the battle of Wy¬ straightening of Hoyt street. It seems oming. scouts who came upon the field were that this street from Main to Seminary- met with a teriible sight. The weather is about eight feet narrower than the * had been extremely hot and dry, so that the fieC; upon the corpses wa= dried up. .* remainder between Seminary and Chestnut. woman was found with hinges in her hands, At present nothing but an old barn ob- , supposed to have been put there while red structs the widening of the thorough-', hot, men had nails driven into their feet fare and it is thought au opportune time to take action. and arms and pitch forks were sticking into cheir bodies, In fact every devise for tor¬ Nothing definite was decided upon, and j ture that cruel savagery could invent seemed no other business corning before the coun¬ to have been practiced upon the victims of cil, it adjourned to meet at the call of | the president. the Wyoming Massacre. The bodies were collected on an ox sled and taken to the MORE GROWLING. spot where they now rest under the shaft of hewn stone which tells to the generations About Matters and Things on tbej that come and go the story of Wyoming’s West Side. fatal day. _ KINGSTON COUNCIL.. Two or three months ago the Kingston; town council passed a resolution directing [ Regular Monthly Meeting Held the borough attorney to draw up and pub-; Tuesday Evening. lishan ordinance requiring tbe laying of stone sidewalks on Chestnut, Maple, Prin¬ President John B. Reynolds, T. L. New¬ gle and Hoyt streets. A portion of this ell, and Secretary Boone were absent from ordinance was to effect the Catholic church the council meeting of Tuesday evening. corner and the streets leading directly from H. C. Miller was selected chairman pro that place, so that the great througs going; tem, and E. R. Morgan acted as secre¬ and returning every Sunday to and from; tary Following are the bills that were ths church might be accommodated with passed : the use of both sides of the street. The Electric Light Co- $ 31.26 Catholic Church, , of course, is anxious to A. A. Holbrook- 4.20. have this ordinance put through, and en-I John Lynch- 6.60 forced, as are other property holders effect¬ Teaming and Labor on Roads. 349.51 ed by the measure. The Church stands j Bill of Frank E. Wright for police service, ready to put down this pavement just as was referred to the police committee, and soon as the ordinance is published and when | the bill of M. Swallow for water rent, was they have the assurance that it will be en-1 tabled. forced upon the property holders who are Minutes of the last regular meeting were not in favor of laying sidewalks, and week ■ read and corrected. after week the Times has been scanned to , A committee from the fire department see the ordinance in print in compliance consisting of R. B. Vaughn, W. H. Shaver with the law. When the resolnticn first, and Otis Lincoln, waited upon the council passed the council, some of the property; and as the representatives of that body holders made arrangements with stone) presented to the borough the steam fire| masons for doing’ll then collect. His old- horse cars should be of course, are consideral boycotted by every resident on the West lay. What excuse there can be for not Side andMUV* withITiV-i-*. theVUO newUVM JIVWVlroad VUUIIlUgcutting 1UIUinto hisU1Q pushing this very commendable sidewalk railroad patronage, he will find that ten measure does not appear, but if it has cent fares and horses as a means of propul¬ slipped entirely from the minds of the sion are only relics of a dead past. Some councilmen, this may serve to jog their day we shall have' two electric roads in¬ memories and hurry up the publication of stead of one. West Side Growler. the ordinance. * THE FLOOD OF 1784. * * Electric railroads that expect to get into What State Librarian Epic Really Said of Wilkes-Barre on any sort of decent terms e Action of the Pennsylvania State will be sadly disappointed. The reason is Government at that Time. that William J. Harvey, owner of the It does not often fall to the lot of a man to Kingston and 3outh Main street lines, is be so persistently misrepresented as has president of the city council and he is using State Librarian Egle, who delivered the ad- his position to keep from the city anything dress at the commemorative meeting at Wyo- that even threatens competition with his I ming Monument on July 3. The misrepre¬ j established business. During the past sentation hasffieen made worse by editorials month two electric street car railroads have all over the State. Even so well posted a been knocking for admission into the city of paper as the Philadelphia Press has fallen Wilkes-Barre, and one is the West Side into the error of supposing that Dr. Egle’s road in which our people are so deeply in¬ (iseourse treated of the great massacre of terested. After experiencing great diffi¬ culty, a splendid iron bridge has been i8wTh^0 * r6ally treat0d of the massacre built across the river and a prefect highway, of 1763, the first which desolated Wyoming. above high water mark, is constructed A portion of the address took exception to a across the flats. Now comes the West Side recent utterance of Charles Emory Smith of electric street car. After surmounting the the Press, and the portion is herewith ap¬ obstacles presented on this side of the river pended though it refers to an event subse¬ they only get into deeper difficulties with quent to either of the two massacres: the city folks. The nabobs object to the * D0W’ lny friends, permit me to digress ! route. The track is too narrow to suit for a few moments and refer briefly to cer¬ them and a dozen flimsy excuses are through tain portions of an address delivered bv ■ Harvey’s agents made to appear like moun¬ fPresent7ess at fC°cthe commencementy Smith’ of the of Philadelphia Union rni tains—and the work is stopped. “Bill” loge, Schenectady, on June wherein he' j Harvey has in his actions shown all thu ; true inward ‘‘cussedness” of his nature. He of the -alley J is now a wealthy man, but he is bent on destruction on its huminJ1® death, havoc and nothing save that which will increase his own store of worldly possessions. Without manly instincts of any description he I squeezes the pocket of every man, rich and poor, that they shall pay tribute to his own unreasonable self. His old lumbering of a military scourge Jthe hori’ors affair on South Main street, Wilkes-Barre, • of .nature’s^ ealamf*adcle(l to the flight that he delights to think furnishes rapid transit for the residents of that vicinity is, as the Record expresses it, a mere parody. “s;r7o1™ - “• The impositions practiced upon the Kings¬ Now as veritable Pennsylvanians t ton people are every day too evident to be enumerated. While improvements of every f description are constantly being made in street car service, Harvey’s road remains always the same and threatens thus to go settle i°na„ f^qUire “lato th° «aseSW of the on forever. The same old extortionate fare is charged as was asked when the road was built a quarter of a century ago. The em~ , ployees have, many of them, imbibed that unaccommodating spirit from their em¬ ployer and perhaps a more cranky, uncivil It was also provided that “all further nm set of street car drivers and conductors is not to be found in the State of Pennsylva¬ nia. Harvey laughed when the new bridge was talked of. He shook his sides with I merriment when it was rumored that a new street car company would soon be looking after some of his business. Now he must settle down to the conclusion that sooner or Unfortunate)v thL r> , commissioners. later he will meet competition ot the sharp¬ est character. The competing road from : the first will charge five cents fare and it will indeed be few di res that Harvey will commissioners gave ear. ’ The resutt wis (JUtlewas accomplished and the commission! ' y w- gust, 1783, reported their failure to Jt Was All Due to the Old .erftl Assembly. This body seems at •/ • T'- - • me to have been under the Influence of Bridge. , Philadelphia land owners, and such action was taken by them as was in conson¬ ance with the,suggestions and views of Pat¬ terson. Two companies of State troops were sent to Wyoming ostensibly for protection The knocking, of the hammers, the creak¬ against the Indians, when there were none ing of the pulleys and the voices of the in arms. workmen on the old bridge yesterday after¬ In the spring of 1784, following these un¬ fruitful labors, there was a terrible ice flood noon, to one a short distance away, comin- ~ in the Susquehanna, which, although de¬ gled into a seeming echo as if the old struc¬ structive to many of the buildings and fences of the settlers, only one life, was lost. It was ture was remonstr ating against its destruc¬ not a Conemaugh cataclysm, tion while yet in its prime, after many long President Dickinson,true to the instincts of years of faithful services his nobility of manhood, sent this brief mes¬ And to the reporter it was as if an o’d sage to the Assembly; “GESTLBWEjr-mrbe iatB inundation having friend was dying. He was one of the many reduced many of the inhabitants at Wyoming to hundreds who were taking their last walk groat distress, \yo should he glad if your honor¬ able House would be pleased to make some im¬ over the solid planks of the bridge which mediate provision for their relief. for years has been one of the sights of (Signed) John Dickinson. Philadelphia. March 31,1784.” Wilkes-Barre. But everything must go be¬ "Ordered to lie on the table.” fore the march of progress, and even as the Of course, nothing was done by that illus¬ trious (?) body, and it was left for the chari¬ dear old fashioned; customs and habits of table inhabitants of the adjoining counties to our forefathers went so goes the bridge. send relief, And this vyas forthcoming— There was another among the crowd who Lancaster, and Berks, and Cumberland, con¬ tributed flour and grain^and the necessities was bidding a silent but pathetic fare¬ of the Wyoming people were relieved, well to the old bridge who was as Now for the next statement. Under orders by Irresponsible parties the troops at Wyom¬ deeply affected as the reporter ing in May following began to carry out a and sympathy even in the attention of the system of eviction against the Connecticut young man, whom he naturally must have settlers. The poor people, driven from their despised, because the reporter was a city houses, were well on their way to the Dela¬ ware, when the State authorities put a stop youth and he a farmer, and an old one at to these high handed outrages, and the set¬ that, from a region, judging from his hair, tlers were persuaded to return to their for¬ hat and habitants, even further away from mer homes. I have not words strong enough civilization than Dallas. There was a small to denounce this outrage, yet I could not, but noticeable shower of hayseed from his with ail the polish and rhetoric or eloquence of hair as he raised his head and gazed stead¬ the orator referred to, have had such a poor fastly at one of the massive curved beams opinion of this dear old Commonwealth to have proclaimed this upon the house-tops. which support the bridge. Not c/ne perished by the sioord. “It’s tbar yet, young man,” he said as the reporter gazed cnriously at him. “Yes?” “Yep. I wish to gol I could get that From cn\a. beam to take it hum with me.” “Hum,” said the scribbler by way of keeping up the conversatiou. “By gosh, if I’d a though of it, I’d a brought Nancy over to see it.” “Bee what?” Date,. “Great day in the morning! don’t you see that name carved up there, them two names, yer see, ef I warn’t seventy years old I’d lilt ye up so you conld see it.” “Oh, yes, ” said the city young man, I THE OLD' BRIDGE discern a slight indentation in the surface of the wood. Your name? “Hu; nope, not my name xactly, it air my father’s and my mother’s.” “Indeed. ” The Name Carved on the “Yep; it was put there before they were married, jest 68 years ago; the day this Massive Beam. bridge was first built. ” “There’s a story connected with it, is there?” the newspaper man asked. “Yep. Got any baccer? Thanks. Yer see it was this way: Father, Wiiliam Per¬ A FARMER’S FATHER. kins—Bill Perkins he was called—and Sam Jones wuz both in love with the same gal, Sue Tompkins. They wuz young fellers then, about 25 years old, and party spry A Night Hide in 1824: Which Re¬ with the gals. Sue kinder liked both uv em, and one clay would go with father arrd sulted in the Winning of a Wife. t’other with Sammy Jones. They had both ■^ ‘‘I ain’t pertic’lar, Sammy Jones. Bill’s just as good as you and you be just as good as Bill.” GOOD BYE, OJLD. BRIDGE. “Well, take yer pick,” says Sam. A ffevv Recollections Called up by the “I’ll let father nick for me,” says Sue. “He’s in Wilkes-Barre now.” she half Replacing of Wood by Iron and Steel. turned an’ saw pap’s face in ther winder, and said, “You can go to-night ef you want Tbe following ve: y enctfiainiLg sketch ter. ” of Wilkes-Barre’s eaHier/aays is from one Well, Sammy jest said “all right,” and who has been a subscfiiM* to the Leader for lit out for his home to get his hoss, and many years and who '•ifes bs9a a resident of pap warn’t slownuther. He had farther to this city over half a century. The reminis¬ go than Sam, but he didn’t stop for fences cences will b9 enjoyed; and went flying right through a hull field of wheat. He got out his horse, Jim, in no The first river bridge at Market street { which succeeded the ferry at Norfchsmntci time and got on without waiting to put on a street was built lev the Wilkes-Barre Bridsr- saddle. Then he let her go. The moon Company—incorporated iu 1807—by Wem- cum up jest as he got started and he made a wag and Powell at a cost of $40,000. It was short cut over the fields. Jest as be cum two years m building and comr>:e?'in 181S out on the road, up comes Sammy Jones on In 1819 the first pier was nnderrainsd, a^d his Black Bess, a flying. tne first span carried away. The seme was repaired by the State at a cost of $13 000 “Curse you,” he yelled, “I'll beat you In the winter of 18S4 and 5, a vioWt burri- thar,” and he lays on with the whip. cane carried the bridge off the piers, and de¬ “Then they went. Gee whiz, but it was posited it some distance above upon the ice a race, gallopin up bill and down and hnm- where it fell with a tremendous crash. It tmriug the Bosses. Pap didn’t hev a whip was again rebuilt by the aid of the State but he took off one shoe and hit with that. which remitted $15,000 in Statu claims Pur^y soou Sammy’s hoss got ahead and against the county by an act ef the Legisla¬ ture, and appointed G. M. Hollenbeck, Gar¬ pap nearly give in, but then ht thought of rick Mallerv acd Calvin Wadbams Commis¬ | something. There had been heavy rains and sioners So rebuild the bridge. Andrew Beau- . he knew the river had raised, so he calcu¬ mont was appointed by the Commissioners to lated to strike the river down below what is collect the money and iet the work, which now Ross street and get over the shallows was under the charge of Reuben Fields, as 1 there, while Sammy swum hts hoss over. architect. The State claims egaiust the The road they wnz on came out to the river bridge now amounted to $28 000, which above Wyoming, and Sammy Jones was go¬ were taken up by the company in after years. This refers to the bridge now ing to cross there. Pap wnz about a quarter being removed of four archer, each 175 of a mile behind Jones, when hs struck off feet in length. The Hoiienbaok store house for down the river, and he put his hoss was built to accommodate the river- traffic in through like ligktain. There was where his salt, plaster, grain, etc., which wrs brought luck came in. Neither of them knew any¬ , down from York State ia arks duriua- h.gh thing about the budge being finished for water in the river. The salt was io barrels ■ and the plaster in bulk which was deposited they hsdn t been to tows lately, and it just upon tbe bank and weighed cut to farmsrs happened it had been opened in quarter or half tons as required. The j for traffic that day, so pap when asms was true of the “Arndt S.oue House” : : » •' .. *f. 3 . stood opposite tiie Dariing property, •on Arndt kept tiie tavern which stood The old nickle mounted parade carriage upon the site of the Darling property, ad¬ joining, vTbich was his store. Thomas Mor¬ that the company dec-ded to dispose of has gan kept ths Stage House there in 1830 from been m the possession of the company since which the Troy coaches departed for New 1865, and it was at the time of its receipt York, Philadelphia, etc. As money was scarce in those days most of ths business was that the namsof the organizttionwes changed barter of produce for goods, and farmers from the Pittston Hose Company to Esgle brought grain ia wagons many miles to trade. This grain was also deposited in these store Hose Company. The carriage was built at a houses, taken from the wagons ti tbs should¬ cost of $2,000 for a Philadelphia volunteer ers of the clerks, and carried up into the company, which afterwards failed to keep Second story and deposited in the bins. It was in the Arndt stone house that “O-d their contract with the manufacturers. It Michael” lived alone for many years and was then sold to satisly a mortgage and the died there. He was high constable and ssx ton, and built the town pound on the bank in Pitt-.ton company secured it for $750 Some front of hia place of abode, where interesting stories are told of the trouble that ail quadrupeds found running ot large and many bipeds too drunk to the foreman of the Pittston company had to j run at large were impounded. Ia tie year gat the carriage here. It was necessary to I 1846, John Myers not being able to agree with the terms cf the Bridge Company, take it entirely apart and ship it by express, started a ferry immediately below the bridge [ closely watched all the way, so determined and ran a flat and skill until he brought the w re the members of the Philaae’phia com¬ company to terms. The tolls were high and many farmers and others tied up their teams pany that the carriage should not be taken , on the west side and crossed on foot, with from that city. light produce, and so many took advantage of ths free ferry that it was kept going to Its capacity. The trade in butter, eggs, etc., was never so great in the town. Butter was THE RECORD.! worth from 8 to 10 cent3and tons of it were Wilkes-Barre Pa, brought ia, showing what an advantage a free bridge woull have been. Several at¬ WEDNESDAY.. ..TX.~. APRIL 15, 1891 tempts were made by our merchants to make the bridge free, but they never succeeded, THE PROPOSED except that they caused a reduction of toils. This bridge wa9 very strong and well built, fit SSaesDH to be Thought St TJarrUbar* and withstood many floods and ico gorges, S’bat He Discovered Anthracite Coal — some of which cut off the ends of the arches Facta Show Bio DI*eovtjry Only a Local which rested upon the piers. If the new oae ■One. does as well it- will be satisfactory. We he.ve There is a bill on Its passage at Harris¬ seen the ice close up under the floor timbers and it would be a good idea t) raise the new burg which provides for the erection of a one somewhat higher than the old. monument to Philip GInter as “the dis¬ coverer of anthracite coal.” This subject has been pretty fully gone over and if the Harrisburg iaw makers are gullible enough 80 believe that Philip GInter “discovered” & coal an injunction ought to issue restrain¬ ing the State treasurer from spending the money. The fact of the matter is that! G inter’s discovery was purely local, anthra¬

■ - "VYutvAd v cite coal having been discovered end used elsewhere loDg before. The fact that AN OLD RELIC TO GO- Ginter found anthracite coal in Carbon f County Is unquestioned and the find was of Eagle Hose Company Disposes of Its great value to that region and a monument I Nickle Mounted Parade Carriage. ought to be erected over his bones by Car¬ bon County—but the State is not called | Last evening a regular meeting of Eagle upon to do so. [Hose Company was held, when it WrS de¬ -is early as l7-55 anthracite coal was used cided to dispose of their nickle mounted pa¬ atthe forks of the Susquehanna, Fort au- gusta, (now Sunbury) an important post rade carriage and their red four-wheeled car¬ on the Indian frontier. Documents in the riage to the Fabric F;re Hosa Company of British War Office prove this. The coal Now York, ia exchange fur fire hose. It was came down the Susquehanna from the Wyoming Valley at what is now also stated at the meeting that the plans for Nantreoke, where are located the extern }he new building would be ready by March si ve collieries of the Susquehanna Ccal Co. in© tirst settlers In Wyoming Valley, who 15th, aDd that by the first of April every¬ came crom Connetieut in 1763 reported rhat thing would be in readiness to begin the they found coal. James Tllgman of Philadelphia work of demolishing the old building, to make sent to the Penns in London a sample of room fir the new one. A committee was ap¬ coal -com Wyoming. See his letter In His. t'ineal Iiecord, vol. 3, p. 190. pointed to look up a p ace in which the car¬ In 176S a survey of a tract of land at Wyo¬ riage and engine of the company can be kept ming, somewhere betweenJKlngston and Ply. until the new building is completed. mouth Is marked “stone coal.” * X??e,FXXWilkes'Barre who is usually credited with the important discovery that coal could be burned in an ordinary grate * Mill Creek between North River and North without the aid of a bellows,used to tell that Main street?, was the farm of J. M. Hollen¬ [ Chadian Gore and Daniel Gore had used it 1 ia thefr blacksmith forges before the Revo- back. The only residence upon it was the | lationary War, about 1770 or 1771, possibly a farm house of Mr. Hollenback at Mill Creek year or two earlier and they clalnied to be the About the period above named Mr. Hollenback j drat to use it for blacksmithing. sold to J. M. Courtright one-half the land now During the Revolutionary War coal was lying between Courtright and Kulp avenues shipped from Wyoming Talley down the and they laid out the lands into lots. Among Susquehanna and used in the government the early purchasers were J. W. Lear, A. P. ! forges for making weapons at Carlisle, When Sullivan’s army passed up north in Krum, A. C. Montanye, and the Overton ! 17^9 to crush the Indiana of the Sis Nations, j family. These with others were Methodists, the presence of coal in Wyoming Talley was and in 1869 a Sunday school was started in the j noted. Courtright avenne public school building. In Jesse Pell used coal in a nailery at Wilkes- 1868 the remaining portion of the Barre In 1788. Hollenback farm was sold to Hon. Now as to Philip Sinter. He know all about the existence of coal at Wyoming and Charles A. Miner, Edward H. Chase something of Its use as above noted. In 1791 and George B. Kulp. They laid out while hunting on the mountains near Maueh their purchase into lots and In a short time Chunk he found coal at what is now Summit North Wilkes-Barre contained a considerable Hall and from his local diseoverv the great [ population and as there was no place for re¬ business of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation ligious worship near by, a mission cbapel was Co. originated, though it was 29 years before erected in 1870 on Franklin avenue at a cost the coal trade really began. The beginning of the coal trade is usually put down as 1820 jOf twenty-seven hundred dollars. The greater tue time that the Lehigh seheme got on its j part of this money was contributed by mem¬ feet. bers of the First Methodist Episcopal Church But really the coal trade began, not at of Wilkes-Barre. The chapel was erected un¬ Maueh Chunk, but in the Wyoming Talley, der the supervision of Rev. Thomas M. Reese, m 1807 the Smiths shipped a boatload to Col¬ the pastor of the First Church. The lot was umbia, and several loads the year following donated in 1869 by Messrs. Miner, Chase and Geo. M. Hollenback shipped two loads down tne river In 1813, and the same year Joseph I Kulp, to which Mr. Kulp subsequently gave wnght mined two boat loads near Port Grif- another lot which was designed for a parson¬ atfc. The same year Mr. Hollenback sent age. When the chapel was completed the eoa. by wagon to Philadelphia and James | Sunday school was removed from the Court- cee to Germantown. Lord Bu tier and Cran¬ right avenue school building. From this germ dall Wilcox both shipped in 1814. it was developed into what is now the Fourth In 1813 Hon. Charles Miner wrote In his Wilkes-Barre Gleaner that “the coal of Wyo¬ M. E. Church of Wijkes-Barre. Thereon Bur¬ ming has already become an article of con¬ nett, P. M. Carhart, Charles H. Wheelock, W. siderable traffic with the lower counties of G. Weaver, M. D., Dr. E. Shdlp, Dunning Pennsylvania and the valley of Wyoming Sturdevant, A. C. Montanye, Frank Puckey, contains enough coal for ages to come.” W. E. Doron, Oliver Phillips, Rev. A. B.’ Prom 1810 to 1820 ten or fifteen hundred tons Docker and Rev. J. E. Bone have been super¬ a year were mined in Hanover Township intendents of the school. On. March 2, 1888, In view of the fact that instead of the coal trade beginning in the Maueh Chunk region j a charter was granted to the Fourth’m. e! in 1820 with 865 tons, as given in current Church of Wilkes-Barre. The trustees names «>ai statistics, the trade began in 1807 in I 011 charter were: George B. Kulp, president; Wyoming and increased year bv year until Jonas W. Lear, A. P. Krum, Jesse T. Mor¬ ia 1820 the production was 2,500‘tons. gan, WT. E. Doron, A. C. Montanye, Frank In view of all these facts it is indisputable Puckey, secretary. On April 3, 1888, a deed that Mr. Glnter made only a “local” dlscov- ary and if any monument is erected to him was given by George B. Kulp conveying to v: should be, not for “discovering anthracite | the Fourth M. E. Church the lot on which coal,; but for “discovering it ia Carbon the chapel stands and the lot adjoining. The County.” Wyoming Conference in April, 1888, ap¬ Parsons interested in the history of coal pointed Rev. J. E. Bone associate witl find much valuable matter ia a paraph- pastor of the First Methodist ■at by George B. Kulp, who has lately com- | piled the literature of the subject, Episcopal Church, and he was elected j superintendent of the Fourth M. E. Church Sunday School and Sunday evening preaching services were held. The Wyoming Conference of 1891, at the request of the official board made it a separ¬ fyc ' ///’St A At? ( 'ns, j ate charge with Rev. J. E. Bone a3 its pastor. One of the elect ladies in the First Church, ' Mrs. Henry II. Derr, seeing the need of a larger and more commodious building and fourth \M. J3. one designed as a memorial to a loving and Christian husband, gavo the Fourth M. E. ■ Sketch of the String and Progress of tJle Church land for a church and parsonage at North Wilkes-Barre Church. the corner of North Main street and Kulp av¬ ,™y ®VCDi!lg at ttle last services held enue, and a donation of $5,000 toward the w-,ilhe „°d Fourth M. E. Church in Nor It. erection of a church. The church building and tSonre a Platf°rm m0otinS was held is about completed and will be dedicated to the service of Almighty God on Sunday, Nov¬ ,trfch "““b- ember 27, 1892. From this time forth It will be known as the Derr Memorial Church. The between whaUs_nJw Courtright avenue and officiary of the church is as follows: 'Pastor, Rev. J. E. Bobo. Local preachers. The Wyoming Commemorative Associa¬ Key. John Cox, Kev. T. M. Phillips. Class tion's Animal Meeting—Interesting leaders, Kev. J. E- Bone, Fred A. Lendrum. Trustees, George B. Kulp, president; J. W. Exercises at the Monument—Re* Lear, A. P. Kvum, H. D. Branning, John Cox, calling Historical Events. H. P. Fell, Alexander Lendrum, secretary. Stewards, H. D. Branning, W. Branch, John Cox, H. P. Fell, A. P. Krum, J. W. Lear, One hundred and nine years ago yesterday i Alexander Lendrum, William May, J. E. occurred one of the most brntal massacres that Price, J. Z. Siotery, Fred A. Lendrum, was ever perpetrated on this side of the At¬ James Simons, Joseph Brownbridge and E. lantic ocean. It was the butchery of a num¬ E. Aston. I ber of brave and heroic soldiers, officers and Members of church, 97; probationers, 8. Members of Sunday school, 327. men, all settlers. The scene of this terrible .-—— —- massacre was at Wyoming, situated on the westj shore of the Susquehanna river, eix miles north of Wilkes-Barre. ■ - -• On July 3, 1778, the massacre occurred link.. Pa., Friday, Oct. 26, 1888. and prior to this a fierce fight waged between the settlers on one side, and British tories, f -^the Wilkes-Barre Record, of a recent! half-breed Indians and traitor settlers on the date, givestbefollowingaceountofthesec- other side. The fight and massacre, as near ond decennial census of Luzerne county, as can be ascertained at this late day, took I taken in 1800: There is a rare book in place on the low plateau that stretches from the State Library at Harrisburg, the the foot of a small hillock to the river. “Geographical Descrpition of Pennsyl¬ The British tories and their allies, the half- vania, with the population of 1800, written breed Indians, were led into the peaceful and by Joseph Scott and printed by Robert quiet Wyoming Valley by several settlers Cochran, Philadelphia, in 1806.” Each who had turned traitors. The entire force county is described, as also the principal was escorted south as far as the brow of the towns. The census of 1800 was the hillock, on which the village of Wyoming is second decennial census, and during the now situated, and there ambushed. ten years following 1790 the population The settlers, through the tricks of the of Luzerne county made rapid increase. treacherous traitors, unsuspectingly left Fort ThJfepunty then extended from Nesco- Winte rmute for the purpose of perfecting a p^^ its present southern boundary, treaty. The settlers followed the alleged to the New V ork line. In 1790 Luzerne had 4,893 free inhabitants and 11 slaves. In flag of truce nntil they reached the foot of the 1800 it had 18,821 free and 18 slaves, as hill, when they found themselves surrounded also 33 saw mills, 24 grist mills, two by swarms of half -breed Indians, who rushed hither and thither and dealt death blows to fulling mills and one oil mill. The 1800 all who came within their reach. The 300 population of some of the Luzerne town¬ farmers fought bravely and well, but the ships was as follows: half-breeds were too much for them and Free. Slave. completely overpowered them. Very few of Wilkes-Barre. .832 3 the brave 300 escaped and the plateau and Exeter. .787 Kingston. .752 hillside were virtually dyed in human blood, Nescopeck. .415 while wounded and dead were to be fonnd Newport__. .401 throughout the woodland. Nicholson. .668 1 The entire valley was devastated. Months Pittston. .565 1 afterwards the bodies of the brave settlers, Plymouth. .745 1 who had fallen in the massacre, were buried. Hanover. .612 1 in one grave on the brow of the hill and very Huntington. .721 1 near the scene of the engagement that forms Wilkes-Barre is described as having one of the saddest and bloodiest of pages In about 50 houses, a court house and jail. American history. A magnificent granite monument was erected over the grave some years ago and it fJjtittiS.lp.eSlk *♦ was one of the most fitting tributes ever ac¬ complished. The monument is located al¬ EVERY MORNING. most in the center of about two acres of land, which has been purchased and is kept in good MONDAY::::::::::::::::::::::::: JULY 2 trim by the Wyoming Commemorative Asso¬ ciation, which was organized ten years, to annually commemorate the event in an ap¬ WYOMING MASSACRE. propriate manner. What a change since 1778 ! What a glo¬ OBSERVING ITS ONE HUNDRED AND rious change ! Compare the scenes of 1778 with those of 1887, dear reader, and note the NINTH ANNIVERSARY vast difference. Saturday being the 109th anniversary the event was properly observed Saturday by the 21

Wyoming Commemorative Association. Dnnng the forenoon about sixty patriotic with patriotism, assemble to commemorate ladies and gentlemen gathered about the the sad event, than see thousands of people monument, at Wyoming, although gather together to see some brutal, disgrace¬ the mercury was hovering about ful slugging match, or base ball game. He ln the neighborhood of 100 laid considerable stress on the fact that pub¬ degrees. The monument was neatly decor¬ lic halls could be rented to hold slugging, ated with flags and flowers. An awning had and thousands of people would pay a large been erected to accommodate the speakers, price of admission to see the brutal match. and the remainder of the people eagerly Secretary Johnson read a letter from Dr. sought the shadow of the monument and the Hollister, regretting that he was no longer low-branched trees. able to attend the meetings, on account of Col. Charles Dorrance, of Kingston, the paralysis. President of the Association, presided. He The assemblage sang “America” and then was the oldest person in attendance, being 82 three hearty cheers were given for Dr. Dor¬ years of age—the next oldest being Capt. rance, the able and venerable president, after Dennis, of Wilkes-Barre, who is still hale which the members of the Association re¬ and hearty at 76, Capt. Calvin Parsons, of paired to Col. Harry Laycock’a hotel, where Parsons, came in as third oldest. Alderman the annual dinner was served. Such a din¬ Wesley Johnson, of this city, the Secretary ner! It was all and even more than any of the Association, occupied his position in a h«»!»a being wish for, All the d*Ik«v creditable manner. cies were tastily served, and all greatly Among the audience we noticed bucIi per¬ i enjoyed the same. Col. Laycock was ten¬ sons as Hon. Steuben Jenkins, Payne Pette- dered a hearty vote of thanks. bone, Dr. Harry Hakes, Col. Oliver Parsons, The dinner was over at about 2 p. m., and Col. Harry Laycock, Gen. E. L. Dana, Dr. I about one hour was spent in relating past F. C. Johnson and Mrs. Judge Pfouts. All recollections of the good old days of yore, the oldest families of Wyoming Valley were ! and p ProTed a most pleasant feature, represented. i,, The meeting ’ was one of the most enjoya¬ Col. Dorrance made an appropriate address. ble so far held, and the exercises were inter¬ The Colonel was never more eloquent or esting and instructive. spoke better. Here and there in the borough of Wyoming Capt. Parsons next offered up a fervent the stars and stripes fluttered in the breeze? prayer, after which the assemblage sang “Old A monster flag decorated the roof of CoL Hundred.” Laycock s Hotel. At Forty Fort a few flags W. A. Wilcox, of Wyoming, a son-in-law were hoisted. The decorations were appro- of Hon. Steuben Jenkins and a prominent pnate. rr lawyer of the Lackawanna County Bar, made the address of the day. He read a paper on Yankee—pennamite. j “The Flight of the Fugitives. ” The subject Egle and Steuben jenUln, on was an entire new feature and one never be¬ I Mutaacre of 1763. * fore treated upon. It did not deal with the [ Editor Record: Too much has massacre or battle in any way, but graphic¬ | made of the matter already, but I woo' oeen ally depicted the sufferings of the few that escaped, on their long and weary journevs to add stiff a tew words to whatT ld libe lover mountains and through valleys, on their (Said and printed regarding the mr *as been way to the nearest settlement The paper ISth October, 1763, since Dr. Egl ®a3re of also paid the women a high tribute and told of July 3, 1889. ’ 6 A address of their hardships, as they fled from the val¬ Dr. Egle’s address was Inter - „ ley after the battle, with their babes and few cate the Pennamites frr to vindi- household goods. The paper was excellent eharges of cruelty and ' f1 tho serlous throughout. Attorney Wilcox was compli¬ which the Connecticut ^Uman warfare mented on all sides for the well-prepared and against them, and he „ peoPle bad made well-delivered address and a unanimous vote kindlier judgment o' Z, Jrged a juster and of thanks was tendered him. descendants of the w Penuamites by the Gen. E. L. Dana made one of his usual i Mr. Jenkins’s 'Wyoming Yankees, patriotic speeches that found its way to the he would bo ?' XlhTA}}°,n was that although hearts of his listeners. He paid a neat com¬ namitea as ^ well of the Pen- pliment to the wives and mothers He held would not * ®e desired, the evidence i that great things were not alone done in bat¬ tle, and that there were other sufferings and after th'd and ln effect so said hardships besides being shot in battle, and Was o D ... re3S* suggesting that it the wives, mothc rs, sisters and sweethearts Dro- i u 0SSlb e the massaere of 1763 was often come ln for a great share of it. The Elder, ar86d t0 ^ f°rCeS under 01aytou battle’s deadly work is felt in many house¬ holds and homes and here is where the women come m for their share of the hardships and sufferings, and they generally bear up like the bravest of warriors. Payne Pettebone, of Wyoming, made some very appropriate remarks and they were well fact to Dr. e“ le in tha coai“uuicate the 1889, reserving °f December 25. P*'-. Parry Hakes, of this city, now took at our next meetw X t0 make 11 public he intendedZsen?inlt,henm0Ilumellt- Aad » -He.made a g00d addresa that tain exnlZS „ the PaPer with cer- Z“P 11 Patn°tism. He remarked that he would rather see forty or fifty people, filled behadchang^ hlsnvt«wmm011?’ for> whUe • not abanUnited States Army, enough, seems harsh and somewhat deroga¬ to be separated from his family; espeeially tory, and while I do not desire to make any during the Seminole War in Florida and the correction, I think a more full notice of this Mexican War. Eliza Wright was a con¬ family would be only fair. Some of the temporary of Debora Slocum Chahoon, Abi grandchildren of Amasa Jones have attained Slocum Butler, Cornelia Richards Butler, and fair places in the world, and might have cor¬ both she and her family were well known to rected, or written something of the kind I Wilkes-Barreans forty years ago. Her hus¬ send herewith, had they seen the Record.” band, Joseph J. B. Wright, bom iu Wilkes- Editoe Histobical Recobd:—As supple¬ Barre in 1800, held a commission as surgeon mentary to the historical notice of Amasa in the United States Army, and the family re¬ Jones (vide Yol. 1, No. 7, Page 113), I beg to tained their residence in Wilkes-Barre until / Sf- Mrs- ,WrlSht died July 6, 1854, at Jeffer- ' eon Barracks, Mo., of Asiatic cholera. ' like C. F. Hill, ever thinks of the old : The family of Atnasa Jones were all very associations. The young people go to 'devout Presbyterians and regular attendants ^pon the old Presbyterian Church and the Landmesser’s to picnic and drink and ministrations of the Bev. John Dorrance. to McNeal’s for pretty near the same (Mrs. Elizabeth Huntington Jones especially was known far and wide in that day Pfor her purpose. pure and saintly life. She died April 16, 1843. The old hotels along the line w*ere the J. p. w. | scenes of some lively affairs in the days gone by. The history of staging in j Pennsylvania would practically be told in a history of one of the old hotels like those at Beaver Meadow, j Back in 1804 the first work seems to 1 have been done on Broad street wheD jthe workmen began building the old j Berwick turnpike. After that stages ran regularly between Wilkes-Barre STAGE CpflDAYS {and Easton carrying rpail and passen¬ gers. It is claimed that Jacob Drunjheller kept the first tavern in Hazleton. No- Some of the Old Landmarks (body knows in what year ne kept the " and Old hotel, the license records not being available that far back. One of the oldest hotels in this part of the State is the one at Neecopecb HOTELS AND HOUSES , better known as the Eothermel Hotel. Tn this hotel was born P. F. Eother¬ mel the famous painter who painted the “Battle of Gettysburg” now in pos¬ In the Days When The Country was Young [and session of the state and whieh is beyond There Were no Railroads and Private doubt one of the best examples of mod¬ ern figure painting. Of course Eother¬ Cars. mel didn’t get his art inspiration there any more than you or I could grow poetical over the farm scenery and farm It seems like going far back, doesn’t people in the Old Homestead. The it, to think of the old days when the picture in this number is a pretty good stage coach rattled down the old Le¬ illustration and it shows accurately high and Susquehanna turnpike over what the old hotels looked like. They which the Lehigh Traction Co.’s cars were lively places when the stage drove will buzz along merrily. up just as .the depot at Stockton Yet it isn’t so loDg ago. The sign Weatherly or Mahanoy City is always with the rates of fare still hangs on the crowded when the train comes in. front of the old toll house up above the The stage driver or his hospital. Everything was charged for passengers brought news from the* out except the foot passenger. He went side world.and to the lounger in the free then as now. Then too, many of bar-room am invitation to drink. Th» the old stage drivers are living. There “tap room” of the old dayswasn’tmucb is Edward Littlelon, who “drove stage” different from the plain saloon of to-daj between Hazleton and Easton before only it didn’t smell quite as badly and the war and Ed. Dreher. liquor selling hadn’t grown to be a pro The old taverns still stand along the fession or separate business as it i> way, places like Landmesser’s and Me- today. Then it was only in a lodging Neal’s, but nobody, upless its a man house that you could buy drink. 24

bound to be in the swim. The old toll house up.at the hospita' The naval review drew the swell to is a very old. structure having be*D Vew York this week. It was the affair built in the early days. Landmesser t of the week. and McNiel’s are both old places. Tht one at Beaver Meadow is very old toi J. H. Case, well known here, has been appointed postmaster at Riverside, It was where the pioneers of the regioi near Danvil'e. put up. In this place Ario Pardet boarded when he came to the country Mrs. T. W. Hart, cf Ashley, is visit¬ and all the coal operators stayed in ing here. J. E, Roderick and J. W. Clark wen there. to New ufork on Thursday. POLITICAL. Frank MeBugh and Patrick Murray' are back from New York, where they; Matters of Interest to Heeler and Patriot. went on Wednesday. Senator Kime went to New York! There are 183,488 people in the ser with the Pennsylvania State Senate on' vice of the government. Of these 112,- Wednesday. A tug was provided for; 800 are in the postal department while ihe Senators by a prominent Pniladel-j 70,688 are in the other branches. Five phian. thousand owe their appointment to the Edward Roderick is home from col- j President. There are sixty-five appoint lege, ments in the diplomatic service. There Mrs. Bo E. Youngman has gone to! are 260 consuls. Waukeegan, Wisconsin. There are now on file 11,000 applica¬ “The Old Homestead” drew a “large I tions for consulships. Of this numbet and appreciative” audience and the society people turned out in force. 41 are from the coal regions of Penn W. J. Hoagland is quietly receiving -lyania. From the coal regions there the congratulations of his many friends ar6 917 applications for postcfflces. on his wedding. Think of it. The Philadelphia Clover club is being1 Thomas Smith will be the Republican torn out by the New York papers. Its candidate from this Bection for com¬ wit is of the barroom bum order. missioner. Mr. Smith has made an A number of Hazleton people are in¬ honest official. He has worked hard vesting in seaside lots with the expteta- for the county and deserves re-election, tion of building summer cottages. tie will be elected, too. Miss Elizabeth Reese, of Hazleton, j Christ Martin is mentioned as a will be married to John C. Rinebach, Democratic candidate for commissioner. of Jeanesville. Nothing has been heard from Hines’ Tnere is an epidemic of missing men man Conniff yet about his appointment just now. The spring is always a bad as revenue collector. ume for that sort of thing. The delegate from this section is The printers of Hazleton will hold a likely to be pledged to Archbald for picnic in J une. Judge. Loyalty to the coal region de¬ The Glen Summit Hotel will open on mands that. June 20th. Postmaster General BisBeil will be one of the guests in August. . SOCIETY. fhe General is afiaid to come before mat fearing Congressman Hines’ gmg, Through the Region- if followers would make life unbear-J tble. Down around Easton they have be¬ R. H. Wright, Esq., will be home gan calling farm houses by such names from Harrisburg next week where he] as “Ravenecioft.” We presume it ittended the commencement of the' won’t be long before the houses of the Keeley institute. festive Hun and Hike at Audenried Miss Maude Harter, who is attending and Tresckow wid be called “Wynne- i he Bloomsburg State Narmal School, wood,” “Rhyndhurst,” or “Foxcroft,”

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The swell English custom of publish¬ Matt Burger, of Nuremberg, aged ing a liet of wedding presents and the 85, will be married to Mrs.Greensmith, lames of the donors is an old one in aged 89, next week. Love comes to all Hazleton. they say, but it came very near skip¬ Three years ago Miss Bessie Myers, of ping this pair. Berwick, heard that she could get $300 The Birdsboro Chataqua occasionally for 1,000,000 canceled postage stamps, meets over a saloon. •ihe conceived the idea of making the An insurance agent was put out of a collection. She plagued every merchant dance at Shenandoah,they didn’t want m the region. She got the ministers him Oil account of his profession. m the towns around to ask the business men for their stamps. The whole re- A colored cake-walk is promised by 3'211 was canvassed. The newspaper the colored population of town. ofhces were importuned. Every small A Shamokin girl was recommended boy was pressed into service. She be to a position in a church choir on ac¬ came known as the “stamp nuisance.” count of her “lovely jealous disposi The details of the plan of campaign tion.” were minute and exasperating. The John R Leisenring went to the na¬ people wondered where the boys and val review with a party of Mauch girls got the idea, but it all seemed to Chunkers. come from Miss Myers of Berwick. The disappearance of John A. Latham She obtained a number by giving of Mahanoy City is still a mystery. 'stamp” parties, to which all the in¬ There was no entertainment of the Y. ■ vited gue«ts were expected to bring M. C. A. or the Good Templers com stamps. The labor of soakmg, clean plete without John. He was a “recit- ing and counting was enormous. They ir” one of the young men who are al are now done up in packages ready for /ays called upon to recite, “The boy shipment, but unfortunately for Mies itood on the burning deck,” “Asleep Myers she cannot find a purchaser, so }t the Switch,” or “Rather,Dear Fath¬ that after all her labors may have been in vain. er Come Home!” That was his only ault. But the reciter has much to There were no swell weddings in the >rgive and much to be forgiven. It if coal region this week. Bjot always his fault that he recites |J[be blame can be placed on the audi- epee which is equally guilty. X knew a man once—the child of poor, bu> honest parents—who is now an elocu¬ tionist of standing—standing outside a ARE OFTEN IN PRINT! dime museum and barking under tin lithograph of the snake charmer. 1 can remember him now as he used to sneak into the coal shanty. We could How They Get in, How Often They are in and hear him going over “On Linden When Who They Are! the teun was Low” and “Curfew.” Ht kept at it. W hen he got a little olde) he went the rounds giving his recita¬ tions before the local temperance so Have you ever stopped to think or to cieties and posts. Then he went awaj j inquire how it is that some names turn and I heard that he had tried a recna tion with a minBtrel show and that tht up in public print more than others? scenery was badly damaged. For sev¬ If you have ever noticed the names1 eral years I didn’t hear of him but at of people whose every movement is last 1 met him before the Dime, iilocu chronicled who can’t go to Stockton, tion had done its deadly work. He it now marching through Georgia, I sup without having the papers say, “the pose. genial Mr. Tiresome went to Harleigh” Now there is William Badge, of Stock or that “Mr. Brown transacted business ton. He is a “.Professor” now anoi at Pottsville yesterkay,”you must have> sings “My Lover is the Man in tht Moon” with so much effect that I am insensibly, perhaps, wondered how itj glad there are no bricks in the moon was that the newspaper man came to! And Charley J. Fey—“Would be a consider them so important. Lord’ ’—Charley has the dramatic idea There is a something about type that bad. He has cnosen the drama as hit makes a name shine out strong and profession. He will produce his plaj shortly in Hazle Hall. The star u bold whether the type be used for ridi¬ Charley’s play, a Miss Anna Meitrott, cule or praise. Few country papers who looks well in the play. ridicule a man, the tendency being to There are ever so many amatuer praise if anything. For one word of actors in this region. I am told that ■ sarca«m or of ridicule there are a mil¬ there are seventy girls in Hazleton who are stage struck but who have better lion words of praise. We venture to sense than to run away. -say, too, that half the praise is unwar¬ ranted. Kaiser and Pope have come to un¬ I have, myself, “written-up” many! derstand each other so far as personal men as “enterprising and progressive! qualities go to make rulers agreeable, citizens,” when they were old sticks in ut when it comes to practice them the mud and drawbacks to the town, il le suavity ends. Indeed, neither sov- have written up the daughters of Borne reigo, he at the head of the German men as “beautiful and accomplished,” jmpire, and he swaying the Catholic world with absolute control, dares to while I knew they were at once ugly yield an inch to the other on questions and vulgar. I have also called men vital to the system of rule and religion “genial” and “jovial,” when I know each embodies. This shows that no they beat their wives and were only matter what the smiles and the courtes¬ happy when “getting-off” smutty jokes ies bestowed upon and granted to each other in a social way, neither has made in a bar-room. I am older now anid a point at the expense of the other shy of praise although I occassionally j and this is European politics managed find circumstances arise that make me! on both sides by adroit diplomatists. give praise where I should, in reality^ censure. The readers of the Hazleton papers:

T will recognize the names in this article although I am sure that there are hun¬ Hazleton People Whose dreds who like me wouldn’t know their faces. You have noticed perhaps Names the people hereinafter" mentionea Lr-Jp1'11' not go to Freelandor change their mind without one of the papers mentioning the fact in the personal column, and 1 | came to to town was B. Norris Wil- venture to say that during their brief iiams, of Conyngham. Since I car % ■■'tay on earth they have had more remember I don’t thi»^ k-o camp newspaper notices than the best paying to town that ho uiau c gee a ^per- advertiser in the coal region. ° sonal.” He is now in Europe. The I beg to call a few instances. Here practice of the prints drove him into is William Hitchins, of Audenried, such a state of mind as to leave but two whom I not the pleasure of knowning. alternatives—stay at home or escape to There is not a week passes but what we Europe. He chose the Jat er. see his name in print and I find— Another favorite mark for the re¬ blessed be statistics for the stories they porters is “Eddie Crampsey.” Every tell—that in twe years the Sentinel has constant reader and subscriber muss / printed just 1927 lines. This does not have read about Crampsey—though I include any poem. am sure there are many who don’i At wholesale rates with ten off for know Cramp3ey and wouldn’t know cash this would make a cost of $192.70 him in spite of the innumerable “briefs” about as much as some of the big ad¬ and -‘personals” he has received since vertisers pay to one paper in a year. he began “keeping tavern” at Shepp- Then there is Mr. “Gyps” Gallagher ton. Everybody knows Gyps of Leviston. A prominent man who can’t come to tie’s all right- He is also well ad¬ town without getting in print is H. M vertised as Danas Sarsaparilla. He has Neale, of Upper Lehigh. He is a doc¬ 2900 lines to his credit, and practically tor and cannot advertise without rupt¬ breaks the record. He had long runs uring a code but he comes to the Cen of a column at a time. The other trai Hotel for dinner, goes back to his papers treated him wLh equal liberality dreary Upper Lehigh life> and just so and consequently he is one of the best surely as be comes so surelv do we reac advertised men in the region there that “i r. H. M. Neale was in town to being localites such as Leviston, Cole- day.” I suppose it must be tiresomi • Irame and Centstown where the $3 to the doctor. ith GyfV8 Un^nown *n comparison This incomplete and meagre array of famous names could not but include Pat Early. A description of Patrick is unnecessary and we can merely say that . Broken the middle age record, _ _ At the Sunday School in the afternoon ^having a score of 140 inches printed in special services were held and the pro¬ one week agaiDSt a record of 119 made by Gyps Gallagher in an alleged contest gramme given in Saturday’s GazaTTis.was with a hear and several snakes. successfully carried out. Prof. W. I. Hibbs Dr. Casselberry was far ahead in and Mr Parke both gave eloquent addres es, H*zleton until recfntly when Julius and all of those taking part did themselves Wolf and Mathew Long pushed him and the school credit. hard and the doctor, without whom no A large audience gathered in the West social function could succeed, is now Side church at 7:30 o’clock. Rev. T. W allowing the yonDger set to do the Swan presided, and after an opening an¬ work and get the newspaper notices them by the choir, under the leadership of; Julius and Matthew figure indifferent W. L. McDongall, Mr. Swan gave a very lights than the doctor—quite naturally. Mr Long carries the belt for com¬ pleasant address welcoming, in the name of munications in the past year, the the West Pittston church, Mr. Parke and championship having heretofore been his congregation. He spoke, at length, of held by Hon. E. P. Kisner who tripled the pleasant relations existing between the up as “Taxpayer,” “Broad Street” and two churches, of how harmoniously they “Good Democrat ” as the occasion de¬ worked together, of the union between manded, but who has lost his grip in them in spirit and purpose. He spoke of comparison to the vigorous Matthew the deep hold upon the hearts of the Matthew Long. people possessed by Dr. Parke, their old On the fema’e side a young lady from Silver Brook leads the list. Compari¬ pastor, and of how, at lea-t once a year, sons even of the newspaper personals of ■ill his spiritual children delighted to come the local fair sex would he odious as together and do him honor. Of Mr. Parke > comparisons are to say nothing of bein himself, Mr. Swan spoke in the highest ungallant. terms and closed his remarks with a grace- i ful tribute to Mr. Parke’s work and church | After another anthem by the choir. Rev Vlr. Wisely,of the Langcliffe church, spoke From,. on behalf of that congregation. Mr. j Wisely’s address was an eloquent tribute to Mr. Parke and his work in Pittston, and he said “that while he had not been long [ in the work of the gospel ministry, such & Date, FL..../o£^/ /ft93 life and work, as had been accomplished by Mr. Parke, was an inspiration to any young man beginning his ministry.” Mr. HISTORICAL SERMON. Wisely is now in charge of the Langeliffe- church and in the absence of the pastor, qu PREACHED BY W^ARKE YESTERDAY Vlr. Makely, is doing a grand work in that P MORNING. deld. Mr. rfwan next introduced Mr. Parke, The Forty-Ninth Anniversary of His who spoke in a very feeling manner qf the Pastorate of the First Presbyter¬ kindnass of all his friends and qf how ian Church—Union Service of humiliated he was by this unstinted prai.s- the East and. West Side Presbyterians. of his friends. He spoke of his ealiy min The forty-ninth anniversary Dr. Lstry and of how few are now left qf those i Parke’s pastorate over the Pittston Presby¬ who were here wherj he came here forty - terian church was duly celebrated yester¬ nine years ago; that all he had tried to dp; day. A large congregation gathered at ■ luring all these years was simply to preach the morning service in the Broad Street the simple gospel of the Lord Jesus Presbyterian church, when Dr. Parke Christ, and so far as he had had any suc- preached an historical sermon of great in¬ :ess in his work, it was due to the bk:s-| terest. The venerable doctor spoke in a ing of God on this instrumentality, that clear and impressive manner, and his dis¬ through the foolishness of preaching God course was listened to with close attention. is pleased to save men. He said that if' There was special music by the choir his life was spared for anothejr year he; under the leadership of M. L. Perrin. At would celebrate his j ubilee, agd tty at then the close of the morning service many re¬ he wou!4 retire Iron} the psptorate and let. mained to shake hands with Mr. and Mrs. a younger man take up hi;J bgrdep. He Parke, and congratulate them on this their forty-ninth anniversary. nest, fidltereth over her young, epreadth thanked his friends for all their life-long abroad her wiDgs, taketh them, bearth kindness to him and his family. them on her wings; so the Lord alone did Hon. Theodore Strong, on behalf of the lead him and there was no strange God Vest Pittston church, and Mr. Thomas with him.” Paul did not hesitate when the Vtonie, on behalf of the Pittston church, (occasion called for it, to speak of his own ' both spoke of Mr. Parke’s life and work in experience as a Christian man and a Chris¬ | this community and both bore testimony to tian worker, of his joys and his sorrows, the high regard had foy Mr. Parke, not only his hopes and his fears, his trials and his i !>y the Presjiyterjang of tjia town, but also temptations, his disappointments and i>y the eutire population Th§y g^oke of his victories, of his labors and his pros¬ i the impression that Mr. Parke has made pective reward. This he did, not to glorify on this whole section of country and what himself, but for the encouragem. nt of be¬ a power fof righteousness and truth his lievers and for the glory of God. whole life and charade* fyag been. The usnal reception given by Mr. anfl PERSONAL HISTORY. Mrs. Parke is omitted Ihis year owing to I need not speak of my life anticedent to the that the Pittston Presbyterian coming here, when my life first touched 19 gj time undergoing your lives; I will only say that I had when a boy the loving care of Christian parents, iv. r.,» Sf ..... , „ „ , "“-Uofis tailed at, and that when seventeen years old; I con¬ their friends of 8.11 dsnoniiu. ^ ^ fessed the Lord Jesus Christ asmy Saviour. their borne during the day and evening My decision to study for the ministry was congratulate the venerable Doctor and bis not muds hastily, I was graduated from jestimable wife and wish them many more college }n the fall of 1840, befnpe I was years of health and happiness. twenty, and after spending a year at home r I entered the Theological Seminary at [ Following is the sermon preached by Dr, Princeton, N. J , from which I was grad¬ Parke yesterday morning; uated in the spring of 1844, a few weeks j Dent. 32:7, “Remember ihe days of old, before coming to Pittston. jconsider the years of many generations; HOW I CAME HERE. ask thy father and he will shew thee; thy I came here without any thought of elders and they will tell thee.” making this my home, “led by a way I It has been my habit in recent years, on knew not.” The circumstances in which I occasions of this kind, to simply preach a came were these; I was near the end of gospel sermon, with very little reference to my theological studies in the Seminary, our own personal work. In view of the fact when John W. Sterling, a class mate and a that we expect this to be our last anniver¬ tutor in Princeton college, came to my sary service before the close of my min¬ room with a letter in his hand from the istry among you, I have thought it best to Rev. Dr. Dorrance, of Wilkesbarre, .asking be more personal in what I have to say of him to come, after his graduation, to our relations and our associated work. Lackawanna \ allay to engage in much There are occasions, and this we believe needed missionary work. He wanted to is one of them, when it is wise to look back accept the situation, but being a tutor in on life and to make note of God’s.dealings jcollegp, he could not leave for three with us as a basis of our thanksgiving to months. He wished me to take the place Almighty God. Thus David says, in the ;until he was ready to leave college. I had ; 103d Psalm: “Bless the Lord, O My Soul, no “entangling alliances,” and after con¬ and all that is Within Me? Bless His Holy ferring with Dr. Alexander, I decided to Name, Bless the Lord O My Soukand For¬ come here. I went home and my father get not all His Benefits.” The Passover was gave me a horse and saddle, and after a a memorial of deliverance from Egyptian horse-back Tide of near two hundred miles j bondage, not to be forgotten. The patri¬ I reached Wilkesbarre on the Saturday ( archs and prophets in their worship con¬ preceding the first Sabbath of June, 1884. / tinually make mention, with great particu¬ On the following Monday I came to Pitts- { larity, of the goodness of God to them and ton, and on the second Sabbath of June, j to Israel whom he led as a flpck. The 1844, preached for the first time in Pitts- ( song of Moses, from which the text is J ton, in a small school house that stood j taken, in its entirety, voices the spirit that near Melaine chapel, in North Pittston. breathes in all the history of the pious WHAT I FOUND IN PITTSTON. Israelites. “As an Eagle stirreth up her uere without any call from thej of 18|6, and Mr. Strong’s Sabbath school! ople. They were iu no condition to call] moved into the new church. A call for my any one. The understanding was that they j services pastor was then made out and I| would do what they could for my support was ordained and installed as pastor of the and that the board of Domestic Miss’on s church of Lspkawanna. Why not tbe would pay me at the rate of one hundred church of Pittston ? Bepanse Lackawanna; dollars a .year. I found here a Sabbath was the name of the church. It was sub¬ school conducted by Hon. Theodore Strong sequently changed to that of Pittston, as and a preaching ser\ Ice once in two weeks, j ipore appropriate. The second sanctuary conducted by Elder Mott, a Baptist preacher opened for service iu Fittsfon was who resided in Hyde Park. Beyond this erected by the Welsh Congrega there was no religious service in Pitts ton lionalists, on Pine street. The| ofany kind. There wasa Presbyterian church second Presbylerian chinch erected on organization in the Lackawanna Valley, uiy paisgjqn field,, was in laylurviile, This it had been effected two years previously wag erected in 18-18. in Scr^uiop a ha’j and it was composed of those attached to was fitted up Service which answered the Presbyterian church residing in Provi¬ dence, Hyde Park, Scranton, Taylorville, tpe purpose until the house in tlie Pittston and the Plains—in all, uot more First Presbyterian gpngregatioa now wor¬ than thirty. In Pittston there were only ships was built. In Neyytqn $ Ifouse of three members of the Presbyterian church. Worship w#9 erected in 18^0 and the Bev. In Scranton there were about the same Jonathan Osmoqd WS? jnyited to take that number. The most of those composing this part of the mission. Lackawanna church resided near Taylor-; GOJNO Olrf. ville, then known as the “Allierton neigh¬ The first church organized from the borhood.” The church had no house of Pittston church was the First church of worship, and no provision for sustaining Scranton. It was organized in 1848 with, the ordinances of God’s house. Mr I think, not to exceed a score of members, I Elisha Atherton, who, while he lived, was but inside of a year the church was pre-i an earnest supporter of the church, in¬ pared to call a minister for all his time vited me to make my home with him until without asking aid from the Board of Mis! arrangements could be made by the church * sions. The Rev. I. D. Mitchell was called to take c.ire of me. This invitation in¬ and settled as pastor of said -church- This j cluded my horse also. I was expected to was a loss to the Pittston church of pecuni¬ preach once in two weeks in Pittston and ary strength, but it greatly simplified my as often in Scranton. Then 1 was expected work and diminished my missionary ter to preach in Providence, and Hyde Park, ritory. The ne$t church organized from and Taylorvilje, and the Plains, and in the Pittston church wa3 the present flour¬ Newton, and Abington, as often as I could ishing church at Avoe i. It took from us b find it convenient to do so. sone twenty-five Christian workers and Tflfi FOIST CHURCH BUILT. now has a membership of between, four | The outlook was certainly wide enougn, and five hundred. The last swarm th**’ ' but jt was not particularly encouraging. went out from this old hive was the church The people received me kindly and at once! of West Pittston. Tais exodus we felt. It i moved in the matter of building a oanctu- took a large share of the working force of '. ary. There was not one on my whole field, the church, including four of our elders— i The only sanctuary of any kind on the. in all, one hundred and twenty members. .' field was a small Methodist chapel in This division of oar church was, so far as 1 Scranton. There had been a Baptist [ know, entirely friendly, and it was a giv¬ [ church organization in Pittston during the ing on our part that did not impoverish, 1 last century, possibly the oldest church or- but enriched. ganization iti the valley, and a Methodist ' j PHENOMlNAL GROWTH. chu ch organisation near Old Forge, as The growth of the Presbyterian church early as 1820, but neither the Baptists nor; ou the field to which I came forty-nine the Methodists attempted, so far as appears, years ago—and tho same is true pf the to build a house of worship. It was deter¬ other Christian churches of the valley— mined by the Presbyterians very soon after has been phenominal. In and immediately I came, to build, or attempt to build, a around Scranton where there has been the) church in Pittston. The work wf s com¬ most rapid growth of population, we havel pleted and the house dedicated in the Fall now eight Presbyterian church organiza-f tions, when in 1844 we did not have one, jsionary bands are doing efficient work, and among them are some of the strongest has under its care the mission in Non, churches in the State. In Taylorville ar¬ !Pittston, Duryea, Taylorville and Iiike. - rangements are being made^for the organ" I man, and iu connection with West- Pitts¬ ization of a new church, and for regular ton church, is sustaining an Italian mis¬ Sabbath services in connection with the sion. ■ - ; .

mission at Duryea. During this month the WORKING IN' HASatbNY’.l committee of Presbytery expects to organ¬ j So far a8 we know, f beHM^'-wh' aW-at ize a new church at Moosie from the church peace among ourselves and wifh'Oii’r breth¬ of Langcliffe, with two hundred mem-. ren of other churches. We have had iu 1 bers,which, with the mission at Drakes, our history occasion to exercise discipline will employ a minister. in our church, but in the forty-nine years WORK ^tOT FINISHED. of our association we have never had a There is still much land to be possessed. church trial. Those who have gone astray | Just here, in and around Pittston, there have been ready to confess their faults, are many sheaves to be gathered for the and, I trust, to forsake them. Personally | master. “The harvest is great but the I have received from this people laborers are few.” Those who laid'founda only kindness, and the same is true, of mv tions here forty-nine years ago, are for the family. And our prayer for you is the j most part genie, but their work g>>es or prayer of Paul for Israel, “that yon may land increases. Those who have it in chargi he .saved ” We are watching and waiting now will die, bufTtheir work will go on un¬ If A the gracious influences pf, the ..Spirit til the earth shall be filled with the know¬ ituat renews and sanctifies' and"witKouf ledge of the Lord. which Paul and Apollos may well plant NOT METHODICAL IN WORK. and water in vain. ‘ Ui

Personally I am not methodical, as HAVE WE DONE WH'A!t*W"H'b(4Et.D'»- > . many of you know, in my work. I have 1 It is very pleasant for~~me~to be able not taken note on .paper of everything I J honestly and truth fully "tospeak as » have done, and ^ a result I cannot tell lone of the people with whom' I'Kiave ’fivett you how many sermons I have preached in and labored .all these years. Bat ' can we the forty-nine years I have been among you. |say, any of ns, “we have done what we But in all these years I have very rarely could?” in the way of giving of our sub¬ been out of the pulpit and I have seldom stance to the Lord, in sustaining the ordi¬ preached less then two sermons on the nances of God’s house by ogr presence, in Sabbath. I cannot tell you how many manifesting the spirit of Christ, in seeking prayer meetings I have attended, how to promote Christ’s Kingdom in our own many addresses I have made, how many hearts and in the world. Only God knows pastoral visits I have paid, nor how fully the selfishness q,nd pride and ^yorldli- many funerals I have attended. I have ness that are in our hearts and that have simply aimed to do from day to day what mingled with our best service. I have been called to lo. I have kept a For what we have been able to do for the marriage record,because up to the time the honor of our Master in the harvest field in present license law was enacted their was which we have been called to work, we no provision for making a public record of would give God all the glory; and in view maniages, and the frequent calls for my of our shortcomings we would say: “God marriage record attests the value of such | merciful to us dinners.” a record. This record wiU.^pw that I LOOFTNG FORWARD. have performed between seven and eight If this is a suitable occasion for looking hundred marriages. R)mV(„ : : back over the way we have come and for THE PAST FEW YEARS. „ Ko O'J reviewing our work, it is also a suitable While this church has accomplished a time for looking forward, and with Joshua good work in the past - we verily believe' .resolving “to serve the Lord.” If we have that the past few \,us. have been the best j with the help of God, done good work in in her history, its services have never (the past, we may, with our experience, do been better attended than they are now, j better work in time to come. We are re¬ its membership, notwithstanding > its d>y minded by this anniversary of the fact that pletion by death and dismissals and new the shadows lengthen and that the day is organ nations, was never larger than it j* far spent. Let' us work wLiie the day now. Its Sabbath school numbers over 500.,, lasts, for the night cometh when no man Its Christian Endeavor society and ftwtnisr can work. I

brush from the spot selected for the open ! ing, and in May, 1831, the work of sinkingi From,.^ the shaft was began. The e were not (he days of steam dill's and electric battens ■:1 (22Z&Z&1. "?'/ I the work of drilling was done entirely by hand, a gin. operated by tv¥0 horses, being used to hold the rock to the surface. Forj Date k<^L/ /6ry s I eight mouths the work went on. M, ehanics were scarce,-and the owners themselves! ~ A HIST(|RJC COLLIERY. ■ were obl'ged to turn iu and do a large sharej of the manual labor. Iney expected toj :ue Old Tompkins Shaft, Opener' strike the four m-foot velu by sink mg Nearly Half a Century Apco. 150 feet, hut were agree tbly surpris d to To the ordinary reader, perhaps, tl: reach it at a depth of 180 feet. Fight K.ef news item piloted in 'he Qa'- 'JiiX a here it might be worth while to note that aw days ago, telling of the desman* ring ol a short time after the sinking of the shaft he old Tompkins breaker, meant no mare vvas completed the rock that had been ;han any other two or three line note; bn taken out wrs towed up the river on an to not a few of our readers, not alone in £- ucient ark aud used in liprappiug the this neighborhood, but also in neatly every ■piers of the first budge eft cted across the State in the Union, those few line3 had a fiver here, at the point where the Ferry meaning far deeper than others suBbe'cted. Fr idge now stands. They told of the tearing apart of an old At the oufcet no breaker was bu:it. At and true tTtfncL—-true because the friend¬ that time coal breakers were unknown, ship Was formed in boyhood, when the coal being sbippe 1 in lump. A head'nouse, conditions are right for the deep planting just b'gir enough to permit the floor of thej of the seed. Among these old mine work¬ carriage to be hoisted level w ith the surface, ers, the mere mention of the name of the several large chn's-s used to store the coali old breaker that is soon to pass out of ex- just as it was brought from the mine and ’-.fence re rails a flood of recollections. to load the fuel into the cana1 boa 3 that Perhaps the-history of this old colliery is a p cd close by, together with the smari history of their own lives. In many inskin engine and boiler houses, composed the ces, ench is the case; and it is with a heaVy entire plaut. From t: ;s humble beginning hear t that they view the old place go tho grew the coPiery that for several dtoad* way of all earthly things. And it is not. was the principal soui.e of employment , only the veteran mine’r that lias his feel- for tho residents of lower Pittstou. It is rings touched1. Could we but talk with worthy of nots that the fourteen-foot vein men now prominent in bu^ines^ and coal then opened furnished as high a grade of circl s in tip's and other sections, we might co ;1 as has ever been mined in the Wyorn- hear many interesting tales of the bumble r,0 Even at this late day, the co il Sstart made years ago by the’s honored and ■n u- i from the same voiu at No. 7 shaft, 'influential citizens in tire dingy gallerit r of hy the Pennsylvania Coal company, is of a this ancient colliery, which for nearly half superior quality. A little later, the excel ! a century has reared its soot-covered head louce of the coal made it possible for the above the foot of Oregon Heights. jparators of the colliery to compete with Few Pittstonians now living can ir rail the Schuylkill operators. Tne coal was] the opening of this old mine. Away back .rausported by caral to Berwick, Bloom, in 1831, when the lower end of town, ( p> burg, Danville, Harrisburg, Poit Deposit, dally that portion now included in Oregon Biltimore, and other places. The princip ■' and the Heights, was es yet au itubrokeu demand was from the iron works. So| ■ forest, Mr. Alva Tompkins, biill a promi -mall was the geological knowledge of thej rfentand honored resident of West FiPs coal field at that lime that not even the| I ton, and Mr. James Ma jFarl'me, father of ■perators of the col'iery regarded the other! ThomasMacFarlane,a well known r ident veins as of any value, aud Mr. Tompkins of Kingston, conceived the idea of opening -ays they would have sold all rights t r a mine on the pi'op ei .y, which wr 1 then Them for $10 an sere¬ owned by Mr. Tompkins’ father and John in 1855, Mr. Tompkirs pure has - .1 the! Jenkins,father of the late Steuben Jenkins, JacFarlane interest in the colliery, aud a of Wyoming. The projectors of the new partnership, with the firm title of! scheme with then' ovfn hands i'elrlovtd the I’ompkius & Price, was farmed,continuing for tlire's years, when Mr. Tornpk ins be¬ '- 4l of the highest qu"’'ty were plr -ed 1 . came sola owner. He operate d the . olliery jnd reach, and the 1: f to Mr. Tompkins suoeessfully until 1863, when a new firm, s incalculable. A t.':t for damages, demur & ( ompany, took } e-rsiou under orolight a short time after, spy oat the L ; a lease made by Mr. Toinpk ins. 1 nis com- high Valley company, is t, ill p mdh'g in jpauy was composed of H. S. Mercnr, of Luzerne c mr , jl’owanda, father of the late Frederick - loan while, in i’flO, a large breaker and Mercur, superintendent for the Lehigh towef had been erected over the shaft, be- JValley Coal Company, and also of E G. pg tbs s- -ond built in this vicinity. (The Mercur and Mf3. A. G. Ma-on, of West jeld Seneca br ker, built by Hurd & Flagg, Pittston; Jarvis Langdon, of E!tn’ra,who, was the first) The building of these two |besides being a prominent coal man, was jbi( kefs mams the commencement of the I known as the father in-law of Mark Twain; | coal prepaung era, which work has now |Alva Tompkins, and M. C. Mercur, of become one of the most important branches j fowanda. Mr. Tompkins was engaged by I of the coal busine ss. While the breaker !the firm to superintend the colliery, and ;was being built, the railroad from the ialso to manage the Twin colliery, atPitts- Junction to the colliery, wlroh ;s now used ton June ion, which had Iren leased, and as the main line of ihe Lehigh Valley Com- which was toeing operated in connection pany, was built. This road was built by wi^h the other mine. A. few years after¬ the old Lackawanna ik Bloomsburg Brl- ward, the film haring been d:- olved in road Company, upon an agreement made the meantime, Mr. Mercur, the head of the with the Coal men to furnish the company old him, di. 1 very suddenly in the Eagle with 30,000 tons of coai at $1 per ton. Hotel. Charles L°9, now a prominent |Tlre Lackawanna & Blcooisburg Iioad had, resident of Harrisburg, where he has a I i for several years pre\ fous to this lime, been iterative position with Coayngham, Stick- running down the west side of the river,but ey & Company, was engaged as book . the l.ttston coal mon up to tl:s time had -reper for Mercur & Company for a num¬ ber of years. ! not been able to roach it. The railroad to the Junction was all that was necessary, Mercur & Company’s lease expired i n and when it w?>s finism d, cars were fur¬ LS6G. A new firm was then organized by nished by roads connecting v th the Lacka¬ H S. Mercur and Jaivis Langdon, w.th wanna & Bloomsburg, and the shipping of the title of H. S. Mercur & Company, and coal by rail was begun. Mr. Tompkins new lease effected. Inks contiau J* 1 for and Col. C. F. Wei's, of Towanda, who ■bout one year, which brings us to the was at that Crna pr< ident of the old Lsekr one of the budding of the Lehigh Valley wanaa & Biooaisburg Company, laid oat Railroad,and a’m to an event that resulted the line from the Junction to the colliery. 10 disastrously to the colliery that it never The L-high Valley Company finally secured bould bo as profitable as before, the owner, control of tlierord, and made it their means Mr. Tompkins, suffering untold loss for of g.-i tiug through town. Thus tlr» younger which he has never been re" abated In gent ration will see how the main line of order to get their road into Pittston, it was tie Lehigh ValVy road comes to be loeited necessary for the Lehigh Valley company in what is now the main street of the town. to blast a road through the high bluffs at By 18!il) the Lehigh Valley road was com¬ Oregon. It was an immense ta=k, and the pleted, coal could be shipped by rail to all shocks caused by the big blasts were s:> in¬ points north and south, and the death knell tense as to disturb the underlying strata lof the canal had been sounded. jfor miles around. Nearly twenty acres of In 1868, Mr. Tompkir« b- gan worl'ng the colliery property were damaged. Wide Ithe small veins on his property, and he cracks that are still to be seen were made (also leased the oid Eagle sh ift/ near by, m the surfa-s, and the fpurteeu-foot veir jrhe two collieries being operate 1 together' the only o ie then being worked, was so |The coal taken from the Eigle mine was bally wrecked that it could never after- prepared for market in the Tomokirs ward bo worked with safety The pUkrs breaker. Tins arrangement continm luu- were broken down, surface water made |tH 1371, when the g.-eat explosion by way through the breaks into the work mg, .' (which seventeen then met ter, ble d- itbs, fod the greater portion of the mine w ' occurr, 1. Tire result was the abandon’ 0°d/a- Several attempts were made k j , went of the colliery by Mr. Tompkins He elPeD'9’ r° repair the d^age c-a-io-. i (continued, however, to work the smaller by the blasting, but in vain. The work ! veins of his owa colliery until 18S3, when nigs were permitted to fill with water jp p Wilson

1 - . ’ .meu, sc^eda le ' «, liii’tt » In Hanover the Paxton boys were settled and erected the first frame church in the . eu the room and chutes, and opwaU’d county, in the vicinity of the present church vjodi-ry move or U i fed*'" - ^or a PM on Hanover Green. Furthermore, tbe first iodoE two years.!; Liter it passed into the Congregational Society was established in bauds of thsPenf-ylvt.r>iaCc \ Company, Hanover Township and one hundred years ago ltevs. You Benscoter, Gray, Johnson of whe’e employi '• are row em-.ig- 1 m re-j Wilkes-Barre and Wadkams of Plymouth con-, moving the o’d machinery and b'laLencdj stituted the entire clerical force of Congrega¬ ,:mbers in order that the place may be put tionalism in this valley. in a more sightly ouditi.m. Briefly, In the earliest settlement of the valley the Shawanese Indians established themselves on tb'sis the b'story of the colliery. Could it the west bank of the Susquehanna River at; bit speak, it might tell ns stories immmei Plymouth, while tho Nanticokes came fromj able,, both of Burrow and op happim s; for the eastern shore of Maryland and settled inj it should by remember 1 Uiat the da.) =5 of the lower portion of the valley on the east side of the river in and adjoining Hanover! old wen just P’ foB ot danger t) the Township. dusky miner as the pr sent. Not a few of The associations of Hanover have been full, our readers today recall- with Lslings of of nature aud ingenuous simplicity, and its sadn sthek'3 thereof a dear husoand, remembrances spread o’er the thoughts and I give the fancy a Vision illuminated by a| father or others near of kiu, and know bright and beautiful glimpse of beauty and | what it is to be dependent in a m’mng pleasure more readily felt tban described. town. But there were a’o go_ 1 old ti m< • Tho contemplation of Hanover Grove and its when ml digger in the old colliery surroundings has something in it intensely Attractive, not indeed in the recollection of| i brought home monthly sums of money yaars which may enable us to see our declin¬ double or treble those now c um 1 here in ing sun, but in the exhilarating pleasures of j the sitae way, a*td the horn- < thus made, those who shall strengthen and refresh them¬ happy and the hearts thus ma le glad by selves where kind nature has given the ac-j the now dismantle 1 coBiery enLtle its in commodation of circumstances by which we may enjoy a landscape which has been soft¬ ' eresang history'o the E.pa'3 ’ rday ac ened by civilization and which art and corded it. science have made health-giving, beautiful and accessible. George Uuqohart. |

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TustmW the possibilities that the elec-1 trie road to Nautieoke is destined soon to, make Hanover Grove a most P°Pular **on | 1 ...a pleasure ground. Its accessible y i any part of the valley through the trwrtion „»yaPelve» it»«»»»! i««»‘ rest, pleasure and refreshment. It « wort > ot remembrance that it is a part of one °f the orwinal townships laid out by the Susflue I uinna Land Company in 1770 and nam.fd Hanover by Capt. Lazarus Stewart itf I ory of a former home. Among the promi aent original emigrant settlers who cam into this valley under the Connecticut title, was the late Matthias Hollenbaeka prwlen . far-seeing and successful man in matters, and an active participant in both the Revolutionary War and the conflict reU- lative to the right of soil and jurisdiction in the Wyoming Valley. Judge Hollenbeck hell various civil and military appointments, tilled responsible and influential positions in social life, and died Feb. 18, 1832, at o vanced age of 77. 8

Originally a Veritable Garden of Eden-Marvelous Changes Wrought by Marvelous Men-Pen and Pencil Pictures-The March of Progress in a Hundred Years-Introducing the World to the Greatest Coal City of the Future-The Wilkes-Barre and Wyoming Valley Traction Com¬ pany’s Great System of Street Car Lines-Sketches of Prominent Business Ihterests-An Ideal Seminary-The Republican’s God-speed to j a Sister City. This world is a panorama of dissolving race was a grand one and we do more views, but every fading out makes room wisely to eclipse that grandeur by actual for another of equal if not surpassing merit than to cavil at those wno have splendor. The Wyoming Valley of the gone before and undervalue them. The centuries was a veritable garden of Eden great “ego” is seen in all age3, and in gen¬ That myriads of people of a pre-historic erations as well as in the isolated and the race have inhabited it is not without individual proof. That whoever lived here in any A LESSON PROM THE QUAKERS. century or in any generation saw nature at its grandest and was ennobled by his ,, I?1SJ. ,name mig'lit have been Isaac and that of his wife Rachel. environments it would be an aspersion << V,R;}ehel’”1s,ai.d he> as tiieJ sat together, upon humanity to deny. Communin' all the world is queer.” with the beautiful, unthwarted bv an evil spint, would lift man to God^and I “:Vye’” resPor>Jed the demure matron. ^‘Except thee and me,” continued Isaac. hold him in such an affinity. The Wvo- Aye, said Rachel. j mmg Valley from the hand of nature was -tred sometimes, mv dear,” solemnly Pwadisean and as beautiful as any region asseverated he of the broad brim, “some of hke extent on the face of the earth times 1 think Ihee is a little queer, too.” Fojest-clad m great, tall, gently sway- So come the faults of the Indians in glaring blood-red colors, while to us of the paler skin, more sordid surely, and W the midst of flood tides of know edge ! m all history and hi anLiu admiratiou of I Pen lisy] vania^ ba^at made N01 ^eastern dorsememlfH^ and cream" of the Vcw Enlf ,1° win tbe tbe future are as the' pa“inle SfSt au<1 and hold , Bgland yeomanry I that life weighed u* miStr°ng attachment of all His creatures. In the light of the unwritten annals, who shallftand, and ner'fecfelfi1?fin0r" bear away the palm of a S2S ision? fulfiIlment of Ws eternal mis- burial. Whatevef r,by the Great Tri- - &°od forefathers, in the primeval r . tever race Was here that forests that clad that which to-day is our valley, were no less noble inspirit and longing than we. If we have surpa ssccl The canoes vrere fastened along the banks them in achievements, to that very ext ent and at first were the only method of cross¬ the greater is the accountability and re¬ ing. At length two ferries were estab¬ quirement. lished, one opposite Northampton street the dawn of the century. and the other at Mill Creek, the former gaining in importance until about 1775 it There were many years—a quarter of a derived a rental of sixty dollars per an¬ century it may be—of twilight that pre¬ num. ceded the sunrise of the century which, These were the common means of com¬ to Wyoming valley and its towns and munication between the inhabitants of the cities, has ushered in such fabulous east and west sides, among whom there changes. In the last quarter of the pre¬ was in that early day somewhat of local ceding century the homes of the settlers rivalry, and tue same continued until on the plains, now the site of the beauti¬ about 1816, when the first bridge that is ful city of Wilkes-Barre, the smoke of known to have spanned the river from whose cabin chimneys (and they were Nanticoke to Pittston, was erected by a massive stone structures, at the gables) company of the citizens of Wilkes-Barre. went coiling up and floating through and A sketch of this bridge is presented the among the tree-tops, were few and scat¬ reader as an object of veneration belong¬ tering. The v^ild beasts outnumbered ing to another age and yet linked closely the inhabitants hud the Susquehanna was to this. Matthias Hollenback was presi¬ fringed with e'ergreen and rhodenden- dent of the company and Jacob Gist its dron to the wat sr’s edge and full of fish. secretary and treasurer. The latter w; _ , Y OP WlLK In the nrcmorj w _ Wilkes-Barre the ferry boats Delaware at Philadelphia, we “Old Mother Keithline. - 3 in by horse power; whale oil wa jthe present city confines were post and use for lamps, public and p rail fences, and these are well remember history, eh? Wei; my knowledge of those event), Johannes Knickerbocker did, to what good purpose you will find further on. At the first approach of cold weather, upon the old-time brass andirons were laid the log, back-stick, fore-stick and superstructure. A handful of kindlings, here and there a chip, a splinter, a dry twig 1 Like a cannonier the old gentle¬ man applied the match. A timid little flame, like a half-furled banner of crim- , son. Another and another; bolder and bolder, till now they turn into billows and breakers of red, rolling up the black- ened walls of the chimney; above the —jam, above the mantel-tree, away up the chimney they roar, while the huge "* “black-stick” below all lies like a great bar notwithstanding the fiery surf that beats against it. “Necromancer 1” apostrophized the old gentleman, gazing at the circle of faces about him made beautiful by the crimson glow', and with a sigh of content he too sank into his arm-chair, elapsed into a musing silence. “Now, grand-pa,” broke in Robby, his eyes fixed with great intentness upon one

>e upon the Dreast o ing~to air fnslv'hdwled^fepoh that sub¬ wili suffice to tie the ( a rock he stood, as ject, and so the group^iroke up with when desired. else save her the promise of another “tile” story the Make two trays of pastebc following evening. with yellow silk, each as and lolling tongues hamper is wide. Candy bos to madness by the right size would make good tru d been smeared upon LITTLE PEOPLE'S COLUMN, must be taken to pieces an<‘ e, awaited the feast covered on both sides with ously the iron bolts TWO OLD-FASHIONED PUZZLES. edges being overhanded very ; d the door swung the parts overhanded together They Were Popular In the Old Log School Straps of white ribbon are fastened i disapproval and Houses and are Just as Good To-day. end to hang them by. They are susi --multitude. It was ed one at each end of the haamper i see, not a BT E. A. MATHEWS. half way from the bottom. Of course any pretty figured stu been watch- You can find the age of any person, silkolene, satteen,or figured cotton gc smile, turned and the month in which he was shorn, by will do for the hamper, also pink or bit ^yhich lay be¬ a queer trick that was well known by cambric covered with Swiss. our fathers and mothers in the days when When it is done it will be a dainty ll and the flam¬ they went to the old log cabin school place to keep dolly’s nightdress or any of 's for a second re¬ house and spent their noonings in telling her day dresses or, underclothes, folding nt alas, only for a riddles and playing all sorts of practical them neatly at the-bottom of ihe " gry growl and fangs jokes. The trays will hold her small belon rgest brute leaped Ask the person whose age you are to such as slippers, stockings, mirro tell to take the number of the month in and brush, powder box—yes, even over that which he was bom and multiply it by luxuries are now provided for dol th a quick two. her fan, handkerchief and tiny bride’s tender January is counted as number one, This hamper will richly rawa February as number two, and so on girl for tne making. mid-air when, through the year. To this product he must add five, and then multiply the amount by fifty. HOW STAR NURSED HIS NEIGHBOR- To this last number he must add his present age, and from the sum subtract True story of an Engine house Hors ce the number of days there are in a year, ce or three hundred and sixty-five. BY A. I, WILLIS, tr All the work up to this point must be done by the person, without letting any In the fire department of a certa one see his figures; but now you ask him city out West was a fine horse nan to tell you what number he has found, Star. He had been on the force a long and to that number you add one hundred time, and was very trusty and very in¬ % telligent. His name—I am sure you have and fifteen. The result obtained by this last opera¬ guessed it—came from a white star on tion contains the information wanted. forehead. Point off two figures on the right, and Star knew his duties very well and the number will be the age sought; while whenever the electric bell rang, whether the number on the left of the point will it was the signal of a fire or only for th3 give the month in which the person wa3 daily drill of the engine-house horses, he would rush out of the door of his stall born. This trick never fails, and it is equalled and take his appointed place. by another by which a person s namo Each stall had its own door, so that the horses in case of fire, could got to may be found. 4-h/^fw nln/lftfl in f Vi Tr>o a T V\f\QC1 Vll P t.1 TTI P * hnt 37

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was almost unknown, wood being iu gen¬ eral use. There were then no railroads in the country; stage coaches carried the mail and passengers; coal was burned, if at all, in grates. In this valley it was dug out with pick and shovel by individ¬ ual enterprise from the outcrop, and de¬ livered to customers in large lumps, to be broken by hand with an old axe or ham¬ mer. There were no coal hods except such as were home-made, of kegs or boards, with barrel hoops for handles. There were no cooking stoves, all cooking being done by wood fires, or in grates where coal was used. The water was from wells aud water barrels or hogs¬ heads, caught from the roofs of the houses which later was generally used for laundry purposes. In the city of Wilkes- Barre the water was of various qualities, some hard, some soft, some sweet, some brackish. The town pump on thejSquare, I just back of the old academy, produced water utterly unfit to drink, a compound |of iron, sulpher, and other ingredients, the taste of which was nauseating; st.iii the boys when hard pressed fur a d~lnk would use it. The hill just south and east of the town was covered with the original forest, mostly oak, with an occa- \ .casional pine. The woods extended irom Benjamin Bidlacb. the foot of the hill back to the Empire mines and was a cool and inviting retreat, the prophet of his generation and is said lit was called Ross Woods, and in spring to .have often lifted the curtain of the fu¬ ■ and fall was full of wild pidgeons. At ture to his contemporaries and given • the present Landmesser corner, South Main glimmerings of much that has since been street, was the large farm barn of Gen¬ i realized. eral Ross, standing in a large barn yard. There were no houses on the hill along HOW THEY DID IN THE OLD TIME. Market street except one iu which lived In the memory of persons still living in Solomon Gruver. On Northampton a Wilkes Barre the ferry boats crossing the street hill was one log house where lived Delaware at Philadelphia, were propelled “Old Mother Keithline.” Everywhere in uy ho.so power; whale oil was in common | the present city confines were post and I use for lamps, public and private; coal pail fences, and these are well remember-

■ ed by the older citizens To have been ox-1 istiug even on Market street from Sin- ton’s corner to Hollenback’s store as latel as 1829. The people were sturdy, hon¬ est, reasonably pious, and did their best. There were exceptions and the distiller¬ ies were not maintained only for, those who could drink or let it alone. Nowhere ft “iriy days of American tastory tlmt tried men’s souls, were there to be found truer patriots or more intelligent men and women. In a sense they still Uve, hut too largely they are long since forgotten._ _ ___ THE BEGINNING OF WILKES-BARRE. At its inception Wilkes-Barre was big¬ ger than at the present time, for it was then a township instead of a mere town or city. Like the early western black¬ smith shop, in which one might he, though four miles from the anvil, so the town of

Old Ship Zion, a picture of which latter we reproduce religion and culture. Hand in hand have gone these pillars of social and civil life in Wilkes-Barre and the Valley. The minister and schoolmas¬ ter were honored men, and none mur¬ mured if they stuck to their trades. The former, according to the usage of the mother country, they paid by a system of voluntary taxation, allowing full liberty for denominational peculiarities, and each having the option of the sect to which he should attach himself and render his support. The first minister called was tfie Rey. Jacob Johnson, whose stipend was fixed by the town authorities at ‘sixty pounds the year ensuing on the present list and his salary shall rise annu¬ ally as our list rises,” a valley of content. The ideal of pioneer homes filled and enjoyed the plain ot the present city in the early years of the century. New England customs and peculiarities marked the fathers and the mothers. The homes Old Ship Zion (Church). were built of logs, rough at first, after¬ ward hewn and faced. One story was 1770 had,a wide expanse. It was named the rule, with ample yards, in which grew for two English statesmen who had ex¬ the corn and the pumpkins. The cow, cited the admiration of the inhabitants, and the pig and tfie chickens; the watch then all under British rule, for devotion dog and the tabby, old and lazy, lolled in to the rights of the colonies and the prin¬ thedooryard or crept slyly into the chim¬ ciples of liberty—John Wilkes and Isaac ney corner by the great open fireplace, as Barre. The town plot, now Wilkes- the seasons came and went. The inhabi¬ Barre, embraced 200 acres, which was di¬ tants wore the home-spun and spun vided into eight squares of twenty-five it themselves. The farmers were acres, and these into six lots each, con¬ grotesquely clad in tow linen. taining, after allowance for streets, about The preachers and the lawyers wore Lon¬ three and three-quarter acres. Space was don brown and blue, and many years left for public buildings and this was afterward the children wondered that ' early occupied by the court house and grandmother smiled at the mention of the county offices, the old Wilkes-BarreAca- color. But those days were not all shadow. The people were happy and content In 41

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1820 Wilkes-Barre had 1,200' inhabitant ] river on the west, ana the mountains to ana was a thriving village in the centr the eastward, had something to do with of twenty miles of almost unbroken fores the fixing of its location, It is of the densest character, full of game o proving, however, to have been a fortu¬ every sort, where life was free as the lifi itous selection, since for compactness and of the bird or was then the roaming: o solidity it is scarcely rivaled by any city, the deer. ° occupying just the position to spread to Of this period three houses still stand 'every point of the compass with a like viz.: the Bowman house, the Slocum dis¬ strength and permanence. tillery and the old home of Thomas Jos- AT THE MAST HEAD. lin, on Scott street. Of another famous locality, Sinton’s corner, we give an ac¬ From the ball of the flag-staff which curate representation from a photograph surmounts the Court house tower is our kindly loaned by a personal friend, Hon view point, though as a matter of fact C. D. Shoemaker, whose obsequies are the bird and the writer form a syndicate, passing as this sketch of the city and val¬ one occupying the balcony at its base, ley of his love is forming. Other illus¬ where it seems to pierce the very heart trations of this tribute of The Republican of the historic city, while the other, for to Scrauton s friendly rival—the features obvious reasons, is perched above. Casting the eyesjj downward one is nnH°wrUS (Jll^,ersleeve. Benjamin Bidlack and Francis Slocum— will be studied with ready to exclaim: A beautiful centre in¬ interest by many readers; hut our hi°-h- deed—a natural selection as the centre of est purpose is ° a city of vast proportions, whose outer edge is the rim of encircling mountains, THE WILKES-BARRE OP THE PRESENT. with the Susquehanna river as the middle Nature or some accidental circumstance division, winding slowly and beautifully long seemed to have located Wilkes- from its northern extremity to the south¬ ffarre m a corner instead of at the com- ern gap at Nanticoke! Streets broad manaing centre of the great Valley of and neat, with gracefully shaded walks Doubtless the canal and the on either side, stretch to the several points Imoun.ain gap adjacent, together with of the compass like the segments of a the fact that its site was an arable up¬ great circle, with the thither ends touch¬ lift vtn adap-‘l(1 for a <3,liet and beau- ing the mountains on every side, and i 111111. vll!a Se wuh natural defenses of the seeming to_ bring far away points to the vrange of vision, Forty thousand popu- pub- atnnds a monument to of the lation! and as we look upon the picture lie spirit and religious devotion . before us we exclaim, twice forty thous Catholics of Northeastern Pennsylvania and! And peering into,the future a m s and haze and dazzle of possibilities seem dallying with a census one hundred times

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Then Forty Fort, Luzerne Kingston Edwardsville. To the south-wea. Ply. mouth, Avondale, Nanticoke. ' temithward Hanover foot hills, a very labvrinth of day-dreams of grand pn- vate homesteads for the coal barons of Frances future generatious, of which the wonder ful castle of Dr. Streeter, which yet l and is but one of many of their most im stands just seen from the swift flymg posing aud beautiful buildings to electric ear that winds in and out on found in America. The ;field is wide and hurrying run of forty minutes from our the air is free for Protestants to emulate r. treat center to the busy and growing viH their example. •_. Jige of Nanticoke, eight miles away.

The First River Bridge. . EASTWABD. South east is Sugar Notch,'Ashley, ^1^ Looking directly eastward the fought intr Mill Heights, and m full Tjew a t presses that the coal city of the future is matchless situation, in reserve it may a world in itself. Nearer come the moun¬ be for some great national or State tains on this side and more abrupt, dud institution, with a superb background of they form a barricade of massive Pr0P°r mountains faintly outlining the mysteri j tions, and whisper as we taiie m t j ous gap through which two railroads sweep of the great circumference: the have found their way. And here is city that nestles here can protect itself against ttie world I An embankment of MALINKBODT CONVENT. mountain, literally a mile high. Over A magnificent structure indeed which at¬ this great range went the old-time stage tracts general attention, is admired ,for coach, but its track is grass-grown now “the loveliness of its situation, and won¬ and the hostelries on the route have dered at by not a few for the character crumbled away, wit|h a heap of stones and possible results of its work. It only to mark the spot where once tower- 41

CITY HAIX, _ | ' ered the uncouth chimney with the TuT of forked lightnings, defying the ; double fire-place at its base. The stories world, the electric companies are making are ended and the tellers are gone. Now play of the problem of rapid transit, and and then a boy of the period recalls a few that which in the larger cities is so com¬ i of them to the delectation of the genera¬ plicated as to be inexplicable, here has tion to whom /they are far-away fairy¬ found complete solution, and many muni¬ tales Inward toward the centre is Brew- cipal wisacres of what are called great ing Heights; then Parsons, Plains, and cities, would in Wilkes-Barre find the other thriving'hamlets, “to the place of problem which they are hopelessly strug- beginning.” Wilkes-Barre is a citv of glmg with unraveled and mastered |jj . MARVELOUS compactness, the trolley system rightly managed for and of beauty equally noticeable by all. I street railways can be surpassed then /It is touched by five railroads, and the golden age” is too tame an appellation gaps and distances that have been de¬ for that in which We live. The Wilkes- scribed have been practically annihilated Barre and Wyoming Talley Traction and made not only suburban but a part Comany has without question the grand¬ otthegreat city itself by the wonderful est system of electric car routes anywhere a widely extended system of electric to be found. Not alone their location in es, not surpassed in any city on earth. a valley of classic associations, but I the present of that valley is ACTION COMPANY’S GREAT WORN. bringing back the palmiest period of old be mythical Jove, with the hand- Home, when she boasted herself, and was, the mistress of the world. Add to this that the natural attractions ot route oa half a dozen lines are unsurpassed, and, then take in the fact, of which many readers are to this momen uninformed, that from the historic ci y across the historic river, and through ^he »s|,orite and incomparable valley of Wyoming, nine miles along one of the grandest one- bundred-feet-wide avenues on the face of the earth, runs this trolley line, connecting the capital bity to the very base of Campbell’s ledge, and we have a statement as ex¬ travagant as any myth of ' the tales of the Arabian Knights and yet true to the last syllable. Then to Plymouth, five miles away^ then to Nanticoke, eight miles away; then to Plains and Parsons with extensions in building, reaching to * ltte-. ton on the east side, and it is no flattery to accord to the Wyoming Valley Trac¬ tion Company the honor of doing more for Wilkes-Barre and the Valley than any but its Great Creator in all its sublime and memorable history. Indeed the powers above have been combined, with finite invention, and Jehovah hast; been made a partner. May we hint that womanhood, il Aev 1 . has its fourl it should be remembered that ,He holds; hundred uuapproach: hies, Wilkes-Barre has an equal number who are paragons the bulk of the capital, _ and should not of human excellence, the peers of any in be forgotten in the administration of its this or any other age—and the women of affairs? On another page will he Wilkes-Barre, Heaveu bless,them! are found further details of this great interest. angels of mercy, whose very presence VAST BUSINESS INTERESTS. lets light on the problem of all angels ap¬ Below our eleyation is a hive of rattling pearing in the form of woman. industry, noticeably changing to an in¬ crease of manufacturing from ye, THE MUNICIPALITY. year The tall and splendid, and most Old Wilkes-Barre stands iu no damag¬ substantial and enduring business struc¬ ing contrast with the pretentious city of tures, of which the magnificent Coal Bx. the present. It had not the numbers nor change, pictured in this connection that the great wealth, but it had what is bet¬ it may stand in contrast with other days; ter than either, the picked men and is but a sample, and which are duplicat¬ women of that early period to lay the ing as rapidly as one maysuccecdto foundations and pave the way for the another. A little glimpse of the future progress and development of the future, of Wilkes-Barre may be bad by antici¬ and let" no vainglorious Wilkes-Barrean pation and without imagination. VVitn flatter himself that the climax is even reached. Prom the days when thousands of deep acres of untouched now coal deposits and a surface the most ad- Jesse Pell wrote on the fly leaf of his old vantageous for every form ot human im Masonic hand-hook the memorandum which lias immortalized him, and which crnsti-yT w bo Would not 1 i Se to sect h e, we reproduce in facsimile, to the present realizations of an hundred years to come.j the order has been forward and no THE MANUFACTURING. j thoughtful person can study the situa¬ A very recent period covers the history j tion without an exp aueioa of ideas re¬ of three-fourths of the great establish¬ garding the future. ments, whose smoko is coiling upward In the old days the river front seemed this autumn afternoon. They are but to have had greater prominence as a cen¬ the forerunners of countless that are to tre of business than now. The first court follow. was held in the old family mansion of education and social life. Col. Zebulon Butler, on the site of the present residence of Hou. Stanley Wood¬ “The old town of Wilkes-Barre’ is a. ward, while directly in front near the worn phrase, but iu fact there is a _youtn bank of the river stood the old tree, con and a newness about the historic city cerning which the town authorities made Which are amazing. Its educational pre- this enactment: “For ye present ye tree emmence iu Northeastern Pennsylvania that now stands northerly from Capt, has paralleled the century, and yet it has Butler’s house shall be ye town sign¬ public edifices for school purposes the post.” most modern, the plaster in the walls of The old sign-post answered well for which seems scarcely dry. They number the modem newspaper, which then lYas eighteen. Of the social life, it may be by no means in general circulation. said it is ideal. Unlike towns of its j character otherwhere its . autocracy is one] iiSsl| of personal worth ami real manhood and| n AS A CITY. CKWAItD. tv of Wilkes-Barre was inco'r It was the purpose of this contribution May 24, 1871. It has had for to the literature of the times to photo¬ Ira M. Kirkendall, M A. Kearney, graph a city foT the profit of the appreci¬ '. Loomis, Thomas Broderick, C. B. ative and to comfort and bless the rapid¬ and F. M. Nichols, now serving, ly goiug fathers and mothers. If it may time of incorporation it had about immortalize them here* and inspire those inhabitants. In the matter of | who follow them with a simi¬ educational advantages it has been highly lar spirit and purpose, this effusion will favored from the beginning and even not be as the morning mist that the light rior to the existence of Wyoming Semt- of the sun shall sweep away. -~ry, at which large numbers of the lead¬ F. A. Dony. ing citizens of the present time have re¬ ceived their training, and our excellent common school system, Wilkes-Barre schools were noted and in maoy instances From,. students from the largest cities and dis¬ tant points came here for education. Some of the sturdiest elements that con¬ stitute real education, hot down iu the .a curriculum of any school, Were easily picked up here by any student and many there were who made the most of the Date, opportunity and went out to become meii of fame and iinfluence. f’BBIKF HISTORY OF T£E CHURCH. THE NEWSPAPERS. ,/§t. Peter’s Church wa$/organized and ad¬ Many .and varied have been the literary mitted into union, with the convention of Ventures of Northeastern Pennsylvania, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Dio¬ and the town and city of Wilkes-Barre cese of Pennsylvania in April, 1856, under ftashad its full share of them. Space the care of Rev. George D. Miles, rector of wiil not permit its enumeration. It has St. Stephen’s Church of Wilkes-Barre, who at the present time teh Weekly neiVspa- for some time held services in the old Acade¬ hers :ond four dailies. The latter are of a my building. In 1873 under the diocese of graphical and literary character un- Central Pennsylvania Charles Parrish donat¬ jrpassed in any city of like pops Ion ed to the parish a frame building 25 by 40 the State. Among the leadingv^_ws- feet, which was improved and fitted up for per men and editorial writers may be use. In May 1873 Rev. R. H. Williamson of ,ention*tl E. F. Bogert, Dr. F. 0. John- Wilkes-Barre began holding services in the “Christian” Church building and continued ou, J. C. Powell, E. A. Niven, J. S. to preach there until July 1873. On July 5, Sanders, E. D. Liuskill, Robert Bauer, 1873, Rev. Prank fl. Winslow entered upon C. Ben Johnson, W.’E. Woodruff, Eugene j B. Gicring, John J. Malooy, C. B. Sny- his duties as rector of the parish. On July | der, E. K. Bogert, Charles H. Chamber** 1 12 the chapel was formally opened by him. | On January 1, 1874, Rev. W. 8. Heaton was | lain, S. AY. Boyd, Isaac S. Long, Dr. called to the rectorship of the parish, and George Urquhart, several of whom have attained more than a local renown. accepting, ministered with success until 1875, when, on account of ill health, he resigned THE CHURCHES, ! and removed to Philadelphia, leaving behind I Wilkes-Barre has always been pre- ■ him an enviable reputation for zealous and | eminently a Christian city. It has about pious labor. j forty churches and numerous benevolent In January, 1875, Rev. John Rhoades Fary, institutions, besides having a public deacon, entered upon the charge of the par¬ library, the. gift of Isaac M. Osterhout, ish, but at the end of six months resigned. the largest in the Valley, and in connec¬ From this time, as the baptisinal record tion with it, from the same generosity shows, Revs. Charles G. Admans, Thomas ! the beautiful new quarters of the Wyo- Burrows of Ashley, James N. Hune, Peter ing Historical and Geological society, re¬ Baldy Lightner, rector of St. Clement’s, cently completed and to which its most iSouth Wilkes-Barre, and especially Rev. valuable collection is now being removed. -Henry L. Jones, D. D., rector of St. Stephen’s, These with the new City hall, now in iWilkes-Barre, gave aeeasional services to building, mark yet another epoch in the -this parish. Rev. H. L. Jones, D. D., giving history of Wilkes-Barre, stated services on Sunday afternoons through WYOMING VALLEY CITY. the year 1879. j In November, 1879, Rev. Horace Edwin . Another has suggested this high sound¬ ! Hayden, presbyter, became assistant ing name for the great coal city of the j minister at St. Stephen’s Church. Wilkes- future. As well let it be Wilkes-Barre Barre, and also entered on the charge of St. that the past and the future may stand Peter’s, holding divine service there on Sun¬ w ell connected. It has indeed a field and day morning and at Ashley and Laurel Run a promise of fabulous possibilities, cap- on alternate Sunday afternoons. On Nov. 2, ablc of affording the grandest homes for 1879, a Sunday school was organized with k.,1?1 -n people, with the purest air I twenty-five scholars. Aug. 2, 1882, the Le- a sky as blue as that of sunny Italy. | high & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company donated to St. Peter’s Church two lots od Academy the address of the Hon. Steuben. Jenkins, 6treet. Ou Nov, 13, 1882, the contract was delivered at the monument July 3, 1878. let to move the old church building to new | Mr. Jenkins was justly regarded as a care¬ foundations to be erected on the new site. A ful and accurate historian, especially in little later in the same year further improve¬ matters pertaining to the Wyoming Val¬ ments were made to the removed building J ley. In the address referred to (p. 44) he; and Conyngham memorial window was re-i stated that “ Ooionel Butler, supported by! moved from St. Stephen’s Church to St. Pet-1 Major Jonathan Waite Garrett, assisted; er's. In 1884 the parish purchased two more by Andrew Dana as adjutant, commanded lots from the Lehigh & Wilks-Barre Coal the right wing.’’ In the list of the slain, Co. The first Sunday school of the parish as inscribed on the monument(p.70),he also was organized by Enoch I. Jones in the gives the name of Major Jonathan Waite Christian Church on May 26, 1872. Garrett. In 1887 Mr. Jenkins assured me Bev. Hayden resigned the charge of St. himself that the name as so given was an Peter’s parish on October 1, 1885, and accep¬ error. And yet this error has been re- ‘ ted that of St. Clement’s at South Wilkes- peated, apparently without any effort to Barre. From this date until March 21, 1886, verify it by examination of the monu¬ the services were conducted by various gen¬ ment, by Munkell’s “History of Luzerne tlemen acting as lay readers until Bev. County,” 1880 (p. 305); by the “Wyoming Thomas Angell took charge as assistant at Memorial Volume,” 1882, p. 340, and by St. Stephen’s, Wilkes-Barre. Bev. Angell re¬ H. C. Bradsby in his “History of Luzerne signed on Sept. 1, 1888, and removed to Har¬ County,” 1893, p. 120. risburg. From that time until May 1, 1889, Wyoming, July 14, 1887. services were kept up by clerical supplies ChapmaD, p. 175, gives Major Wait, and lay readers. Garret. On May 1, 1889, Bev. James P. Ware, the Miner, p. 242,gives Major John Garrett, ! present efficient and eloquent young rector, By mixing these via memoranda, and not i took charge as assistant to the rector of St. .eliminate, and John Wait Garret is easily 1 Stephen’s Church at Wilkes-Barre. The rect¬ .obtained. That was the manner in which I ory was built during the ministry of Bev. my mistake took shape and got into print. Thomas B. Angell Yours, &c., S. Jenkins. Rev. Horace E. Hayden, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. . t From) I have marie a careful research through \ the records of Luzerne county, and the j county of Northumberland from which it was formed in 1787, through the Colonial : Records of Connecticut any Pennsylvania 'and have failed to discover and trace of such a person as Jonathan Waite Garrett. ; Bate, (Jj.E.L.-.'.JL/' /£r John Garrett, b. West Simsbury, which all resided in the town of West¬ Conn., in 1727,was the eldest son and third moreland. Of these Butler, Denison, child of Francis Garrett,and his wife, Sarah Dorrance, Avery, Fuller, Daniel and Silas (Mills) Tuller, born 1696, died 1797, in her Gore, Geer, Garrett, McKerachan, Ran¬ 101st year. She was the daughter of som, Ross, Stewart, Hollenbach and John Mills, of West Simsbury, and the Whittlesey were in the actiou of July widow of Samuel Tuller, whom she mar- 3, 1778. Lieutenant Elisha Scovill «.> iTXCT. one-married 2d Francis was in command of Fort Wintermoot Garrett in 1722, and after his death in when it was surrendered to Colonel John 1731 she married 3d, 1745, Captain Joseph Butler. Lt. John Jenkins, Jun’r, was a Woodford, who was born 1676 and died prisoner, and Captain Stephen HardiDg 1760 The record of her children will ap- was in Fort Jenkins. It must not be pear later. Nothing is known of the early forgotten that the 24th regiment was ate of John Garrett, beyond the fact of somewhat deranged by the call of Congress his marriage and the names of his children in, 1776 for the two companies from Wy¬ tie first appears in the annals of Con¬ oming Valley commanded by Captains necticut as au officer in the militia of the Dfirkee and Ransom. The captains of town of Westmoreland. tae regiment after the formation of these Owing to the many conflicts between jjsbmpanies were James Bidlack, William Indians and whites, Pennamites and ■Hooker Smith, John Garrett, Nathaniel l ankees, in that part of Pennsylvania Landon, Asoph Whittlesey, William Mc¬ known as the town of Westmoreland and Kerachan, Jeremiah Blanchard, Rezin claimed by Connecticut as a part of her Geer, Stephen Harding, Lazarus Stewart, domain, the Connecticut assembly during RobertCarr and Eliot Famam (Conn in the the sessions of May and October, 1115 Revolution, xv:43). in response to the memorial of Colonel William Judd, appointed Major May, Zebuton Butler and Joseph Sluman, 1775 (Conn. Col. Rec. xv:43), was elected the town of Westmoreland into a then living in Wyoming Valley, liav- county and created the Twenty-fourth jing located there in 1774 or 1775. regiment of militia for its protection, to He was in Farmington in 1774. Heit- be composed of men taken—rank and man records him as Major from August r ° "f,ro,E? that section of the county of to October, 1775. He became Captain of Litcbflmd (Force, 1,860). As a full and the third Connecticut Line January 1, ceurate list of the companies and offl- 1777, retired January 1, 1781, and re¬ this regiment has never yet ap- sided until his death in Farmington, Conn. peared in any history of the Wyoming He was one of the justices of the peace XV °P l U 8ivea kere from Volumf in the county of Westmoreland, appointed AX'’,)loQlaJ>Records of Connecticut: by the Assembly of Connecticut May, May,b 1775 Butler> Colonel, appointed 1775, and June 1, 1778 (Miner 211, Col. iRec. of Conn., xv., n, 279). Miner gives ' Na.th,ati Denison, Lieutenant Colonel 1 au account of his arrest and imprison¬ unted May, 1775. ment in Philadelphia jail September 20, illiam Judd, Major, appointed May, 1775 (p. 168), from which he was diis- | charged in December, 1775. (Conn. His. "Coll.’ii., 328). His subsequent bis-] Dec. 29, 1775, before Zebulon Butler, jus¬ jry as a friend of the Wyoming settlers tice, and witnessed by Jacob Dyer and and members of the Susquehanna com¬ Zsbulon Butler; not recorded until Jan. pany will be found in Connecticut His¬ 29, 1789, by John Carey, administrator of tory, and in Miner .380, 412, &c., &c. Garrett’s estate. Several interesting facts in this connec¬ Darius Spofford, of Westmoreland, for tion seem to have, so far, escaped the no- £50 paid him by John Garrett of same tice of Wyoming historians. place, September 23, 1776, conveyed to; The U. S. Congress, August .20, 1776, Garrett lot No. 21, Third division,district immediately after appointing the officers ; of Wilkesbarre. Witnessed by Jonathan: for the two Wyoming companies, “au¬ Fitch and Jeremiah Bickford; recorded] thorized the Select Committee to send to January 29, 1789. John Murphy, of j Captain Durkee 200 lbs of powder and a Westmoreland, for £160 paid by “Major proportionate quantity of lead for the use John Garrett,” of same place, March 20, ] of the two Westmoreland companies, and 1778, conveyed to Garrett lot No. 22, Zebulon Butler, Esq., was appointed to Third division “in the town of Wilkes-: supply these companies with provisions, berry.” Witnesses. Nathan Denison: and was allowed therefor at the rate of and J. Baldwin. Recorded. January 29, 1-12 part of a dollar per ration until fur¬ 1789 (Deed. Bk. I. p. 120, 121). Of this] ther order of Congress. ” property we will hear later qaa It is not i Congress also, September 10, 1776, “Re¬ known that Major Garrett lijgga upon it; I solved, That $4,000 be sent to Zebulon but the deeds show that he resided here] Butler, Esq., for the use of the two com¬ : from 1775 to 1778. Of the personal his¬ panies ordered to be raised in the town of tory of Major John Garrett during these; Westmoreland, he to be accountable for four years very little is knowD. Miner: the same, and that the money be delivered names him but twice, excepting in the] to and forwarded by the Connecticut dele¬ list of slain in the massacre. He does gates.” not mention him in his very entertaining] “Resolved, That Major William Judd be appendix “The Hazleton Travellers,”! authorized to muster the said companies doubtless because so little was known of (“Journals of Cong, n, 329”). The his history. mustering in occurred Sept. 17, 1776, and His first appearance in Wyoming his¬ Oct. 1776, Congress voted an additional tory is of great interest, and highly credi¬ sum of $2,000 to be paid to Colonel Zebu¬ table to his character as a soldier, but it lon Butler for the use of the companies fills one with regret that so little] {id, 411). is tknown of the mac. It was in Whether Major William Judd resigned connection with Colonel William] his majority in the 24th Connecticut regi¬ Plunkett’s invasion of the Valley ment before Oct., 1775, is not known. of the Wyoming, Dec. 24, 1775, with a] His rank as Major was recognized by Con¬ military force of seven hundred men, os- [; gress in 1776 as we see above. tensibly to aid the sheriff of Northumber-j But he was succeeded in the 24th regi- " land county to serve some civil suits ment by George Dorrance, appointed against the Connecticut settlers. Miner I Major Oct., 1775. In May, 1777, Lieut. says, “the cruelly of the contemplated at¬ Col. Nathan Denison succeeded Zebulon tack was sensibly felt, intended, it was! Butler as Colonel of the regiment. Cap- g not doubted, like that on the Muncy set¬ tain Lazarus Stewart succeeded Nathan tlement, to effectuate the entire expulsion Denison as Lieut. Colonel. He resigned of the whole people” of the Valley. in 1777 and was succeeded Oct., 1777, by Colonel Zebulon Butler, then acting in Major George Dorrance, promoted Lieut,. his miiltary capacity of Colonel of the Colonel,and Dorrance was succeeded Oct., 24th Connecticut militia, with a force of * 1777, by Captain John Garrett, promoted about 300 men and boys, indifferently Major (Conn, in the Rev., p. 440; also armed, made preparations to meet the in- ’ Heitman’s Historical Register of the Con¬ vaders. “Having encamped,” says tinental Line and Colonial Records of Miner, “with his three hundred Conn.) men on the flat near the uuion At what date Major John Garrett moved j of Harvey’s Greek with the Susquehanna, from Connecticut to Wyoming Valley is he despatched Major John Garrett [then. not known. His name does not occur in Lieutenant Garrett], his second in com-| any record prior to 1775. Although at maud, to visit Col. Plunkett with a flag, i that time aged 48, he held no civil office and desired to know the meaning of his here, nor does he appear to have engaged extraordinary movements, and to demand in business, and probably came here in his his inteutions in approaching Wyoming ( military capacity as lieutenant of the First with so imposing a military array. The •* Company, Twenty-fourth regiment. He answer given was that he came peaceably 1 bought land here in 1775 and 1776, as the as an attendant on Sheriff Cook, who was following deeds show: authorized to arrest several persons Daniel Downing, of Westmoreland, at Wyoming, for violating the laws of County of Litchfield, Colony of Connecti¬ Pennsylvania, and he trusted there would cut, p. £12 paid him by “Lieut. John be no opposition to a measure so reasons-1 Garrit, of said Westmoreland,” December ble and pacific!” Major Garrett on his re¬ 6, 1775, conveyed to Garrett, lot No. 22, turn reported that the enemy outnum-| second division, district of “Wilkes- bered the Yankees more than two to one. I Barre,” containing three acres and three- “The conflict” said he, “will be a sharp I quarters of land. Deed acknowledged onq boys. I for one am ready to die, if j ' ' ' road nee* be, for my ^country. ’ ’ (Mfner;~173.) second. He married a (laughter of Thorn,. 'F Inis patriotic declaration, fit motto to Cairn, and built his cabin at a spring on grace his monument, found its exposition the Third mountain, on property now be¬ three years later on the field of the massa- longing to Harry Zeiders, who is a de¬ t1*^ merilor&ble occasion, Major scendant of the first Ludwig. It is only John Garrett supported Col. Zebulon JBut- a few years since that the cabin was torn ,ler, commanding the right wing of the down. | American line. The conflict was a sharp Prior to the Revolution, a friendly jone, and Garrett fell early in the action Indian had his cabin ®n the north side of during the hot fire which Miner says not Peters’ mountain, near the spring which sustained tor half an hour. Ho survivor supplies the water-trough on the pike. saw him fall, but none saw him retreat. Here he lived fur years unmolested. One There were not wanting those who could evening, in the fall of the year, Mrs. tell how Hewitt and Spafford.Bidlack and ' Minsker, while standing in the door-way, Whittlesey, Durkee and Whiton,Donahew heard a loud moan, resembling that of and Shoemaker acted, and bravely met some one in extreme agony. She told her their fate, but the veil of silence has husband, who replied that it was the cry hidden from our knowledge how Garrett of a panther. Still listening, she found ‘‘died for his country.” That he did his by direction of the sound that the person duty, and fell in the very front ot the was going up the mountain—but Ludwig, battle, is all that may ever be known. to quiet her, said she must be mistaken, it was only the cry of the panther. The en¬ [By request we reprint the following which appeared In Notes and Queries some years ago.! suing summer, the cows remained out be¬ yond the usual time and the children were sent in search of them. Going up the AN EARLY SETTLER IN’ ARK’S mountain they came to what was then VALLEY. called, and still known as, the “King’s A gentleman, who has been recently Stool,” when they found a skeleton lying through the length and breadth of Clark’s under it. Informing their father of the Valley sends us the following: fact, Ludwig examined the remains— Ludwig Minsker, an emigrant from the found by the hunting shirt, which was in¬ .Palatinate located in Clark’s Valley in tact that it was the Indian, referred to. It 1750. He built his cabin on a run near the appeared that some ill-disposed whites place where the house of John Hocker ir. had gone to the cabin of the Indian and now stands. He was a man of great wantonly shot him, but did not kill him. courage, and the Indians of the neighbor¬ With his little strength remaining the hood, fearing him, never molested him or poor Indian crawled up and then down his family. the side of the Fourth mountain, across It was subsequent to Braddock’s defeat, Clark's Valley; then up Third mountain that hostile Indians crossed over the to the “King’s Stool,’’where he died from mountains and spread death and desola¬ exhaustion. The rock alluded to is a huge tion on the frontiers. While out huatin°- boulder heaved on the top of another, and during the spring of 1756, Ludwi

MRS. FLOMB ECOLLECTIONS. faSto5le‘“„!isk.e hi“'” ““ Some Interesting Joints on Life In Haa- child, who was concealed with his over Township tn the Early Fart of the 'r w the chest, became Ludwig the Century, , ' £ . IL [The following is a continuation of the recollections of Mrs., Jniia Anna Blackman Plumb;1 now living in Hanover, at the age of 82, I heard mother tell of a little matter that as ^jcftten down by her feon, H. B. Plumb.] happened while she was a girl, living at her Tfce first preacher I remember was called mother’s, on the River Road, near the Red Pafidook, and I think he was a Methodist. Tavern. A man that lived down the river- He preached at Rufus Bennett’s house in the about a mile from her house, towards Nane evening, and mother went to hear him, and ticoke, was heard one night before bedtime I was only a little bit of a girl, about 1800, yelling aud swearing in a loud voice for a 8he took me along. I and Pattie Minerva good while. They knew the voioe, and all Bennett at first sat on ohairs or benches, but the family went out of doors to hear the so many people came and it got so orowded raoket. The next morning they saw him go¬ we had to give up our seats to grown people. ing by their house towards Wilkes-Barre,! There was a small room by the end of the and they aeked him what the noise was down larger one and there was a bed in it and a his way last night. He said he was orossing fire aod we were orowded in there, and in the river in his boat from Shawney, and there Selest Bennett had “a beau, the water was very high and the night very and as we did not like to stand there look¬ dark and rainy, and be got lost, and ing at them crawled under the bed. People couldn’t find the shore, and so he went to oame all the way from Nantiooke at Col. oursing and swearing as hard as he could Washington Lee’s to this meeting, more and he got ashore at last. If he hadn’t than four miles. They oame so far, and at sworn as hard as he did he should never have night, too, beoause meetings were so scarce. been able, he said, to manage his boat and Ann Jameson, a little girl like me, and her he should have been “drownded,” but he parents, Squire Samuel Jameson and Mrs. swore so hard that he got ashore at last and Jameson, were there, also from Nantiooke, saved himself. and she sat in their laps. I think the lady When I was a very little girl and used to i (tat Philip Weeks afterwards married go to Wilkes Barre with my mother and was there. She was some relative to Col. father, the first house along the Middle Road Lee’s wife, and lived there, I believe, and I after passing Askam’s Corner—where L. L. think her name was Campbell. I think Nyhart lives now—was the stone house. that was before the sohool house wes built in Perry Gilmore lived in it. The next was the end of Hog-Back, near Rufus Bennett’s. Willis Hyde’s, where Richard Metcalf now This was before I had gone to any school, lives, across the creek from the stone and I must have been about four or less. I house. Opposite Metcalf’s a private don’t think there was any oleared land road or lane turns off from the by the side of ours then. Bennett’s house main road to the right and runs around was near the Middle Road, and ours near a hill dose by the mam road, and baok of the Baok Road, about a half mile apart. I that hill, some twenty or thirty rods from heard mother say ihat when she first moved the Middle Road, is the Rufus Bennot here, in 1791, from Wilkes-Barre, the trees house, and fifteen or twenty rods or further were standing so near the house that if any beyond Bennett’s dwelling were some more of them had fallen or been blown down to¬ houses, all built before I was born. Ben¬ wards the house they would have fallen on nett’s house and the others where they it. But that was in 1791, and this meeting stood there could not be seen from the was about 1809 or ’10, and our land was Middle Road. On the left of the lane as more oleared up then. I think Perry Gil¬ you entered it, and opposite to the Willis, more lived in tue stone house on the Middle Hyde or Metoalf house, there was builtl Road then and kept a tavern there. He many years afterwards—after the time e used to borrow father’s neok-kerohief to was snob a little girl—a house close by ths wear when he went to Wilkes-Barre. Father road. Rufus Bennett. Jr., built it, but it was sent sister Betsey—she was six years older I never finished, and no one ever lived in it. than I—there once after his necktie or hand¬ They used to have preaching in it some¬ kerchief, when he did not return it, and she times, but it was soon taken down, and took me along. Gilmore had it on his Rufus went West. But when I was the very neok when we went there, and he little girl, the next house along the road was mad because father had sent for it. He was James Wright’s, near Lorenzo was an Irishman and his wife was a Dutoh Ruggles’, but I learned afterwards that there woman. In the same little hollow where were houses between, only they were baok Rufus Bennett’s house stood, there stood at from the road and out of sight pretty muoh. that time two or three houses some twenty There was Henry Hoover’s house baok some¬ or thirty rods further on up towards John where to the right, and Edward Edgerton’s Hoover’s, and a man by the name of Co¬ back to the left; and then still nearer, this vert lived in one and a man by the name of side of Edgerton’s, near where Hoover Paul Thorp lived in another, but I don’t re- afterwards took out coal on the left, was , member who lived in the third. I think where Aunty Warner lived. It was in the they stood pretty near together and all be¬ hollow southwest of the present Hoover longed to Bennett. Hill sohool house, some forty rods or so Covert had a son 10 or 12 years old that Aunty Warner was a hired girl at the Slo- was sick or orszy, and they thought he was oum’s in Wilkes-Barre when the Indians in bewitched. He was lying in bed down the fall of 1778 carried off Franoes Slooum. stairs, and every once in a while he would Aunty Warner ran off to the fort with one start up, open his eyes and stare towards the of the Slooum ohildren in her arms, while oeiling or joists above, and point with his the Indians took up a little boy, and the finger from plaoe to place and cry out There mother, showing the Indian he was lame, she is! There she is! Covert got a heavy the Indian put him down and took up the lit¬ club and one time when the boy pointed his tle girl and carried her off. Aunty Warner finger and oried There she is, he struck a had lived at what is now called Sugar Notch, whaok up against the floor and joists above near the creek that crosses the baok road as hard as he could at the plaoe the boy there. But he lived over here near the Mid¬ I pointed to, and an old woman sitting there dle Road when I was a littie girl, and died in the room on a low ohair, helping them here, I think about 1820, when I was about during child’s siokness and then knitting, 14 years old. She lived with Johnny Bur¬ had not seen him prepare to strike screamed gess. Johnny Burgess was a boy whose par¬ and jumped and fell on the floor. So they ents were very poor, and Aunty Warner thought sure she must be the witoh, and that didn’t have any ohildren, and so she took the club hit her up against the upper floor him when a little child and brought him up. and made her scream and fall out of her chair. 19

.jnny got married, and when Aunty War- men that used to walk up and down the road si s husband died and Aunty was getting on the side of the hill at what was then or dand feeble, Johnny thought so muoh of afterwards Christian Nagle’s house, where _ jr that hd took her to his own house and there was a spent and a trough for horses kept her till she died there, or rather, per¬ and cattle to drink at. haps, he returned her kindness in kind, My brother, Harry Blaokman. married whioh is about the same thing as thinking and staid here, but Ebenezer went to Ohio, muoh of her. This was his house baok in when come of age (1814). Then when this hollow. I don’t remember Aunty Ward brother Hurlbut (Blaokman) came of age ner’s name before she was married. I usex he got siok, and could not work. He used to visit her with mother. I think the next ^orldBa,h°r8e to WiUtes-Barre every once house to James Wright’s was .Lorenzo Hag¬ m a while to see the dootor. After about a gles’. across the oreek from Wright’s. yew or illness he concluded to go West and There was a house, some years afterwards see if he would’nt get better (1816). He moved from some place beyond Buggies and oame back some years afterward on horse- put on a lot just under what is now called ' l? of 5n a VIB*^’ and tied his horse and oame Hoover Hill, where the school house now in and asked if he oould stay to dinner and ! stands. That was an old house when it was j have his horse fed. We did’nt know him, moved there, and Nathan Bennett lived in it but mother went up to him and asked him afterwards. It was not there in my earliest if he was’nt some of onr folks. He laughed reoolleotion or the houses along this road SPd 8aid he wa8> and then she knew him. here, for I went to sohool by these houses a There was no oanal then, and I don’t know year or so after my first recolleotions. Henry how he went West, but he told us that whe£ Hoover’s house on the hill across the road had been on the boat a from the sohool house was not then built, few days he could eat pork and nor Mrs. Whipple’s, behind the sohool house, any of them. PHe went or nearly behind it. Jaoob Worthing built J?.Troy> Miami Co., Ohio, where Brother j a house somewhere near Lorenzo Buggies’ Ebenezer was. When he went baok. Sister house, and he had a loom that threw the Betsy went with him (1820), intending to shuttle itself. I was a little girl, and went stay only a year and then oome home again {in there with Lavina Buggies to see but when she was ready to oome HnS it, and I put my foot on the ^ B10k and she didn’t oome. Then she treadle, and as it went down it I beoamfl nfg0t married- Tben Brother Elisha drove the shuttle across to the other side, I Ohte7l8^8%KDd *}f,went West, also to and then I put my foot on the other treadle andmThey 811 learned tradeB there, and it threw it the other way. I think Jaoob and staid in Troy, exoept Elisha, who got Worthing himself was on the loom and told riedneTh£,d wei*iu Indiana. They all mar- me to do it, and when the shuttle went .They are all dead now. The country aoross he drew up the lay and so sho wed me the Vi? these early times was unhealthy, but how it worked. Lovina Buggies was a little they all lived to be about seventy years eaoh younger than I. She was Buggies’ oldest j exoept Ebenezer, They eaoh of them oame child, and died while she was a little girl, Ebflf 8 l«° father before he died, with the measles, I think. Jacob Worthing’s bbenezer and his family came in iftSQ nn(i wife was a daughter of Comfort Cary. EnS»b>„? ta,18fr Worthing’s wife died young, and then he broke up housekeeping. They had only one child, a boy, a baby then. It was named Comfort Cary Worthing. The child grew up to manhood, and afterwards taught 1 sohool at the Lutsey settlement, and used to stop here at oar house sometimes. That This wasdforPth: «°Ven 8Bd dyed at home, loom wasn’t used much afterwards, I think. xms was tor the common wear, but neon!* It w is thought it dic-i, nake the doth as generally had a suit “for nice” thirt was good. ginSri fa°therrattier0 bouboughttZ8tQff me -a Woahoo^en 1dress waB ali at ttle2K j There was a house hear frhere Buggies’ cents a yard. He thought it was so ofaeaD bQilt‘ where aD old fadfdVnt Bai 8t the flrst washing it aHf man called “Blind Davis” lived. He was &^and we dyed it over at home. blind and his wife was deaf. He sold out Ualioo that was good for anything was 30 and went to Ohio to live, blind as he was, cents a yard. 1 don’t think anybody around have been Biz or seven years old then. Buggies must have built his w?imeWn°thn^rk3,»in 6X0ept ‘hat old*colored house about that time, I think. :r“iw-s&sf siS'ii. is Benjamin Cary’s house was next, on the right a little ways from the road, but I kn°w muoh about it. He was a I m?? cf B?w bnt his name was Joseph Taylor, fa“es Wright’s wife. Mr. Cary lid Shots was an old woman when I w«a and* and 1 heard Mrs. Cary say young,and lived in Wright or Slocum Town- they had to pay three times for it. Her !blp* ae !t was afterwards called, and’ used name was Meroy Abbott. Jaoob Fisher’s to come oyer the mountain to our side on house was next on the left. The old r.tb, tomrf to,f £ 0“oe,“\S3 house where Jacob Fisher’s father *»'«• Bti11 standing and was back nf „Jhe “ew one Quite a number fi.a?u there was a roa

He was then only twenty-three years of age, He had Been an officer (a lieutenant, I think) and had sought the shores of America in’ in the army of Frederick the Great, and after compliance with the requirements of the the Seven Years’ War had served as adjutant French Directory, and out of regard to his to Chavlos William Frederick, Prince of mother’s wishes. Brunswick and brother-in-law of George III., j The ship America was owned by the house King of England. Schott having come to of Conyngham & Nesbitt, then and for many America and offered his services to the strug¬ years one of the most extensive mercantile gling colonists, was, by vote of the Continen- establishments in Philadelphia, and when the tal Congress on Sept. 7, 1776, appointed ship reached port Mr, David Hayfloid Con¬ captain in the Continental Army and di- yngham invited the duke to lodge at his resi¬ I rooted to report to General Washington at dence on Front street, which he did for sev- | New York City. |era! weeks, anAthen established' himself in Captain Schott’s first appearanoe in the la house on sflice street, near Third. I Wyoming Valley was in 1779, when he com- David Hayiield Conyngham was the father j manded the Right Wing of Hand’s Brigade in of the Hon. John Nesbitt Conyngham, for so [General Sullivan’s army. i many years a resident of Wilkes-Barre and In 1783, having three years before married president judge of the courts of Luzerne a daughter of Jacob Sill, he became a citizen County—a man who was “honored as an up¬ of Wilkes-Barre. right and learned judge, revered as a Chris¬ Jean Francois Dupuy was a native of Bor¬ tian without ostentation, respected as a citi- deaux, France, and he came into Pennsyl¬ ; zen without reproach.” vania in 1791 from the Island of St. Do¬ Watson in his “Annais of Philadelphia,” mingo, where he had lived for a number of says that the Duke d’ Orleans “arrived in years and accumulated considerable prop- Philadelphia about the year 1700.” This i erty. He was a man of agreeable manners statement is, of course, erroneous, as Louis ■and of much intelligence, and was highly Philippe made but one visit to the United j esteemed in Wilkes-Barre, where ha resided States, and that was in 1796. [until his death in 1S36. For thirty-seven On the 6th February, 1797, the Duke was years he was Tyler of Lodge Gl. joined by his brothers, the Duke de Kont- The other members cf the lodge whose .; pensier and the Count do Beaujolais, after names I have mentioned were prominent citi- 1 their release from three years’imprisonment , zens of Wiikes-Barre and largely identified in the political prison at Marseilles. In the I with its _ early history; you are, I am cer- following June (and not “in the Summer of ! tain, familiar with their names and deeds 1799,” as “Senex” says in his “Interesting j brethren of Lodge 61 entertained their Reminiscence”) the three exiles set out on distinguished brother from “Le Grand Orient horseback for Luzerne County. I de France” during his short stay in Wiikos- They sojourned in Wilkes-Barre for a few ■ Barre; and I am inclined to believe that, by days and then went up along the Susque¬ [reason of their intelligence, their knowledge hanna River to what is now Bradford County, of the world, their sauoir-vive, those “first” where they owned a largo tract of land upon [citizens were not only competent to, but did, and near which a colony of French emigres to the best of their combined abilities, make had but a little while before settled. | things pleasant for their foreign brother and While in Wilkes-Barre the travelers were j his brothers. entertained at the old inn which stood on I Louis Philippe, who could and would at Bank (now River) street, on the spot where the proper time, effectively display all the now stands the residence of the late E. P. [dignity of a monarch, turned out his popular | Darling, Esq. I am inclined to think that ] or bourgeois side during his sojourn in this “Senex” has made an error in stating that [ country. the inn “was kept at the time [of the visit of Though his voice was far from melodious, the Orleans princes] by a Mr. Morgan.” I ana he spoke in a pleasing tone without the quite certain that John P. Arndt, who had slightest suggestion of the condescension come to W’ilkes-Barre from Easton, Pa., was peculiar to the elders of his family, and this, proprietor and landlord from 1803 to 1818, with the kindly twinkle of the eye and and, I think, also for several years prior to the generous fullness of the well tljat period. curved lips, constituted an expression Louis Philippe was a Free Mason, having jof bonhomie decidedly r we-dispeliiun- .-5 been admitted to a Lodge in Paris in the year [and even attractive. It was said 1792, his father—the notorious “Egaiite,” the [after the close of his reign as King, that no |then Duke d’Orleane—being at the time ruler of France ever equalled him in versa¬ 'Grand Masterof Masons in France. tility of manner, or to speak more accurately, In the year 1797 Lodge No. 61, F. and A. M., in unaffected naturalness; owing no doubt to of Wilkes-Barre, was three years old. It his miscellaneous experience of life iu almost j numbered sixteen members, and its place of every station of humanity. While in this meeting was at the house of Capt. John Paul country he was for several weeks a. truest at Schott (a charter member and Past Master Mount Vernon. of the Lodge) on North Main street, just Going out very early one morning he found about where the Record building now stands. j General Washington riding over his estate, Capt. Samuel Bowman was Worshipful Mas¬ [and he said: “General, you are an early ter of the Lodge, Judge Jesse' Fell Senior riser.” “Yes,” said Washington, “I rise Warden, Maj. Eleazer Blackman Secretary | early because I sleep well; I sleep well be¬ iand Jean Francois Dupuy Tyler. cause I never have ivritten anything whioh I Captain Schott was a man of distinguished | care to recall. Young man, remember that.” character and ability, was fifty-three years of Some years ago Louis Philippe’s son, the lago, and had seen a good deal of thy world. Duke d’Aumale, authenticated this anecdote «nd said that this injunction of Washington their "constancy are above praise! Their madshisfatherduringthe whole of his subse¬ moral virtues,, honesty, sobriety, iove of quent career the most cautious of men; and] order, humanity ana' benevolence arej that many a lettef; expression, or procla-| ,abundantly'set forth in their laws framed mation was never published on account of and executed by themselves.”' General Washington’s advice to him as at Ancient Records. young man, We find in the ancient records orthe Louis Philippe and his brothers lived in town that the town meetings, composed Philadelphia altogether for about two years,: in its membership of the proprietors and and in the directory of that city for 1793 will| settlers of the district,'deliberated upon be found their names as “D ’Orleans, Messrs., . and decided all business' affecting the wel¬ fare of the people, whether of secular or merchants, near 100 South Fourth street.” religious concerns. The minutes of those 17 Julv, 1893. O. J. H. meetings often contain the action taken to provide for the defence of the settle- , ment against the imminent attack of the enemy, and in the next paragraph record From,. the setted minister and the manner in | which the salary is to be raised. Here is one of the records: Nov. 1773. Voted that . those who belong to Hanover shall mount .L:. • guard in ye block house where Gapt. Stew¬ art now lives, and those that live in Kings¬ ton shall come over and do ye duty in ye fort at Wilkes-Barre. Voted that Mr. Date, ; Christopher Avery is appointed to collect in those species that ye proprietors and settiers'have signed to ye support of ye History of the.-Cjhurch. Rev. Jacob Johnson ye year expiring. The following able "jlmper was prepared in 1768 the Susquehanna compaiiy en¬ by Sheldon Reynolds, Esq., and was read gaged Rev. Geo. Beckwith of Lyme, by George Bedford, Esq., last evening: Conn., for pastor in the wilderness The history of the First Presbyterian country. He was a Congregational min church during many years after its organ¬ ister and a graduate of Yale college o: ization in 1773 is so interwoven with the m i 1766. He remained but one year in charge history of the settlement of Wyoming, as at Wyoming. Rev. Jacob Johnson vra: f to be nearly identical therewith. The con- called from Mew Lngianu to fin his place, he latter died in Wilkes-Barre in 1797. - troverey between the Connecticut settlers i'm |and the proprietary government involv- t. Dorrance says of him: “He was •* ing the poiiticial jurisdiction of Wyoming. man of very considerable learning, emi }■ began with the first attempts to form a ent for his piety and was always highly] settlement within the territory; but after steemed.” The next pioneer minister o a few years gave place to the exciting which there is a record was Rev. Elias Vo. events of the Revolutionary war, the chief unsehooten, of the German Reformed! St.of which concerning the people here, was iiurch. He was .a great, worker and wa the battle and massacre of Wyoming. nstrumental in establishing in 1791 thi At the close of the war the old contro¬ ongregational society of Hanover town-] hip. He was a graduate of 'Princeton on versy was renewed with resolute purpose |1768. i and increased bitterness. Services in a Log House. Gov. Hoyt in his brief of title in the .aseventeen townships says; “The con¬ In 1791 services were held in the then troversy herein attempted to be set forth, new log court house on the Public Square;* 1 ■one hundred years ago, was raging with its use in part as a house of worship was great fierceness, evoked strong partisan¬ continued until the completion, several ships, and was urged on both sides by the years later, of tho church budding known highest skill of statesmen and lawyers. In as Ship Zion. At a town metting held its origin it was a controversy over the! April i, 1791, it was voted that there be a |;v political jurisdiction and right of soil in a| committee of five appointed to select a tract of country containing more than spot of ground fora meeting house. This five million acres of land, claimed bv Penn- was composed of Zebulon Butler, Nathan sylvania and Conneticut. It involved the Waller, David Gore, Timothy Pickering lives of hundreds, was the ruin of thous¬ and John P. Schott. This was the first ands and cost the State millions. It was effort to build a church in this vicinity. righteously settled in the end.” From the fact that the action was taken The settlers were mainly New England at a town meeting there were evidently men, excepting in the township of Han¬ few dissenters from the prevailing form of over: they came from Lancaster county, worship—that is Congregationalism, or as Pa. The New England men were Congre- it was then commonly called Presbyter¬ gationalists and Presbyterians, and those ianism. This building was erected on from Lancaster county were Presbyterians, North Main street in 1803. mainly from the North of Ireland. In a Dr. Murray was the first regular Presby¬ sermon preached in 1853 Dr. Dorrance, terian minister to hold services in Wilkes- alluding to the character of these people, Barre and it was through his efforts that a says: “The ancestors of both the Puritans new church was erected at a cost of •‘$4,000. and the Scotch Presbyterians had been Rev. John Dorrance succeeded him and tried in the furnace of affliction; they had was installed Aug. 33, 1833. He . extended suffered persecution in tiie old world and the field of his labors throughout the endured hardships in the. new. Their county, preaching for a time regularly at principles, confirmed by a long and pain¬ Nanticoke and Newport, also at regular ful experience of oppression, privation and intervals in Pittstou and Providence. The . war, were inherited by their children.” influence of the church was much extended Dr. Dorrance says: “They were not com¬ I and several churches were afterward organ¬ mon men who emigrated to this unknown ized within the localities thus visited. Out wilderness of Wyoming to make them of the Providence church soon afterward selves a home; their labors, their valor. grew the church of Scranton. 53

Dorrance ,_ ;istecf in these labors (though he stood alone, the Supreme d in other missionary"rywork wui a Inm tliii*nis re*-re¬ gion J>y several missionaries stationed Executive Council (of whioh he was the here from time to time under his charge. head) and the Assembly, being against Under the auspices of this church also the him. He vigorously remon¬ Wilkes-Barre female Institute was estab¬ lished in 1851 and a substantial brick strated against expelling the building was erected for this school at a Connecticut people, against whose cost of $.12,000. During Mr. Dorr&nco’s claims the Decree of Trenton had ministry the frame building that had served as a house of worship since 1883 decided In 1783. His remonstrance was was removed and trie handsome Gothic joined to that of another governmental structure now used by the Osterhout Free body called the Council of Censors, but Library was built in its place. There were several periods of unusual it was utterly unheeded by the agents religious interest under Dr. Dorranoa’s of the Pennsylvania landholders, who pastorate; one in 1837 and another in 1839 set to work to drive away from the when the efforts of the pastors were sup¬ Wyoming region the Connecticut set¬ ported by the preaching of the Rev. Daniel Bauer, and flty-four members were re¬ tlers as “intruders.” ceived into the church; also in 1832 when Two pages are devoted, 218-249, to about fifty were received, and again 1858 (the report of these Censors. They de- when seventy-eight united with the ihurch. Owing to the incompleteness of iplore the fact that the Decree of Tren- ihe record the number who joined the Iton had not been followed by peaceable ihurch during Dr. Dorrance’s pastorate of measures on the part of Pennsylvania. twenty-eight years cannot be given ac¬ “It [the Trenton Decree] promised,” curately. pr. Dorrance died April 18, 1801,! after a lifetime of honest Christian work. they say, “the happiest consequences The Rev. A. A. Hodge, D. D.; succeeded | to the confederacy, as an example was Dr. Dorrance and was installed in Septem¬ thereby set of two contending sover¬ ber, 1861. He was a graduate of Princeton college, 1841, and from Princeton Theo¬ eignities adjusting their differences in a logical seminary 1846. After a three years court of justice, instead of involving pastorate here the geuerai assembly in themselves, and perhaps their confeder¬ 1864 assigned him the post of Professor of ates, in war and bloodshed.” Didactic and Polemic Theology in the Allegheny seminary. He labored for sev¬ The Censors express regret that the eral years as a missionary in India. Connecticut people, now become sub¬ In 1864 Rev. S. B. Dod was installed pas¬ jects of Pennsylvania, were not left to tor and in 1S63 Mr. Dod was succeeded by prosecute their claims in proper course, the present pastor, Rev. F. B. Hodge, D. ID., wnose twenty-fifth anniversary as pa^ but that instead, troops had been sent 1 tor” we to-day celebrate.” to Wyoming, for no other ap¬ parent purpose than that of (promoting the interests of the From,- former Pennsylvania claimants; that these troops were continued there with¬ out the license of Congress, and in vio¬ lation of the confederation; that these soldiers and other disorderly persons were guilty of gross cruelty, in in- Fate, | humanly expelling the New England settlors, and driving them towards the ] Delaware through an almost impassa-' lent John Dickinson on Wyoming. (ble wilderness ; that these soldiers had In the valuable volume published not been maintained at a public cost of over ““: ago by the Historical Society of | four thousand pounds, without any pub¬ vauia, entitled “Life and Times lic advantage in view; that the author¬ Dickinson,” by Charles J. ity for raising these troops was given LL. D., is an interesting privately and entered on the secret ce to the Pennsylvania-Connec- journals of the House, and concealed land troubles of the last century, after the war with the savages had ttle of such discussion on that ceased and the inhabitants of Wyoming ; as has emanated from Phila- delp had submitted to the government of , phia has been friendly to the Connec¬ Pennsylvania. They close their remon¬ ticut claim, but Dr. Stilie does strance as follows; “Impressed with not hesitate to use strong language in the multiplied evils which have sprung J condemnation of the Pennsylvania au- from the improvident management of thonttes. He alludes to “the disgrace- this business, we hold it up to censure, m and iniquitous proceedings of to prevent, if possible, any further in¬ parties professing to act under the stances of bad government which might authority of the State in their attempt involve and distract our new formed dispossess by force the claimants nation.” i which were held in the Wyo- This humane remonstrance had no Valley under the Connecticut effect whatever upon the Supreme President Dickinson’s svmpa- Council or the Assembly and they both > with the Connecticut people, seem, says Dr. Stilie, to have been wholly under the influence of the Penn¬ ties Mr. Bates and family returned to their sylvania land claimants. President desolated home, where Silence became a Dickinson, whose humanity had been blooming maiden, and was married to a shown on a previous occasion by his toldter named James Biown, a sketch of efforts to supply the wretched inhabi¬ whose life was published in the lunkhaunock tants of the valley with food when they, Republican a few years ago. He helped Gen. had suffered the los3 of everything by Sullivan to avenge the atrocities of Wyoming and Cherry Valley, and served all through an ice-flood, and whose sense of justicei the war for Independence. Silence and her and ideas of policy wore both shocked by husband dwelt in Pittston for several years! the violence committed on the Wyo¬ after their marriage. Seven of their children ming people, now interpo sed once more were born there and one was born after their for th>*'r relief, and protested vigor¬ removal to Scott, which at that time was an ously a Inst a continued military op¬ almost unbroken wilderness. Mr. Brown pression of the Connecticut settlers. built both the first sawmill and But, like those which preceded it, his the first grist mill of that town then called Greenfield. Mrs. Brown was an esteemed impressive protest produced no change 1 member of the Baptist church of that place, in the legislation of the State or in the and was much loved and respected by her action of the militia who were sent to relatives and neighbors. Two of her sisters Wyoming. Nor was peace restored un¬ married brothers named Vosburg, and have til afterwards, justice, as urged by him, many descendants in Tuukhaunock and vi¬ was done to the settlers and until the cinity. She survived her husband five years, inhabitants who had fought with des¬ and died July 2d, 1848, aged 78 years. She, perate valor for the preservation of her husband and many descendants sleep in the old graveyard near Brown Hollow, On the their homes, had the defective Connect¬ land which was given by Mi. Brown for a icut titles to the lands which they had public burial place. Eld. Bishop’s grave is bought in good faith, quieted and con¬ also on the old Brown farm, but has never firmed by the irrevocable authority of been removed to the graveyard. Only odb Pennsylvania. child of Mr. and Mrs. Brown is now living, A goodly number of grandchildren, great¬ grandchildren, and one great-great-gr.md- child are still residents of Scott, Lackawanna County, while some of their descendants have found other homes. Near Mtb. B.’s grave is that of Reuben Taylor, of whom bis epitaph says: “He was a soldier of the Revolution, and fought for his country both on land and sea.”

Incident Regarding Frances Slocum. In 1778, after the massacre, Frances Slocum A Pioneer Maid of Wyoming. Was stolen from her home in Wilkes-Barre, The following item is from a Scranton at the corner of Canal and North streets. paper of 1878, and refers to Silence B ites, Bishop Bowman of St. Louis was the means whose parents were residents of Wyoming of identifying her over half a century from the Valley at the time of the massacre of 1778 : time of her capture. The story as told by When driven into Forty Fort by the Tories the bishop is as follows: “I had boen ap¬ and Indians, Silence was eight years of age, pointed president of a college in Indiana and and there were two or three younger chil¬ came there to live. Not long after my ar¬ dren. Often has she told her children and rival I heard of an Indian woman that seemed grandchildren her recolleotions of that horri¬ to me to answer the description of the little ble time. She, herself, while picking berries, girt with whose history I was well ac¬ was captured by a warrior and taken across quainted; Ibeing a native of Berwick. Pa. the river; but the following night, while her There were two marks, one a crushed finger, captor slept, a Tory neighbor, touched by the other a 9car on the neck, caused by a her grief, returned with her to the vicinity burn with a hot iron. The father of Frances of the Fort. Her parents were with those was a blacksmith, and one day, as she and who succeeded in escaping from the Fort, and her brother Joseph were playing in the shop, in their hasty flight her new shoes were left Joseph struck Frances a blow with the ham¬ behind. Without a word to anyone, she mer that crushed the finger. After being con¬ returned to obtain them, was fastened vinced of the identity of the person I wrot6 a in by the savages, who were prepar¬ letter to Ziba Bennett, a friend of mine and ing to burn the Fort, but a chief, grate¬ i relative of the Slocums at Wilkes-Barre, ful for kindness received from Mr. Bates,! mentioning the facts and immediately his in time past, procured her release and per¬ wife and Joseph Slocum, the girl’s brother, mitted her to hasten on to rejoin her anxious tame west to find the long lost sister. We friends. Her mother was so fortunate as to took them to the place where the woman was living among the Indians of her tribe, have a horse to ride, and the younger chil¬ dren rode with her; but Silence had to trudge and sought an interview. At first she re¬ mained perfectly silent, evidently regarding along on foot till her poor feet were sadly us us imposters. When one of the party, blistered. A Mrs. Marcy was of the party, however, took a bar of iron aud after putting and while on her way to a place of safety, be¬ it in the fire, took it out and went through came the mother of a child to whom she gave the name Thankful. At the close of hostili¬ the motion ol pounding it on the anvil, then preserving tfio records of ancestry the pub- a strange, peculiar expression came over her "(sher deems it a most favorable opportunity face. She was convinced that the parties to issue tbe work. A complete index of sur¬ were from her long forgotten home. The names will supplement, tbe volumes, which brother spoke of the crushed finger and she Fill bo printed in clearfaced type, on best of held it up, he spoke of the burn on the nock took paper, and furnished at the price of and she sjjowod the scar. The recognition was ejgfiplete. She clung to her Indian ISlOperset. The editor, Wiliam H. Egle, homeland she died universally belovoa by D., librarian of the State, will carefully he|-4dopted people.” j revise the entire series, and those desiring a copjr of this invaluable contribution to Penn¬ sylvania history, biography uud genealogy- THE :RECORD should subscribe at once’ |I— - . - v—I_— ' Wilke 5-Barre, Pa.

THURSDAY. .APR& 12, 1894. I[_ Dr. Erie's Historical Publication. Another volume of Dr. Egle’s Notes and : Queries, volume lof the fourth series, is con¬ cluded, and is a valuable addition to the his¬ tory of interior Pennsylvania. Dr. Egle’s position as Slate librarian enables him to glean much interesting and original informa¬ tion that would be difficult for persons other¬ wise situated to obtain. Among the inter¬ AN OLD TIME GAZETTE. esting things are “a diary of a journey of the Moravian missionaries Zeisberger and Lcuse- A Copy of this Paper Publl-hed by Dr. man in 1768; numerous sketches of matrons Palestou m 1858. of the Revolution; Ohio letters from “John of Lancaster,’’ who is John F. Meginness of It appears that we were correct in the Williamsport; register of Moravians who emi¬ opinion, expressed a couple of weeks ago, grated to Pennsylvania from 1747 to 1767, that old readers of the Gazette would be etc., e:c.” The matter is well arranged, particularly interested in our reproduction clearly printed, but is unfortunately without an index. of an English journal’s sketch of an early The following circular accompanies the editor of this paper—now Sir John Pules- number: ton. Our old friend, ’Squire Huthmaker, Proposals for Publishing by Subscription of Ransom, was among the veteran readers “Notes and Queries,” Historical, Biogra¬ phical and Genealogical, Delating to Inter¬ who perused the article, and he was so ior Pennsylvania; comprising the Original much interested that he searched his news¬ First and Second Series, Published from paper files for a copy of the Gazette 1878 to 1883: issued under Dr. Puleston. He succeeded Owing to the demand for copies of the Original Series of “Notes and Queries” pub¬ and was kind enough to forward it to this lished in the Harrisburg Daily Telegraph, [office, where it now is, as might be ex¬ comprising 42 numbers, and which did not pected, an object that attracts considerable^ appear in pamphlet form, as well as for the attention. reprinting of the First and Second Series of the same publication, of which only a few J Tlle paper is very well preserved. Wed¬ copies were printed and which have become nesday, November 10, 1858, is its date, exceedingly rare, M. W. McAlarney, Manager and the formal heading—carried by tbe of the Harrisbusg Publishing Company, has Gazette some years after the present concluded to print a limited edition of 100 copies of the same, comprising two quarto publisher first ent med the office—reads as volumes of'about 500 pages each, provided a follows: “PlTTSTON GAZETTE AND LUZERNE sufficient number of subscriptions be secured Anthracite Journal.” According to the to warrant it. standing editorial card, it was “Published Those series of valuable historical papers, relating to interior Pennsylvania, including weekly by J. Henry Puleston, in Jenkins’ ils biography and genealogy, have been new brick building, one door south of sought for by many persons during the past Olark’s new store, upstairs.” lew years, as they contain information, no In size it is seven columns to the page, where else to be found. The entire series does not consist of the repubiication of ar¬ about as long as the columns of the Even¬ ticles which appeared previously in print, ing Gazette, and the entire sheet contains ►- out Rre gleanings from original records of less reading matter than appear on the the oounties, towns, ohurehes, family and two outside pages of our regular evening public burial grounds, with original contri¬ issue. butions preserved in the more prominent lainilies of the State of Pennsylvania. The The advertisements are numerous, as material which will be embraced in the two well as interesting. Among the adveitisers tnea contemplated, is no where else we find the names of a few still with us, ccessbile. At tbe present time when so such as Charles Law, merchant; Frank research is made and interest taken in Brandenburg, baker; David Schooley, civil engineer; R. D. Laeoe, land; C. S. B. Goddard, M. D., Phila.; Wm. Corson, Blackbnrn, blacksmith; S. Stunner, boots M. D., Norristown, and Wells & Bean, and shoes; William Sax, grocer; Mrs. Mary Pittston) Dr. S. Lawton. Samuel Price i J. Smith, milliner; Mrs. E. Davies, dress advertises the People’s Cash Store, Weetj maker; D. Bossard, (saloon under Eagle Pittston. Hufford & Polen are proprietors! hotel) oysters; Dr. A. Knapp, “Eagle’’ of the Eagle Hotel, and Henry Stark ot the drug Btore; Lewis Cohen, mercantile; Butler House, Alva Tompkins, coal; Charles Parrish, The “Pittston High School” winter term secretary Wyoming Canal Co. Sales were is announced, with Wm. H. Jeffords, A. B , advertised by Jasper B. Stark, sheriff principal, Miss Liobie Jeffords, assistant! This was before tae smart county seat teacher,and Mrs. H. A. Jeffords, teacher of publishers got the law passed requiring music. The directors are Rev. N. G. j such notices to be printed in Wilkesbarre Parke, Rev. A. P. Mead, Rev. W. K. Mott, papers exclusively. Theo. Strong, R. D. Laeoe, R. J. Wisner, Special advertising features are the A. C. Thompson, J. Henry Puleston, C. notices of the railroads and canals, The Stark, Wm. Law, Samuel Price, David D. L. & W. announces “New Arrange¬ Morgan and Dr. C. E. Gorman. The “Lu¬ ments! No Mots Staging! Through to Phil¬ zerne Institute” at Wyoming is also adver¬ adelphia by Rail!” and prints the schedule tised; E. A. Lawrence, principal. of the one through express then ran, with The “religious notices” announce services a mass of details. The time between at the Presbyterian and M. E. churches; Pitfcston and Philadelphia was ten hours. Baptist, preaching every Sunday afternoon John Brisbin was superintendent. “The and evening by Rev. Wm. K. Mott in Wyoming Canal” occupied a good sized Cooper Hall; St. James’s church, service) space to announce tolls on freight and over C. Law & Co.’s store every Sabbath l coal. The Lackawanna and Bloomsburg at 10:30 a. m., and 3 p. m. The names of! Rovd, newly opened, also has a space, in 0. Stark, burgess, and T. Ford, clerk, are which special stress is laid on a $6 rate attached to a West Pittston borough ordi¬ from Rupert to New York. One “special nance, ordering a 5£ foot plank walk “on ■ notice” recalls to mind the robbing of the the north side of Luzerne avenue from the j Pennsylvania Coal Company’s vault of west side of Wyoming street to Linden $1,000 on October 21, 1858. A reward of street, provided that residents of Luzerne $500 was offered by M. D. L. Gaines, then avenue residing west of Linden street do j cashier for the company, for the capture all the grading and work required in the of the thieves and money, and ar ad¬ construct ion of said walk along the lot of ditional reward of $1,000 was offered by C. W. Carr. the citizens through R. D. Lacoe. A fur¬ Readers, in those days, were content ther reward of $50 is offered by Oscar with very little in the news line. More F. Gaines for the recovery of a gold watch space is devoted to general and political stolen at the same time. The notice sets matters than to local affairs in the old forth the facts that O. F. Gaines was issue before us. The “select poetry” in garroted and the key of the company’s the northwest corner of the first page vault taken from his pocket. which opened every weekly paper in those ; Among other familiar names that appear days is credited to Wm. Pitt Palmer—the • In the advertising columns are those of same still met with in our school speakers, l< Henry Cohen, Bowkley & Leyshon, S, “The Smack in School,” which tells the Sutherland, E. & B. Bevan, Mrs. M^Ardle story of an incident said to have happened j (formerly Mrs. Barlow), Sharps & Oliver, many years ago in Blanchard & Stebbins, V. Petersen, Samuel “A district school, not far away, Mid Berkshire hills,one winter’s day ” Levy, Ferris, Wisner & Co., (Strong Steam Flouring Mill) Benj. Jones, Wm. P. Blair Then there are several columns of a con¬ Richard Stephens, (Babbylonlron Foundry)) tinued story, and a considerable quantity Coray & Mantanye, Geo. Daman, Geo. of miscellaneous matter, including a “farm Price, Wm. Tompkins, Andrew A. Cun¬ and garden” column. ningham, (Luzerne Foundry) Mott, Carr & On the second page are editorials and Co.’s Steam Flouring Mill, Blakely Hall, local notes. The November State elections John Richards, Jr., (attorney) Geo. Laz¬ • were just over, and the editor takes occa¬ arus, A. G. Frick, Dr. C. R. Gorman, sion to call attention rather jubilantly to (office in the postoffice) Dr. Washington the Republican successes which seemed to Nugent, (who advertises as references, Paul have abounded that year. He also in¬ dulges in a half-column temperance; lecture. badly that the inscription was imperfect. In the ocal col umns la a long account o He was there to put one on the spot, a fac¬ the LuzerneCounty Teachers’ Institute held simile of the old stene as to the quality of in Pittston. Communications from “Citi- the stone and the lettering of the inscription. |zen” and others are of corn se given some The inscription road “Polly, wife of George space. The town had bad sidewalks then Gore, died 1813, aged 33 years.” His father, I George, emigrated to Illinois, where he died as now, and negligent property holders are |aged 70 years. In a line are three other lectured abont them. headstones bearing the following inscrip¬ An important item raeorled the first tions : “Daniel Gore, died Sept. 3,1809, aged 63 years.” This was Dr. Gore’s grandfather, meeting of the Pittstou Hose Company, who lost his arm in the massaoreof Wyom- now known as the Eagles, but apologized ina in 1778. His wife, Mary, died April, 11, for the reporter who, though present at the 1806, aged 68 years. Adjoing this is the meeting had failed to furnish a report of marble headstone over the remains of The¬ the proceedings. The establishment of the resia Carey, a daughter of Daniel Gore, born Fob. 11, 1771, died May 5,1854, aged 83 years, Kingston Guardian is noted, published grandmother of postmaster 0. M. Williams or by Kitchen & Denn, as also is the estab PlaiusviUe, who was a visitor with Dr. Gore brent of a Y. M. C. A. at Scranton. in the graveyard. A dozen more graves are Altogether the issue is a very interesting in the Bame spot which contain the remains at this late day. It gives one some idea of j of pioneers of Wyoming Valley, who played their part in its preservation against the at- ] the people and business of Pittston 86 years I tacks of the Indians. ago, aud affords an excellent opportunity ] After the inspection of the graveyard. Dr. for the contrast cf the conditions then and [Gore reverted to the spot he left 71 yearp ago now. VVe are not aware of (he existence for his Western home. "Here is tbe road that ran beside the graveyard from the top I of a file of the Gazette during the several of the hill to the river,” he said, “we grossed yeais it was published by Mr. Pulestou, the river in those days in canoes, as there | unless he preserved a file himself. If there were no ferry boats. It was used only to lie such a file anywhere it ought to be visit families on tbe other sido of the river, as they were pretty well all related. A brook I placed in tire historical society’s rooms at ,of crystal water flowed below in the hollow ! Wilkesbarre for preservation and reference. between us and the river, wbieh is hidden by the culm dump, and many a good day’s fishing my brother and I had. It was well i stocked with pickerel and other fish.” £ From, j Pointing to a large hiekory tree, between where the old homestead stood and tbe graveyard, he called to mind many youthful frolics underneath Its branches and many w 3 nutting excursions with the boys and girls of tho settlement. Dr. Gore also remembers I Date^^u^^..Y [/. scores of years ago of running to the grave¬ yard on a cold, icy day to see a funeral and falling backward on an elder stubble and IN' MA OLD CEMETERY. cutting the back of his head. He pointed out the scar to postmaster Williams on the Dr* Joel Gore Visited a Deserted City ol back of his head, which he still carried in the Dead and Beautifies the Graves of remembrance of the event. His Ancestors—Men and Women Active The old homestead site was visited. A | in the Days of Old Wyoming; Hurled in part of the cellar wall is still in view, a part i the Old Place. of whioh is now ocoupled by the old oom- j Not far from the upper Port Bowkley pa,ny barn. It was a large building with a !colliery on the side of the pUrnk road, over oentre chimney, and all the rooms had the which runs the East Side electric road, old fashioned grate. He related incident stands an old graveyard, which was estab¬ after iuaidont of days of yora. Before tho lished by the Gore family early in the history party separated in the old grave yard one of of Wyoming Valley. It is almost surrounded the party recited: by coal dumps. A rough fenee has been Oh, where are the friends of my youth. recently built around it, but it has long been Say, where are the cherished ones gone, negleoted, some of the descendants of the old Or why, have they dropped with the leaf, families who were buried there having had Oh, why have they left me to mourn? their dead removed to other cemeteries. Their voices still ring In my ears, Their visions I see In my dreams. Yesterday afternoon a, Recobd man who was And this world like a desert Is drear, in the neighborhood saw a little group of Like a wide spreading desert it seems. men with a wagon standing outside this ancient God’s acre. The centre figure of the group was Dr. Joel R, Gore of Chicago, who although four years over four score of age, was there to see that the spot where his mother was buried in 1818, when he was two mid a half years old, is not neglected. The i . headstone had nearly shaled away, so bellion among the two companies who had been] stationed there. At length the enemy concen-l trated their forces at Tioga and at the settle¬ ment of Elmira on the 13th of January, 1778, and then entered the Wyoming Valley, consist¬ ing of four hundred rangers ( Butler’s), one com¬ pany of Royal Irish Greens (Sir John Johnson), and five hundred Tories from New York, and about six hundred Iroquois Indians, the whole under the command of John Butler. On the 30th of June Butler at once assailed Among the many interesting spots tendered Jenkins Fort, into which had been collected the ; classic by the War of the Revolution is the Val- families of John Jenkins, the Hardings, the J& ley of Wyoming. It is in Luzerne county, Pa., ‘ Gardeners and others in that part of the valley. 336® extending from northeast to southwest, about In this assault not a soul was spared. The twenty-one miles in length, with an average news, however, was conveyed by a boy who breadth of three to five miles, and through its was working in the field nearby, and spread entire length the Susquehanna follows its wind¬ throughout the entire valley. By common con¬ ing course. Two ranges of mountains hem in sent, Zebulon Butler assumed command of the the valley, being of an average of nine hundred volunteer settlers, and on the next day, July 1st, feet, and it is diversified by hill and dale, un¬ he marched with all his force up to the scene of rivaled in expansive beauty, unsurpassed in the conflict on the preceding day, only to find luxuriant fertility. History relates the story of the mutilated remains, where to-day a monu¬ its original settlers. When the rebellion of the ment tells the tale of Wyoming’s massacree. colonies began the valley was occupied by fam¬ On the same evening Wintermoots Fort was ilies mostly from Connecticut, who recognized attacked by a detachment of the Royal Greens, the authority of that province. It was then an which, after a feeble resistance, surrendered, outpost of civilization, surrounded and overrun few only being killed. All others of the garris- by the Indians. The settlers at once experienc¬ !on were, after being promised safety, coolly ed the peculiar hardships attending a frontier murdered. war. When hostilities began something over _On the following morning, July 2nd, Forty three hundred of these hardy settlers entered Fort was besieged, and a demand from Col. the service from Wyoming Valley: only the John Butler to surrender the fort and the entire aged remained at home to protect the women valley. To this demand a council of war was and children. ( held and decided not. Another demand wasl The Indians having shown some disposition made on the next day, July 3rd. to annoy the inhabitants, the Continental Con- It soon became evident that the little garris-B I gress, in August, 1776, ordered two companies on Would soon submit to inactivity within theT >! to be raised and stationed in proper places for 1 ,1 "fort: that an active life would be required tol defense. jj| keep them together; and that unless they weref Early in .the year of 1778 Congress received led to meet the enemy, many of them would j I information that the designs of the Indians and leave the fort, with the desperate hope of de-| 8 Torys were being made for a descent on Wyom- |fending, single handed, their respective fire¬ \ ing Valley. It was not until May that scouting sides. parties from the enemy hovered around the With great reluctance, therefore, the minor-| settlements of the valley, and soon afterwards yielded, and at once marched out to meet assumed a more hostile position by firing upon the enemy. Altogether, only three hundred in the settlers while passing along the roads and number, the little band, commanded by Zebu- streams or workmen in fields. Ion Butler, proceeded on to find the enemy,! For a year or more the settlers had been en¬ ;then near Wintermoots. gaged in erecting stockades, or, as then called, The ground occupied by the enemy was on I forts. The most important were Fort Durkee, the upper bank of the river, and was under! Fort Wyoming, Ogden's Fort and “Forty Fort,” C] commamdof John Butler, who had divested him-1 and on the lower valley were Fort Wintermoot ■ self of the British uniform, appeared in front ofl and Jenkins’Fort, about one mile from Forty the Royal Greens with a hankerchief tied on His I Fort. It was to these stockades that the in¬ iihead. On closing up in front of the enemy, Col.f habitants of the outer settlements fled for pro¬ Zebulony, Butler addressed his little band of vol-| tection, and appealed to Congress for the rplipf a ft 'i ^■unteers, saying, “Men yonder is the enemy. needed. This appeal, so urgently and frequent¬ The fate of the Jenkins, of theHardings, tells usl ly made, was of no avail, causing almost a rc| what we have to expect if defeated. We eome| Bkeo Jo lit to fight, not only for liberty, but for life it- jself, and, which is dearer to preserve, our homes, V- jour women and children from the tomahawk. From,. jStand firm the first shock, and the Indians [will give away. Now, every man to his duty!” Then commenced, for the number engaged, Jftc. .Ob', j lone of the fiercest hand-to-hand contests ever Schronicled in history, three hundred men striv¬ Date, /v / / /y', 3t ing to overpower seven hundred white men and ■six hundred Iroquois Indians. This unequal BRIEF SKETCH OF COL. MASON. |contest raged for one hour, and every man did Colonel Addison G. Mason, Superin¬ jhis duty. It is not proposed to repeat much of tendent of of the Lehigh Valley Coal com¬ |this terrible strife—only such as may remind' pany, was born in Monroeton, Bradford •lone of the trials our forefathers uuderwentfor us, county, October 16,1839. His father, Gor¬ don F. Mason, wasa prominent member of Jto serve us as a reminder of pure blood shed for, the Bradford county bar and at one time an jour inheritance, and how we should appreciate extensive banker. Col. Mason was reared lit. in Towanda Where a rudimentary education fitted him for the Susque¬ The chief of the Iroquios—Grengwan, before hanna Collegiate Institute, which he en¬ [the firing remarked that he had counted the tered and from whicn he departed lumber of men in line, and “were as scarce as with high honors. After leaving school he entered a bank in jwild berries in winter:” hence he could afford to Scranton where he remained until 1839 Isacrifice three of bis tribe for the scalp of one going then to Towanda where he engaged in a similar business and left it only when Jrebel. Perceiving the disorder in the rebel line, his country called to arms, he being one be rushed upon them and slayed them, giving of the first to respond. In 1861 he helped to raise 250 men, entering jno quarter. Those not slaiu on the spot man- the ranks as a private, but jaged to reach the river and were butchered in before the command reached Harrisburg he was promoted to the position of second cold blood by their pursuers. It is written thati lieutenant. He was made adjutant the only five were made prisoners. The enemy’s! same year, a rank he held until the battle of South Mountain, where he displayed a lloss was never known, the statement made byl heroic courage that brought eulogies John Butler being grossly false that no one ever ? from several officers of the line. Later he rrote it, nor was it ever printed. After destroy¬ became a member of Gen. Meade’s staff on which he remained up to the close of ing everything within reach and carrying off! the war. He soon received his com¬ thousands of cattle, the enemy retired from the mission as first lieutenant, was sub sequently made captain and recommend¬ jvalley. But the withdrawal of John Butler and ed for the rank of major, aud finally was Jhis command did not wholly restore peace to made lieutenant-colonel by brevet, a rank lWyoming. The Iroquois continued to harass the, he held at the close of his army career. He had participated in jfew who returned to gather their crops and to all the battles of the Army of the Isecure the fragments which had escaped destrue- | Potomac, excepting that of Five Forks ' He was wounded at Charles City Cross Ition. Roads June, 1862. On his return to civil After the Revolutionary war was over, there life he again engaged in the banking busi¬ ness with his father. On October. 1868 I began a struggle between rival claimants of the Col. Mason married Miss S. Adelaide’ ■soil, which was long and eagerly contested by daughter of H. S. and Sarah A. Mer- the few who survived. A visit to this terrestrial £ h’A flf-'n\werre b,orn f0UI' children a!-Iti vr'vSb!\r'

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A Leaf From History. ■^Hanover’s Historical Associations. Probably few Luzerne residents ever stop This community is liberal iu its disposi¬ to consider where the county got its name. tion to make Hanover Park a popular pleas¬ One who has taken the trouble to look up ure ground. Its accessibility is an import¬ ant consideration in makiDg it a resort for the subject sends us the following, which picnics, excursions, and this being the ease, our readers will find interesting: “In the it is well to remember the relation the loca¬ fall of 1778 the alliance with France was; tion has to local history. First Hanover is formed, and in the following year the j a part of ont of the original townships of the Susquehanna Land Company, and was Sienr Gerard had leaf to return, and a new’ named in 1770. There the Pax on boys set¬ Minister was accredited to the United tled and in the vicinity of the present Han¬ States. In Congress, Wednesday, Nov. 17, over Church which is near the park, they 1779, according to order, the Honorable built the first frame church in the country, j in which the first Congregational Society was! established, and onehundrodjyears ago.hevs.i YauBenscoter, Gray, Johnson, of Wilkes- introduced to an audience, by Messrs. Barre, and Williams of Plymouth, constituted Matethws and Morris, whereupon the Sec¬ the ent ire force of Congregationalists in this Yalley. Behoe’s fulling mill which has been retary of the Embassy delivered to the out of use for upwards of fifty years was lo- President a letter from his Most Christian cated at the park, and was probably one of Majesty in which he highly recommended the oldest mills in the Wyoming Yalley. Chevalier de la Luzerne, to perform his These facts give [the parltj historical attrac¬ tions, and while people go there to rest and duty, and for Congress to place their entire refresh themselves, they have a landscape I confidence im him. The minister was then j which nature has made beautiful for situa¬ announced to the House, whereupon he | tion, and which the traction cars have arose and addressed Congress with a lengthy made accessible. speech, in which he spoke of the wisdom aDd courage of the people of the United States, saying also that France was glad to From, J.7 be connected with such a people, etc. From! this geutleman is derived the euphonious, 4a/ ] 3weetly-liowing name of Luzerne. Surprise might exist that the name of a foreigner if any, should have been selected for the Date, honor, in preference to more distinguished foreigners. So early as May, 1781, the OLD LANDMARK GOING. Chevalier had taken leaf and returned to The Oldest House in the Valley to be France. The matter is explained by relat¬ Torn Down. ing that in 1782 on the birth of the Dau¬ The Blanchard homestead, probably the phin of France, the Chevalier dela Luzerne oldest dwelling in the Valley, is to be gave an entertainment in Philadelphia torn down to make room for a modern then never equalled, and an account was structure. This house was built before the Revolution aud it is said to be at least published or republished about the time 130 years old. It has always been owned, and occupied by the Blanchards, and the present occupant, E. S. Blanchard, is ai great grandson of Jeremiah Blanchard, who came to the valley 124 years ago and par¬ ticipated la the exciting events that fol¬ lowed the early settlement. The old structure contains a large amount of dressed stone which is being used in the foundation of the new house. It also has three massive stone chimneys, the material of which will be utilized. The new house is being erected directly in the rear of the historic building, the } latter standing directly on the street with 61

outage of sixty feCt". Iff s nothing will remain of the up dozens and- dozens of comfortable d house except a few relics, residences; ‘while in places where hun¬ hich the family will wish to preserve, dreds of gaunt, blackened tree stumps mong the mementoes will probably be now accent the dreariness of the cheer¬ he nail on which the original Blanchard less mountain tops, will- rise mam- used to hang his bull’s eye watch in the jmoth structures, hives of industry, revolutionary days. | around which villages will grow and If all the stories connected with the shelter scores of hard-working men and old homeseatd could be collected they their families. would make a volume of interest, not only Some seven yeafb ago the region to the numerous descendants of Jeremiah I around Hazleton, in the vicinity of the Blanchard, but to many others interested ! mining villages of Harleigh, Ebervale in the history of the Wyoming Valley. and Jeddo, was populated by thousands I of busy miners. All day long the roar land rumble of busy machinery were heard, clouds of steam marked in doz- From,. .,/>/, // ! ens 'of places the great holes In the Aground, up which tireless engines were drawing the precious coal. From im¬ mense black breakers enveloped in clouds of coal dust and steam there came a rattling and crunching as the big, jagged pieces. of the black dia¬ Date V' Sf v monds were chewed by the relentless i jaws of the great crushers Into various sizes. Mounds of coal refuse, like im¬ mense earthworks around a fortified town, stretched their huge shapes In REMARKABLE |jiT eyery direction and grew rapidly. On the railroad, like wonderful serpents, crept miles and miles of cars bearing the coal to the big cities, to the holds of OF ENGINEERING. ocean steamers and to great furnaces of big manufactories. It was not strange that the busy scene should be seen here, jlmmense Body of Water Held for in this valley between the rolling ridges of Buck and Jeddo mountains is the richest coal basin in the world. j Back by a Piece of Wood But one day in the early Spring of 1887, when patches of green were show¬ in Jeddo Tunnel. ing amid the wilderness of tree stumps on the mountains, the engines suddenly stopped, the great crushers in the break¬ er ceased their journeys round and SPENT UP FOR SEVEN YEARS. round, the clouds of steam that mark¬ ed the location of the place miles away, heavily in the air and disappeared, and since that fatal day no more has been Huge Artificial Way of Escape wafted skyward. The big breakers are now wrecks, the engine houses from Cut Through the Solid Rock which the machinery was long since ' moved, have crumbled to pieces, the of a Mountain. yawning mouths of the shafts and slopes know no intruders and the small army of busy workmen has vanished. ! In but one spot in the center of the i COMPLETION OP A GEE AT TUNNEL village of Ebervale has the throb of an engine been heard as it lifted countless 1 millions of times the big drill which was boring its way into the depths of the ; Eich Coal Mines in Lower Luzerne That earth on its mission of restoring to all its former industry this now deserted Were Drowned Out by a Freshet region. But now the engine has stopped; its Will Soon Be Eeclaimed work is completed. With the last stroke of the piston practically ended the great¬ by Man's Ingenuity. est piece of engineering in the history of mining; a work that was so accurately and carefully planned and so exactly Special Despatch to “The Press.” executed that it has elicited the praise Wilkes-Barre, Dec. 8.—A common and admiration of every mining super¬ piece of hickory wood, six Inches long intendent and engineer in the coal and . four In diameter, is all that re¬ fields, and will take its place among the strains 600,000,000 gallons of water from most wonderful engineering feats in the world. ipouring from the prison in which for yseven years it has been pent up; by its CAUSE OF THE FLOOD. liberation it will give free and easy ac¬ On that Spring day in 1887,which mark¬ cess to some of the richest veins of coal ed the death of all the throbbing industry ever discovered; then like magic where in the limits of that rich valley the has been desolation and waste will be little creek which runs through the mid- jjheard the hum of machinery, the voices 1 die .of it was swelled by the melting of ,hundreds,.of workmen; and where now but."a few scattered houses mark |the site of once busy villages,will spring 82

its ’ narrow bed was tar too small and it commanded 50 cents a ton more than any leaped its banks and sped onward over land it had never known before, For other at market as a special grade. two days the freshet continued and on CASTING ABOUT FOR RELIEF. the third was stronger than ever. It This was too good to be left alone, Was on this day that, breaking through whatever the expense of cleaning out a slight bank* the water fell into a big the mine might be, and the companies hole in the ground, which became larger caused It to be known that they would and larger as the fierce torrent rushed favor any practicable scheme for the on, and soon all the creek poured into removal of the water. It. Then there was widespread alarm 1 J7 B. Markle, a prominent coal oper¬ throughout the valley. Hundreds- of the ator and owner of the big Jeddo mines, men who had been laboring in the dark about two miles from Ebervale, was depths' of the mine threw away their greatly interested in relieving the flood¬ tocls and fled for their lives to the front ed mines and formed a plan which he of the shafts, where the many carriages thought would be successful. With the hoisted them to the surface in safety by assistance of Mining Engineer Thomas dozens. McNair, of Hazleton, Markle drew up The mines were flooded; to every hole his plans, and soon, McNair, having and corner of the immense workings carefully gone over the ground, made of the Ebervale dolliery the water found extensive surveys and careful calcula- its way, and then broke into the Har- tion4, they were in shape. Markle and leigh mine above. In those days the McNair were certain the scheme was mine laws did not compel the operators practicable and Markle went to Van to leave a wall of 100 feet thickness be¬ Wickle and Kemmerer and offered to tween two mines, and the men in the form a company, drain the mines and Harleigh and Ebervale had worked so place them beyond all danger of again close to each other that they began to being flooded. Van Wickle and Kem-jf fear some danger might result. How merer agreed and in a few days then close is not yet known, for just as the Jeddo Tunnel Company was in exist-j creek broke through into the Ebervale ence, John B. Markle, of Jeddo, being1', mine the men in the Harleigh had fin¬ ished boring through the separating president and Alvin Markle, of Hazle-j WAlj* wall in a dozen different places. Before ton, and the late General Lilly, ofj they could measure the distance the Mauch Chunk, the trustees. The Union flood occurred and they were forced Improvement Company was also inter-;• to flee for their lives, the water follow¬ ested in the scheme. What terms exist j ing and filling the mine, from end to end between, the Jeddo Tunnel Company The superintendents realized that an and Van Wickle & Kemmerer is not immense amount of damage would be known; but as part payment for the done by the water, and strenuous ef¬ work the Jeddo Tunnel Company has forts were made to check the flow, but the privilege of operating the mines, without avail. The cave-in which the and this alone is worth a great deal of rushing water had first found was a money. great hole extending under the very bed After the formation of the company of the creek and it was impossible to preparations were at once made to be¬ turn aside the torrent. All that could be gin the work. The plan was to drive a done was to wait for the creek to sub¬ great tunnel, piercing Jeddo Mountain side. When at last it had resumed its and running directly under the lowest normal size the mines were completely portion of the bhsin containing the flooded to their entire extent, and the flooded mines. The outlet was to be in practical superintendents soon estimated Butler Valley, 17,098 feet from the face It would cost over $1,000,000 to pump out or end of the main tunnel; and a sec¬ and restore them to their former con¬ ond tunnel 9888 feet long was to run dition. Not caring to risk that much from Markle’s mines at Jeddo to the money, with the possibility of the same main tunnel, thus draining Markle’s accident again happening, the operators mines and saving him great expense. resolved to shut down. In a few weeks The entire tunnel would thus be five the region was depopulated. and an eighth miles long. ,Thie under¬ For a couple of years nsthing was done taking was a great one. The cost was toward restoring those great mines to a estimated at over $1,000,000 and it was working condition, but in 1890 the! oper¬ expected to take three or four years to ators of the A. S. Van Wicltle & Co complete it. Beside this there was a of the Ebervale, and M. S. Kemmerer & great risk to be taken; the calculations C°v of the Harleigh workings, began must be absolutely correct to the thou¬ looking about for some means of drain¬ ing the mines. The property was too sandth part uf an inch; a variation of valuable to go to waste. For the dis¬ a hair’s breadth in- making the sur¬ tance of two and one-half miles alon» veys might result in the different parts the valley the mine had been extended* of the tunnel, when the connection was the two villages being almost *at the made under the middle of the mountain, opposite ends of the tract. The coal being several feet from each other and veins which ranged directly east and' thus resulting in the loss of thousands west, were very rich, the topmost, the of dollars, if not the failure of the Great Mammoth, being never less than entire < work. Nothing daunted, how-; forty let thick and in many places as much as sixty. This vein is 250 feet below.the surface; 170 .feet further down lS_the six-foot {Wharton vein, and thfrtyl feet below the three-foot Buck Moun¬ tain vein. Neither of these smaller veins has been worked, and but a small pro¬ portion of the Mammoth had been sent surface. The coal from all of these was of so_flne a quality that it Sec t/o«au V/C.v/’ try? Ft

the ■ JFDDO TUWNfL /iND IT 5 OPENINGS-

but one change being made from the the Butler Valley outlet. As sooiv ris" original plan. these slopes were well advanced a num¬ At length in the early part of 1891 the ber of men began work in Butler Valiev preparations were complete arid then to to drive m tunnel No. 1, the outlet a make assurance doubly sure the plans distance of 3500 feet. By the time ’thp and calculations were carefully revised; Ebervale and Lattimer slopes were open- ed to the line of the tunnel five ga-ia-s of gtegrIt' - *? mistake might prove fatal and the men. were able to work In differe di-' \ company wanted to be as certain of suc¬ rections. There were fifty In each LSfe ' cess as was possible before the first ^tricy Pushed ahead fis rapidly as riofc- blast was fired. sible They first drove forward from But¬ ler Valley northward up the tunnel- this WORK CAREFULLY PLANNED. was -gang No 1 The second gang drove ||^ t -Is not to be supposed that the plans pom the foot of Lattimer funnel south- fob such a great attempt and costing such a great amount of money were pre¬ pared hastily. For months the architects of the mine labored over their drawings, made countless surveys and numerous tests. The tunnel was driven in minia¬ s Jir ture with all the great measurements ; assisted in drawing who had which were to mark the real work re¬ duced to minute dimensions. The great¬ months, withy a cores ofthe plans- For est mining engineers in the region were ;was busily c'ngaETPd L f assistar>ts, he consulted and every possible precaution j«* Plans were cona‘ Work- Hundreds '* taken to avoid a mistake. A water-spout (were made, calm,i»M * cted> surveys driven through more than five miles of t(th such admirable exactnX6CUted’ a11 solid rock and costing over 51,000,000 was not to be worked too quickly. To the uninitiated in mining matters it might <0 .1 seem to be a useless expenditure of money, but to the mine operators it means gains of millions of dollars, by gaining access to millions of tons of the finest coal to be found in the world. At last everything was in readiness. The contract for the work had been given to Charles F. King & Co., and Superin¬ tendent George Scott, of Ebervale, the "company” of the firm was ready to direct, personally, the 250 experienced rock miners and laborers engaged to pierce the heart of the mountain. , .Instead of starting to bore from both ends of the tunnel, as would seem but natural to . the layman, it was decided to sink two slopes to the tunnel level and then work north .and south along the tunnel from the foot of these slopes. Accordingly, in March, 1891, the work was commenced at the Ebervale slope and a W%tvV few weeks later at the Lattimer. The former was to be opened to the line of faster by making It 7x9 feet the “charge, tunnel B, which leads from the main was allowed by the tunnel company.' tunnel to the Jeddo, and will drain the Three hundred and forty thousands mines there. The Lattimer slope was to pounds of forclte were used by the time ike the tunnel line about 5000 feet from the tunnel was completed. m .•s' were .DOtnerea somewhat creek. The creek now iii it flows through _.g a great many streams of - the center of the many'fine farms in These streams' were of the pur- pretty Butler Valley furnishes the pros¬ pring water, and on many occas- .6 a blast would cut them in two like perous Pennsylvania farmers with their I a hose pipe." Some of them, so power¬ entire water supply; The creek polluted ful was their force, gushed two or three by the Waters of the mine would be feet from the rock after being thus cut. useless, the stock could not be watered As the tunnel was worked in sections, with it, it could not be used on the having no communication with each other fields, and there would be danger of it, it was necessary to clear out this water during a freshet, carrying the vegeta¬ with pumps, and seven of them, aggre¬ tion-killing coal dust and mine refuse gating 700-horse power, were used, four and depositing it along the now fertile in the Lattimer and three in the Eber- fields that border its banks. _ vale slopes. _ The company saw all this, and while NEARLY ^PERFECT ENGINEERING. the tunnel had progressed no further than the plans, a shrewd lawyer was As month after month passed, the sent into Butler Valley and in a few . ends of the sections neared each other •weeks had purchasedtthe right of way and the anxious engineers and officials along the banks of the creek from of the company eagerly -awaited the every farmer whose fa,rm bordered it, ! time when the first connection should be except one. Old Philip Goeting refused made and they could be assured that to make any settlement. He owns a goodly share of the -creek and said he their carefully drawn plans were cor¬ would wait developments before sell-1 rect and their fortunes made, or that ing the right of way. He was offered; they were wrong and that a fortune had a large figure and the company agreed j been thrown away. Toward the end of to sink an artesian well on his farm,) last August the men driving north in as they had done on others, but it was No. 3 and south in No. 4 came within all of no avail, he said he would wait. hearing of each other, and the anxiety Wait he did, too, until, the work was rose to fever heat. Finally on Septem¬ completed and then he aplied for an in¬ ber B a drill from No. 3, after pierc¬ junction to restrain the company from ing the rock a few inches met with no draining the mines. A preliminary in¬ resistence. The connection was made, junction was granted and the hearing the engineers were right; the plans were took place before judge Rice in this accurate; the tunnel was a success. In city the last week in November. Goet- ; a few hours the wall of rock had been ing claimed $20,000 would reimburse him cleared away, and wonderful to relate for all the damage, but the company there was not more than an inch dif¬ refused to pay. It is expected the Court ference In the floors of the two sections. will fix the damage in a few day3 and ’’Truly a great piece of engineering,” said all the prominent operators who then it will not be long before the plug were present. Soon after the wall be¬ is withdrawn and the Water, which has tween No. 1 and No. 2 was broken held imprisoned many millions of tons away, and there the work was just as of coal for seven years will be removed, i earefullv and accurately done as be¬ It would naturally be supposed that as tween Nos. 3 and 4. The tunnel was soon as the mine is tapped the water finished. will rush out in a great volume, but as Meanwhile, as the tunnel was nearing its fearful force might do irreparable completion, connection w-as being made damage and its great volume might ’ between it and the flooded workings by flood Butler Valley, the company long means of a bore hole. This bore hole was ago decided upon a safer and slower pro¬ started at one side of the village of cess. This is the reason the bare hole, Ebervale. Four hundred and fifty feet twelve inches in diameter at the surface beloW the surface it was to pierce the is but four inches in diameter at t.he center of the tunnel, so the calculations tunnel. Through this four inch hole it had to be made. So accurate were is expected that about 8000 gallons a they that a six-inch circle marked on ii minute will gush forth into the tunnel and hence to Biftler Creek three and a the roof of the tunnel before the boring half miles away, and as it is estimated was begun was two inches too large for that there are five hundred million gal¬ the four-inch hole which appeared in the lons of water in the workings it will be center of it when the work was com¬ nearly two months before the mines are j pleted. completely drained. To this main stream The boring was done with a jump drill from the Harleigh & Ebervale mines and rope, the same system used in the will be added a considerable quantity oil regions. For 250 feet a 12 inch hole through Tunnel B from the mine at was worked. As the drill went down Jeddo. further and further iron pipes were There will be no more danger of a sunk around it to hold back the water flood. The creek which runs through constantly draining into the hole from the center of the basin and which seven the workings. At a distance of 250 feet years ago poured into a cave hole in an the 12-inch bore was changed to a six- outcropping near Ebervale, and did all inch, which went dow^r170 feet, then it the damage, has been turned aside and was further reduced to a four-inch, and its waters now flow placidly through this was bored 20 feet to the tunnel. a deep canal a safe distance from any Iron pipes encased the drill as it went mine hole. Nor will the mines ever suf¬ further and further down, and so well fer from any collection of water such as were these placed in position and joined is met with in■ all the mines, the tunnel together, that though in many places underneath the workings will drain it they ran through the water in ont of the safely, of course no pumps will be needed flooded gangways,scarcely a gallon drips and here a heavy expense will be through into the tunnel a day. At the saved. * J, junction of the six and four-inch bore ther was driven, as soon as the work was finished, a plain hickory plug, and that is all that holds back the immense body of water in the mine. Half an hour’s work would suffice to withdraw the en¬ casing pipes and the plugs. 7 OPPOSITION ENCOUNTERED. The tunnel company when first the work was conceived knew they might expect a great deal of trouble from the farmers along Butler or Little Nescopeck Creek, when it was known that the poisonous sulphur water and mine waste from the flooded workings would be poured out into the Fair Oaks, in 18G1,'I reaffirm that 1 manded a battailion, designated by the ports of thoaeiion as such, precisely at the time and under the circumstances, told by me, and in the official reports of the battle, by the responsible superior officers. Let those who maintain otherwise, mark the time of day: it must have been near 4 o’olock in the afternoon ; for Caroy’s division stood till 3:30. It is loasible that this might have OLD LAND WARRANT AND DEED. been the 6eoond or third stand made by that regiment that day. My own command jXIie Power of Association—At Home with fought in three different positions as doubt¬ the Grip, less did others. j Written for The Republican. Let someone tell me where the Fifty-sec- I Amenzo Mumford, has in his poses- ond was at 4 o’clock that day and who was iSion, a land warrant and deed for a track" i in command. Whoever was noting adjutant of land, a portion of which ho now owns, ] could tell ihat; that is the poiot of the action . . | the dates of which Doint to an early date' and time of day, in my distinct statement; jin the history of this country. They are that it was when Carey’s division was with¬ ■j | written on parchment, and are perfectly drawn after three hours of stubborn resist¬ f legible. From them I quote: *\No. 899. ance, as all reports show. ; I Land patent granted to George Clvmer, Another point introduced by one of your by the supreme executive council o'f the correspondents is of more importance. The gj State of Pennsylvania for land surveyed false and damaging report made by Mc¬ :|in 1775, patent for which was made to Clellan that “Carey’s division had in an un¬ ■ the said Ciyraer, on the fifteenth day accountable and discreditable manner been of August, 1783, and signed by John taken by surprise and given way when at¬ i Dickenson, president of the S. E. C. of tacked,” your correspondent says he, Me- I the C. of Pennsylvania attested by John ClellaD, “had corrected in a manly way after¬ Armstrong. The patent is for 309£ acres words.” Where can this correction be found? of land, situated on the waters of the It is not in his report rendered five months Tunkhannock creek, in Northumberland aiterward, which is all that ever came from jeounty, which land was deeded to Asa him in that connection, aud this, after his iKmght, on the 26th day of June, 1815, deserved di m ssal irom command by a jy Heury Clymer and others, devisees of loya! President. The lact L that “Little • the real estate of George Clymer, de- Mac” saw no part of the battle, being on the iceased. Consideration $988.31. The other side of tbe Chickahominy River with land is then described as being in Abing- his staff of 100, who, as Georg ■ Wilkes pub¬ tou,Luzerne county. Luzerne county lished, “did not lose a hair out of tbe tail iff was created in 1786, from Northumber¬ I one of their horses in the campaign.” In¬ land county. The patent referred to deed there is no meuti ur of Medellin being (above is filed as follows: ‘Tnrolled in the present ut any battle while he 'Koll s office for state of Pennsylvania, in was in commind. of the army. The patent book No. 2, page 87. Witness nearest so one exception being, tne meniiuu J my hand and seal of office the 27th of ol Mr Richardson, war correspondent ol the 'August, A. D., 1783. John Morris, the New York Tribune, who writes—“As I was Asa Knight, mentioned above was Mrs. approaching the battlefield. (Amietun) two Mumford's grandfather. miles distant, I met McClellan galloping m 9 W n* m-m'-mt' .-r _ rapidly to the rear." Adv-rting again to th»' historical fact of the 52nd at Fair O iks, I have said, implied ortiiought nothing ti a would n fleet upon From, L I any field officer or other if that regiment. I Cheerfully lesrify that, f kmw loth the lieutenant-colonel and m j ir id that com¬ .k * mand vi oil; and have known he latter to be doing a teim or duty, a very seve e s-twice, as general officer of the day when ha should have been lu ttie hospital. And I here dis¬ Fate, _1 | r.j Jji avow all sucb disingenuous inference-* f om anything tnat I have said or bought. No worthy comrade will be found seeking to deny duo credit to uny man or officer w ho did his duly in the blue smoke of that bioo ly COL. FAIRMAN’S LAST WORD. contest. James Faibman, CGUi N. Y. Yol. As to the Fifty-Second Volunteers at . Fair Oaks. Editor Becobd: Having carefully read what has been published as comment and implied contradiction of my assertion, as to the Fifty-second Pennsylvania Volunteer at across the Quakake a ton, between it and the town of Auden-, ried, thence in the direction of Nesco- peclr, near the famous Sugar Loaf moun¬ tain. The Delaware Indians, who at one time occupied the country south of the Great Swamp, left that field for the Susquehanna at Nescopeck under cir¬ cumstances well depicted by C. F. Hill in a sketch of Joseph Nutimus. Joseph Nutimus was a Delaware Indian and chief of the tribe known as theFork In¬ dians, and lafier in life was known as Old King Nutimus. His home for many years was at the mouth of the Nesco¬ peck creek, where the town of Nesco¬ peck now stands. The term of his occu¬ pation of Nescopeck was between the years 1742 and 1763. The earliest refer¬ ence to him is made by James Logan, Esq., in a letter bearing date Stenton, 7th, 4th, 1733, to Thomas Penn, Esq., in which he speaks of an expected visit from Nutimus and his company with a present and apprehends trouble and closes by stating “that they left a bag of bullets last year.” In a later letter With Pen Sketches of Her Repre¬ dated Aug. 22, 1733, Logan acknowl¬ sentative Merchants, Manufactur¬ edges that Nutimus has lands in the ers and Business Men, Who Have fork of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers above Durham. The Lehigh river at ’ Been Her Instrument of Progress that time was also known as the branch aud Growth. of the Delaware river, and the tribes located on the lands between these two The pioneer history of Hazleton is streams and where Easton now stands identical with what was at one time were known as the Fork Indians. called the Great Swamp, or, as Govern¬ This was the original dominion of or Morris in a letter to Governor Hardy King Nutimus, where beheld undisput¬ bearing date April 4, 1756, in the days ed away, subject only to such allegiance of the French and Indian war, called as he owed to the Six Nations, until the the Great or Laurel Swamp. This famous walking purchase took place in swamp has also become historical in 1737, the history of which is too long connection with the Wyoming settle¬ for the purpose of this notice, and ments, the people of which traversed it which, contrary to the expectation of and made frequent mention of its perils. the Fork Indians, extended far beyond Two peculiarities of this Great Swamp their meaning of a day and a half walk are these—first, the frontier of the and included the Fork lands. Edward French and Indian war, which extend¬ Marshall, a trained pedestrian, did the ed from the Delaware to the Potomac, walking. Nutimus and his people were formed its southern boundary, while the disappointed, chagrined and angry and Susquehanna and the frontier of the were ready for retaliation. Settlers at Revolutionary war formed its northern once flocked in upon their lands and boundary. settled among their people, while they This immense swamp, of which Hazle¬ obstinately and with much insolence ton is now the principal city of this held their ground. once wilderness domain, was an un¬ After five years of unhappy dispute broken wilderness traversed only by In¬ as to who should occupy these lands dian paths until the year 1786, when complaint was made by the people of Evan Owen, the founder of the town of Pennsylvania to the Six Nations, which Berwick, first broke through it with a resulted in a council being called at rude turnpike road to the waters of the Philadelphia July 12, 1742, at which Lehigh. The Indian paths led from the i Cannassatego, a sachem of the Six Na¬ Lehigh gap in the Blue mountains I tions, delivered his famous speech to the complain?ng Delawares and cites to * 'SSftr them deeds made by their fathers more Weiser writes that the author of the than SO years ago for these same lands numerous murders of the people of and later deeds and releases made by Pennsylvania is' Onionto (the French), 'themselves, several of which, in fact, and that they have prevailed upon the |were signed by Nutimus himself. Can- Delawares at Nescopeck, who had given massatego was thoroughly disgusted their town as a place of rendezvous for with their action and tells them they the French, and had undertaken to join should be taken by the hair of their and guide them on the way to the Eng¬ heads and shaken until they have some lish. About this time Weiser sent two sense; that their cause is bad and their spies—Silver Heels and David, a Mo- hearts far from being upright, and that hawk Indian—from John Harris’, now the land they claim has been sold and Harrisburg, to Nescopeck to learn what gone down their throats, and that now, was going on there. Upon their return like children, they want it again, and they reported they saw 140 warriors • closes by delivering a peremptory order '' dancing the war dance and expressed great bitterness against the English, hannaV6 ** 0000 ^ S° to th9 Sas1D0- and that they were preparing an expedi¬ No doubt Nutimus was both reluctant tion against them and thought they and slow to obey, but in due time we would go to the eastward. At a coun¬ hud him and his people located at Nes- cil of the Delawares on the west branch copeck, which place, if he took the most and held at Shamokin it was decided convenient route, he reached by the path in order to avoid an invading army which led from the Lehigh gap in the from the French to go to Nescopeck for blue mountains across the Mauclr safety. Tacknedorus, alias John Shikel- ' Uiunk mountains, crossing the Qnakake limy, says: valley and the Bnck mountains west “I went with them to Nescopeck and rom Hazleton, near Audenried, pass¬ took my family with me. After awhile ing near the famous Sugar Loaf in I found the Nescopeck Indians were in .Lonyngham valley to the mouth of the the French interest. I, with my brethren Nescopeck creek, where bo lotUod on iand others, then began to feel afraid the present site of the town of Nesco¬ ,and returned to Shamokin.” peck on a level fertile soil, the forest In November, 1755, occurred the plun¬ being of such a character as to yield dering of Gnadenhatten, now Weiss- readily to the Iudiau method of clearing port, and the slaughter of the Moravian land by removing the small trees and missionaries, and the long list of mur¬ girdling the larger. ders that immediately followed in this Nothing occurred to bring Nutimus former home of the old King Nutimus, and his people to notice in their new taken m connection with the circum¬ breaking out of the stances given and the close proximity French and Indian war. A spirit of un¬ of Nescopeck to Gnadenliutten and the rest and disquiet uow came over the direct path between the two places, Delaware Indians on the Susquehanna. forces the conclusion that Nutimus was (It was now important to cultivate the largely if not entirely resoonsible for friendship of the Delawares. Acoord- them. wgly Governor Hamilton sent Conrad Edward Marshall, who accomplished or among them with conciliatory tne great walk on which the walking messages, who writes May, 1754; purchase was based, lived at this time ^ f ,pni 80 { a^ived at hbamokin at or near the present village of Slate- 8015 Samuel and James Lo¬ lord. Marshall was not to blame for the gan Shikeiiimy’s son, up the north walk, for he did it as a hired man,

W/tb tt^6 lnessaS0 (;o Nutimus at though he never received the 500 acres Nescopeck. Upon their return they re¬ of land promised him. Still the Indians ported old Nutimus was from home remembered the part he had taken upon but the rest of the Indians received the himseL, and they determined to retali¬ message very kindly and said they ate. They surrounded his house when Tvould iay it bei-°re Nutimus and the he was not at home and shot his daugh¬ ter as she was trying to escape,, the ball sioL“:..f”dia"s after entering her right shoulder and coming J*?™' Iir,;"l';ct ™ defeated by out below the left breast. Yet she gol Fiench-- and JUJUIndians July 9 1757 away from them and recovered. They moron,J!?nrguhela- Reports‘/ ^ere nu- took Marshall’s wife, who was not in t lat the French were coming condition to make rv.nid flight, some SunbF fDUqU0^e t0 Shamok“. now miles with them and killed her. Ta a carrv t0 large ami To former attack on Ids house they had carry the war mtfl Pennsylvania. Later kulcd one of his sous. Though thirsting of being attack^ by us" they huvemoveaj

t0 a place S branch of j the0’Susquehanna" on the other, vyhere and usually undertook tt® “° H' l t

sraa "KSfsr:' feSSir«rfbury), oue ot the,\ai^•■ , wagerwrtea, have consented to Ira Hating Shamokin and have desired me to raise 68 dinJune1*757, wefind old Kina isth¬ 400 men for that purpose, which I an “VSgwi«ba1nb.^r.cb.nS mus, With l’us wife and power, and upon my laying letters before them they agre ^ sssSKw-sahaving no doubt mt . elf aud ffiight employ ^8eomencafter^thP ^ .

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to ^ „ enn of Philip QnmP vcafS S1BC0 U If-jag _ , w m ■Rntlor while out survey- I Goedecke of butler, wm isresco-1 on a nmm™* "ai sc0I0tly 8i,ing •wife and daugu y . , • * s-ncb them whisky and d®Qia”“°it ll(1 not FS55SS:pf things were allowed that it* -Id n >

SLfhte'to^hTfort again Sis visits |S underneath the leaves around t. j fireplace, where he found Iud^j I rows aud a number of plaster of parl S bisabout ! molds imbedded in the ground in Kent The Great inland on tl.e west branch ana 1 0f the fireplaces. The molds veio eacal roMifhta,rson”n°ti.nns, 1 filled with a lead cast of crucifixes anu| Virgin Marys designed to oe worn aoou 1 ' i! who livetl at Tioga anti was, aja.» the^ neck. Mr. Goedecke ^pryeiueu a friend of the English and at last a number cf these relics to C. i. j counts in 1159 was ahoot^J™“ |lt,s. Bazletoc,TT i « whovv uo believes they Del ousted- French Indians expedition against the ir®nc M tc the desperate band pf_ i. „ Kino Nutimus died on the ivins •ig Nutrimus at j burg. Kin„ . - swgo. He was who left the camp of A the month of the Nescopeck , horfSar Philadelphia and lived to an The reader can form some idea of the extremely old age. Pvmden- *1 nl]:rUe= committed by this band of huMWasfe W'gm&S rnerciless Indians by a sworn statement were committed in the settlements_oi made by George Ebert, a P^oner ^ lwd made bis escape. On the 20th y , Northampton county by the French In¬ of June A.D. 1757, “personally appeared dians, who kept themselves conceale Se me, William Parsons, one of bis in the Great Swamp, and who had left majesty's justices of the peace for tl ] the home of King Nntimns at the Nes- county of Northampton, George1*gt copeck immediately after the massacre at Gnadenhutten. Where they had lo¬ son of John Ebert, late of Plamheia ft township in the Eaid county, yeoman, cated in the vast domain of the Grea«, i bafc now of Easton, in the same county, swamp was to the people of that time j ! tt J lQ years, and being duly sworn , a mystery. ., . I rm the holy evangelist of Almighty \ Governor Morris’ letter of April 4, I pnri depoceth and declareth that on or 1756, to Governor Hardy says: “Sir | about too 2? day of May last he, this , am honored with two of your favors since I wrote you last and do not see deponent, with about IS » ’ j went with two wagons from Plainfield hmv any other plan can be laid for at¬ township to assist the inhabitants of tacking Indians than you have proposed —of finding out their places of abode Lower ^ h& hSle'S and going to and attacking them there. The Great or Laurel Swamp you men¬ tion is what they pass through in their way to and from Wyoming and Nesco- peck, where they have chiefly resided V-t,“ „n,m ot the same d^ttgogg; till lately Mint upon some apprehensions ■

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THE MINER’S TH HOSPITAL OF MIDDLE COAL FIE! to the house of Conrad Bittenbender, to Which house many of the neighbors had he saw three fall, one dead; that they fled. Here one of the wagons, with ook Peter Schaffer, who received two ( about ten men, with this deponent, flesh wounds, one on his arm and one j halted to load their wagon with the on ms shoulder, and. this deDonent pris¬ j poor people’s effects, and the rest of the oners. tins deponent receiving no wound. company, with the other wagon, went And this deponent further says that | forward about a mile to the house of tbs. Indians frequently talked French (Philip Bozart, to which place others of together; that they sot off immediately I the neighbors had also fled, with such with their prisoners; that on the even¬ f ,1-94. |bgj_r goods as they con Id in their ing of the next day Htoy fell in with confusion carry. That this' ,1. poneii! another company of about 24 Indians, and Conrad Bittenbender, Peter Schaf¬ wnu had Abram Mi-Hesr, with his moth- fer, John Nolf, Jacob Roth, Michael erana A'dam Snell’s daughter, prisoner. ' llierster, a certain Kieus and another The Indians,, with chair prisoners, man whose name the deponent had for¬ marcnedia parties, as far as Diahoga. got went abont two miles into the At tins place- they separated, and about woods to seek the people’s horses, where eigir, che foremost took this deponent they found sis, and were returning with aim Abram Miller with them, and they - them wfyen within a half mile of Bit- never saw any of the other prisoners onbender’s house they were attacked afterward. In their way on the other Ef 15 Iren°h Indians, who fired upon sftte of Diahoga they saw Klein’s daugh- Diem and killed Bittenbender, Jacob ter, who had been taken prisoner a week 0‘,n and Johu NoU; as he believes,, for previous to deponent. A day’s journey beyond Diahoga they came to several 68

Indian cabins, where they aaW at the mouth of Catawissa creek, is the iCr prisoner, a girl between 8*and large and flourishing village of Cata¬ years old, who told this deponent that wissa, containing a population of more her name was Catherine Yager; that than 2,000. Some four miles above, on her father was a locksmith and lived at Fishing creek, which forms its northern Allemengle, and that she had been and westorn boundaries, is the town of prisoner since Christmas. At this place Bloomsburg. These towns are pleasant¬ the Indians loosed the prisoners, this I ly and beautifully located and from ele¬ deponent and Abram Miller, who they | vations near present scenery so varied had bound every night before. That on j by mountain, valley and river a3 to finding themselves at liberty they made j hold the attention of the beholder in their escape in the night and the nest prolonged and rapt admiration. For afternoon came to French Margaret’s at j many a mile upward he will behold the J Diahoga, having been prisoners nine ! winding and beautiful Susquehanna | days. That they staid some nine weeks.' gleaming in the sunlight and forming i With Tier,'during which time she con-1 an ever radiant border of wide green mi d and supported them. Some I and fertile fields. Beyond them on the French Indians came in search for the 1 south, rising up in its grandeur, the •prisoners, whereupon Margaret told Catawissa mountain, to the north the them it was not safe for thorn to stay conspicuous form of -Nob mountain and longer and advised them to males the the valley of Fishing creek, losing itself best of their way homeward. All the as it becomes enveloped in forest and Indians at and on this side Diahoga mountain scenery, while about him on were very kind to them and. aided and (tverv side will bespeak evidences of directed them on their way. John Cook' thrift and bustle of a large and growing was of particular assistance to them. town. While they were at Diahoga they were Strange that amid scenes where na¬ informed' that tho Indians had killed ture has been so lavish in her gifts Abram Miller’s mother, who had be¬ there should have lurked darkly design¬ come unable to travel farther; also ing men intent on fighting against free¬ Knell’s daughter, who had received a dom and the right. Yet here at an early wound in the leg by a fall when they j day were settlers belonging to the So¬ first took her prisoner, but they had ciety of Friends and others called To¬ heard nothing of Peter Schaffer. In j ries, the two supposed to be more or less three days they arrived at Wyoming by affiliated in their views and conduct, water, as Margaret had advised them. who were strongly suspected of favor¬ At Wyoming the Indians directed them ing tire cause of the British and of hold¬ to Fort Allen, hut they missed their ing treasonable correspondence with way and took the road to Fort Hamil¬ them. In a region where unparalleled ton. The deponent further states that suffering had been endured from Brit¬ the friendly Indians told them that the ish and Indians invasions the aid and enemy had killed Marshall’s wife at comfort afforded by these people to the the first mountain.” enemy would naturally arouse attention With the simple mention that the and compel observation. The different massacre in Northampton county dur¬ condition of things in this neighbor¬ ing the term of tire French and Indian hood when contrasted with those of ad¬ war reached at least 100 families in joining neighborhoods could hardly fail numbor, committed almost entirely by of attracting attention. While others the Indians who lurked in the Great had to leave their homes and seek pro¬ swamp we have described, the scene tection within the sheltering walls of changes, and we will turn our attention neighboring forts these would remain to the frontier of the Susquehanna river, unmolested and enjoy quiet and peace. whose settlements were yet in their in- While other neighborhoods were severe¬ | fancy when the Revolutionary war ly harassed, the people killed if found ■ broke out. They then became the sub- outside of their forts, their property de¬ ' jects of the vengeance of the Six na- stroyed and themselves subject to cap- I tions. Fort Augusta at Sunbury, which tivity and death, these would suffer no | had been erected in the old colony times loss and carry on the labor of their ! of 1757, was the military headquarters of farms without being annoyed or dis¬ 1 the north and west branch frontier. tressed by the disasters that universally During the Revolutionary war this fort Sr prevailed elsewhere. Tho most casual was occupied by Colonel Hunter for the observer would not fail to note this dif¬ ; protection of the patriot settlements, ference. It Wits likewise very apparent and tho American flag now waved from that, their situation was quite favora¬ tne stall from wThich floated the British ble for carrying ou a treasonable corre¬ flag before. spondence with the enemy without be- On the left bank of the Susquehanna, ig discovered. They were surrounded to examine this country and dislodge by mountains on one side and by the them.” Susquehanna river on the other, so that Colonel Hunter had decided on mak¬ the enemy could reach them and they ing a demonstration on this Tory set- the enemy without being observed. tlemeut and had arranged with Colonel • “But murder will out,” and a chain I Klader of Northampton county to join of circumstances began at length to be I him in the enterprise. The Tories, formed, so linked together that the minds learning of this design, had no doubt of patriotic men v/ero well convinced of sent word to their British and Indian the presence of an enemy among them. allies to aid them at this juncture, and In addition to the circumstances already they had come on the ground in large mentioned we may note one or two force before the arrival of Captain others proper to be added as links to the Klader and his men. On the Gth of Sep¬ chain above referred to. Justice Hewitt, tember, 1780, the British and Indians in a letter to the president of the council 1 to the number of 350 or 300 men ap¬ of safety for Columbia county. Aug. 20, peared before Fort Rice and made a 1780, says that the “disaffected fami¬ j vigorous attack, which was kept up un- lies” in every incursion of the enemy | til after night, when they set fire to the into this county fly to them—viz, inhab¬ buildings and haystacks in the neigh- itants of Catawissa and Fishing Creek | borhood. The garrison at Fort Jenkins —for protection, Whilst the well affect¬ was sent to the the relief of Fort Rioe. ed are obliged to vacate the county or Colonel Kelly, with 100 men, and Colo¬ shut themselves up in garrison.” He nel Purdy from the Juniata, with 110 also states by the confession of Casper men, arrived upon the scene. The enemy Reaney, Duncan Beeth and others that having destroyed Bosley’s mills, near they were sent to Niagara by David Fort Rice, now broke up into small bod- Fowler and others, and that the Indians i ies and retreated in different direc- came to that place in a peaceable man¬ 1 tions. One body of not less than 40 ner last spring, “together with many British and Indians left Fort Rice, went more circumstances which might be I by the way of Knob mountain, passing produced.” He thereforeprays the hon- I | near where Van Camper’s father, un¬ orable council to grant such relief as in j cle and brother had been killed the pre¬ tbeir wisdom thev may think pro vious spring, thence by way of Cabin From ^iosffioh hyTlenryU’Neiw be¬ run to Fort Jenkins, which had been fore this same justice, Thomas Hewitt, I evacuated, and destroyed the fort and evidence is given of the correspondence all the buildings in the vicinity. The and familiarity of the Indians with the well inside the fort was filled with the people of Catawissa. charred remains of the logs and build¬ Thus ample testimony is afforded ings. All at Fort, Jenkins was utterly that the settlements named were more destroyed except the young orchard or less implicated in the disasters and I Panted by oames Jenkins and just be- sufferings endured by the others, and J ginning to bear. This party evidently that the safety of the country demanded 1 understood tnat Captain Klader was their removal. The Hon. William Me- soon to be expected to meet Colonel Clay, addressing President Reed from Hunter and proceeded up the river to Sun bury April 2, 1780, writes: ‘‘I will what is now the town of Berwick, where not trouble you with the distresses of they crossed over and followed the path this county. They will no doubt be leading from the Susquehanna to North¬ painted to the council in lively colors, ampton, a distance of about seven miles and indeed the picture can not be over- from Nescopec-k. Hero they lay in am¬ charged, nor should I at thistirne writs bush awaiting the arrival of Captain to you but for a strong belief and per¬ Klader and his company. At high noon suasion that a body of Indians are on the 11th of September, 1780, four lodged about the head of Fishing and days after the attack on Fort Rice, these Muncy creeks. They were with us to the unfortunate patriots, while taking their very beginning of tke deep snow last j noonday repast, were surrounded by year. They are with us now before the this murderous band and were nearly snow is quite gone. This country might all either killed or taken prisoners. be examined. That is what we wish. Their concealed and barbarous enemies Many 0f our hunters wbo waufc ]ate jag(. bad hovered about their track, ready to tail into that country—which is a fine i,ake advantage of the first unguarded one for hunting—were so alarmed with moment. As the soldiers drew near the constant reports of guns, which they end of their journey they supposed them¬ n0t beIi0ve were white men’s, selves safe and were elated with the that they returned suddenly back. We hope of soon joining with their brethren " nofc strong enough to spare men assist in defending the in- and distressed! frontier to the A great uncle of the Engle brothers ..ah and west. They had come to what now living in Hazleton and vicinity es¬ jad been a Scotch settlement, but now, caped over Nescopeck mountain. Abra¬ because of the border troubles, wholly ham Kinder, brother of the officer in deserted. Here wore open and cleared i command, concealed himself in Little fields covered with a luxuriant growth | Nescopeck creek by clinging to a tree of grass and beautiful with wild and!; that had fallen across the stream and fragrant flowers. Before them were! keeping his face only above the water pastnros rich with the green covering of j until the enemy had disappeared, when ■'ifly 'summer, sprinkled here and there ! he emerged from his concealment and .vith the snowy heads of the modest, succeeded in reaching his home. Fred¬ white clover. Hero was a place too in¬ erick Shickler also escaped on Buck viting to bo passed by without pausing mountain by avoiding the Indian trail, to enjoy the luxury of the scene. It was leaving it to his right, and by keeping specially tempting to men weary from out of sight of. the Indians, whose yells the fatigues and hardships of the long| he could hear as they followed on in march. They needed relaxation and re¬ pursuit. Lieutenant John Moyer, En¬ freshment, since they had been for days sign James Scoby and Private Peter before tearing their way through the Tubalt Coans were taken prisoners. The thickets of brush and briers, cliimber- lieutenant escaped. The other two were ing over rocks and logs, and opening as taken through to Niagara. As soon as they did on what seemed an earthly the result of this action became known paradise they would naturally cast aside at the iustanoe of Colonel Balliet a every thought of danger and give them¬ large company of men were raised, who selves up to the luxury of needed repose. went to this place and buried ten of What enemy could invade so delightful the bodies of those who had fallen. At a place? Its very appearance one would a later period Colonel Hunter direoted think sufficient to lnll to peace the rough Van Campon to take a company of men elements of war. They surrendered and go and see what discoveries he themselves to the enjoyment of the hour could make and bury what dead he iu a very thoughtless, unguarded man¬ could find. He was not aware of the ner. One went one way, another went service already performed and reporter another as suited him, each following his ewn fancy, without order, without placing a sentinel, their guns scattered here and there, some loaning against stumps or logs, some perhaps stacked, others lying flat on the ground. The position of tbo men resembled much ! that of th.eir firearms. Some were lying on the ground indulging in a smoke; one man was leaning against a tree, with his shoes off cleaning them out; j others had gone off for grapes, which were there in abundance, and one had cmnneu a tree and was pi clung ana eat¬ . ing grapes. Suoh was the condition these men were in when the enemy STODDARTSYILLE. oama suddenly upon them and with hatchet and gun hewed and shot them down. Some escaped, and three were taken prisoners. The killed were Cap¬ Memories of Early Times in tain D. Klader, Corporal Samuel Bond and Privates John Kouts, John Weaver, That Region. - Baltzer Snyder, George Peter Reinhart, Peter Groom, George Sholhamer, Paul Neely, Abraham Smith, Jaeob Arndt, The Enterprise of a Philadelphia Philip George, James McGraw and Ja¬ cob Row. Merchant to Establish a Big Busi- It may be interesting here to note ness in a Wilderness—Can the that the state of Pennsylvania has ap¬ pointed a commission to locate all places Latent Power in Its Palls now Go- of Revolutionary and historical note, ing- to Waste be Utilized? with a view of marking same, and no doubt this field will he marked by a tab¬ Ia a former article Stoddartsville was men¬ let bearing the names of the fallen he¬ tioned as a place of great expectations three quarters of a.oentury ago, but that its hope3 roes. _ i were blasted and it is now a hamlet o£ less plans of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. than hall a dozen houses. It has no hotel, (which did so much to develop Northeastern store or school house and at such times as a Pennsylvania in the early part of the cen¬ doctor must be had—occasions rare in so tury), been oarried out Mr. Stoddart’s ven¬ salubrious a locality—he comes from Wilkes- ture would have been successful, but a radi¬ Barre, and his fee for his forty mile trip over cal ohange in the navigation plans topk the mountains is considerable, usually $25. A place and the Stoddartsville project became doctor can be had at White Haven, eleven a failure which almost ruined its enterpris¬ miles distant, for proportionately less. But ing projector. According to the ohartcr the elevation is some 1,500 feet, the air is Stoddartsville was to have been the head of balmy and pure, the water beyond suspicion,. navigation, but by some means or other the and the people seldom require either pills,, I navigation company decided to make White powders or potions. In case of sickness, | Haven the head of Its canal system and this ordinary home remedies and good care action, which Mr. Stoddart could not possi¬ usually suffice to bring the sufferer safely bly have foreseen left Stoddartsville away oS and speedily around. in the pine forests, a dozen miles away from Stoddartsville lies on the direct road to that great commercial highway of the navi¬ Easton on gation company, which was to float the THE. PATH FIEST LOCATED flour of Luzerne County to Philadelphia. Mr. Stoddart bravely undertook to fight against by the Wyoming pioneers, approximately fate by hauling his flour to Easton by wagon, followed by Sullivan’s army in 1779 and per¬ but it took only two or three years of this manently adopted by the Wyoming & E iston kind of business to wreck his enterprise Turnpike Co. This company was completely. chartered in 1802 and after some While his Stoddartsville venture was being four or five years in construction was wreoked by local causes his Philadelphia completed to the Delaware at a cost of $75,- mercantile establishment, one of the 000. The turnpike proved so profitable that lirgest in that city, was completely destroyed several 5 per cent, dividends were paid. by the financial stringency growing out of During the War of 1812 the farmers of the ruinous embargo acts and other evil Northampton county were unable to prooure effects of the War of 1812, which carried land plaster from the seaboard, owing to the down so many of our Americau merchants. embargo on Amerioan shipping, and were His fortune was swept away and he was compelled to use New York plaster, which never able to regain it and was compelled to was conveyed down the Susquehanna on end his days as a olerk in a commercial es- arks to Wilkes-Barre and thence in sleds and tabllshment. ■^vagons over the turnpike. This thorough¬ He never spent muoh time at Stoddarts¬ fare proved of great importance for many ville nimself, but placed in charge his son years and there are scores of people who re¬ Isaac who built a splendid home here and member it in its palmy days as a stage and Icommeroial line. DAZZLED THE COUNTRY FOLK | In the early days oi turnpike travel. Lu¬ by bringing his bride in a coach and four. cerne county was an agricultural district but The young wife was Miss Lydia Butler, whose |as there was no considerable home majrket grandfather was Col. Zebulon Butler, who led it had to look to Philadelphia for purchasers. the Wyoming soldiery on the latal 3i of July, Easton was the market point for Luzerne 1 778. Her great-grandfather was Rev. Jacob county grain but—lu these railroad days we Johnson, who was the pioneer pastor at can scarcely realize it—there was no route I Wilkes-Barre. The married life of Isaac thither except over the turnpike. ! Stoddart and his wife proved a long and IT IS JOST HEBE THAT happy one and was blessed with eleven chil¬ dren. The story of Stoddartsville and its splen¬ The house, occupied many years now by did water power begins. John Stod¬ Lewis btull, indicates the broad ideas which dart was a wealthy merohant of Philadelphia the Stoddarts possessed. It’s rooms are J and he thought he saw a great business op¬ large and the ceilings high. In the gener¬ portunity. The falls of the Lehigh w,ould ous fire places log fires blazed in the old iurnish the power for a great milling indus¬ days and probably do yet when the winter try and the grain of Luzerne county would nights are long and drear. The mantles no longer have to be hauled in wagons to were of elaborate carving and the rolding Easton but would be ground at his mills and doors were so high as to reach the ceiling. be conveyed to Philadelphia easily and All the parts of the house, except the rough cheaply by the navigation company’s slack- lumber, were hauled on wagons from Phila¬ water canal system. He saw that he could delphia. save Luzerne county farmers the greater After this lapse of time it is a place of part of the 60-mile haul to Easton by buy¬ beauty to-day. It stands on a slope, shaded ing their wheat at the Lehigh and the pro¬ with maples and fir and balsam, and at the ject was a safe and judicious one,but force of loot is the Lehigh, the murmur of whose adverse olroumstances strangled it in its in¬ fancy. jroar, heard summer and winter, sounds I strangely like the wash of the sea. Across Mr. Stoddart accordingly laid out a town at the road is the store building recalling the the falls in 1815 and it bears his name to¬ busy lumbering days of half a century ago. day, though he projected a city instead of the Over the Corinthian pillars is the sign of hamlet that it has since become. He built an Malone & Buokman, the letters of which are extensive grist mill and a busy little moun¬ as black as if painted only last year. Down tain village opened up. Had the original by the stream is the four and a half story 72

f % of the stone mill, whioh swallowed up so much of John Stoddard’s money long ago. in this region, which had coveted the period The mill stoues were idle for forty years from about 1835 to 1875. after the bursting of the navigation hopes, Mention has already been made of Ieaao and in 1857 the big structure was destroyed Stoddart, who was bis father’s manager at by Are. It was at this time occupied as a part Stoddartsville. Another son of John Stod¬ of the lumber making plant of Mr. Stull, dart, Joseph, is still living and though a which was again making Stoddartsville so resident of Philadelphia be has a cottage in busy a hive of industry. Then came Stoddartsville and passes his summers there THU GEEAT FBESHET in comfortable retirement. He is the father of 1862, which swept away the navigation of Mrs. George H. Butler, He was partially company’s improvements in the Lehigh below disabled by a stroke of paralysis ten years White Haven and for the second time left ago, but he Is a man of unbounded energy Stoddartsville off by itself in the forest. This and by systematic exercise be has largely re¬ flood resulted in the drowning of fully 100 gained his powers. He has a line outfit of persons along the Lehigh. woodworking tools and busies himself in After the failure of Mr. Stoddart’s milling 1 making useful articles which he either pre¬ project, owing to the making of White Haven j sents to his friends or gives to churches to be the head of navigation, Stoddartsville fell j placed on sale. The only thing to mar his into decay until the region began to be in¬ quiet retreat is the growing illness of his vaded by the hardy lumberman in the 30’s. wife, whose presence used to lend so rare a charm to summer life in Btoddartsville. F%ben the whole country^ became alive withJ Prom a sightly bluff on Mr. Stoddart’s lumber camps and saw mills were running grounds can be bad the most picturesque ! day and night in all directions. view of the region. The tract is kept as far At Stoddartsville a dam wa? built on the as possible in a state of nature, pines and falls and the back water created a pool rhododendrons and other denlzons kof the similar to that at Bear Creek, extending up forest having been loft undisturbed. stream for a considerable distance. The As a Philadelphia Stoddart (Isaac) had hemlock and pine logs from up country were gone to Wyoming Valley to marry a Butler floated down to the boom at the pool. The in those early days, so it was both interest¬ SCENES DUBING THE FBESHETS ing and fitting that a Wyoming Valley Butler ( When the logs were carried on the dam (George H.) should in recent years go to Phil¬ with a mighty rush and roar are adelphia and bring as his bride a Stoddart, ( described with great vividness by persons a nieoe of that same Isaac, and thus return ' who were here at that time. In order to get a compliment in kind. rafts past the falls, the product of saw mills William and Harry Stoddart, present prom¬ further up stream at Gouldsboro, Drinker's inent wholesale merchants in Wilkes-Barre, and other points, there was constructed of are cousins, and are grandsons of tbe pioneer timber aud planks, a chute, or as it was call¬ Jobn Stoddart’s brother Leonard, who came ed, a plane. The rafts of lumber, 12 feet wide came from Northumberland and kept the and 61 feet long were run from the pool publio house at Stoddartsville many years. into the chute andthen a floodgate was open¬ William Stoddart is a son of Henry Stoddart, ed and the raft was washed, down into the who succeeded his father in the hotel and slsck water below the falls, known as Dam Harry’s father was the late John Stoddart, One. There were several of these dams be¬ The falls of the Lehigh at Stoddartsville tween Stoddartsville and White Haven, and would furnish a the improvement was the property of the MAGNIFICENT WATEE POWEfi Upper Lehigh Navigation Co. They were for some industry, and there are persons who used until the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co.’s believe it would be feasible to harness them dams were swept out by the flood of 1862. Tor furnishing electricity to Wilkes-Barre. After that time the lumber of the Gouldsboro The Lehigh in the course of a few rods has a region was hauled to the D., L. & W. It. R. fall of some thirty-five feat, and a competent So long as any timber remained in the engineer who has figured on the volume and Stoddartsville region it was floated down on velocity of the stream estimates that 290- spring freshets to the mills at White Haven. horse power is constantly going to waste As if Stoddartsville had not had misfortune twenty-four hours a day, and of ooutse if this enoagU it was nearly water were dammed so us to prevent waste DESTEOYED BY A FOBEST FIEE this power oould be vastly increased, In May, 1875. The fire began near White A word as to the destruction of the timber. Haven and cut a swath a mile or more wide Friends of forest preservation tell us that the for a length of thirty milee. It was only} destruotion.of the timber noticeably dimin¬ stopped near Gouldsborojby the Sand Cut of' ishes the water supply of a region. Persons the D., L. & W. R. R. on the Pocono Moun¬ now living who knew the Lehigh falls when tain. The loss of limber was tremendous. the timber was standing say the volume of At Stoddartsville the heat and darkness were water was fully twice what it is now. appalling and the inhabitants were threat¬ THE BOGUS CITY OF BOME. ened with extreme peril but luokily they The story of the fall of Stoddartsville would escaped with their lives, exoept one woman, not be oomplete without reference to a though several buildings were burned. The gigantic swindling scheme whioh was set Are out a dean path and licked up everything afloat early in the century by a party of of a combustible character, tbe Are spread¬ Philadelphia speculators. The Great Swamp ing by tbe intensity of the heat as well as near Stoddartsville was purchased In 1810 by directly by the flames. this dishonest jtyndloate and laid out as the This was the last of the lumbering industry 73

“Olty ot Rome.” A city government was opr gftnized and mschanloe of various trades The limits of the county .embraced were deluded in buying lota and removing the counties of Wayne, Susquehanna, 1 tbither. The swindle was at length exposed I by Charles Miner in hia newspaper, the Bradford, Wyoming, Lackawanna | Wilkes-Barre Gleaner, but not until, as Pearce j and the present boundaries of Lu¬ ' says, many poor men had invested their means and removed to the “Shades of zerne, at this time a number of the Death.” 100 miles from the sea board, a j boundary lines were imperfectly dark and gloomy swamp through which fled the fugitives from Wyoming after the masst- I known, and subsequently questions ore of 1778. were brought into controversy. -_F. C. J. - Northumberland county was consti¬ tuted in 1772, and embraced the northeastern part of the State includ¬ From, /f UjjlAJL ed in the Indiana treaty of 1758. fS 1 j Luzerne embraced that part of! 1 Northumberland included in what was known as Westmoreland Settle¬ Date, /AL .tjl ment, formerly under the jurisdic- j 1/ r v . tion of Connecticut and not success* J fully resisted by Pennsylvania until 77 * " ------,x4s8 the formation of Luzerne. The part Uar Lycoming county friends who by recent publications have along her northern boundary west of given so much of interest relating'-to the Susquehanna was not open for the century history of our mother settlement by Pennsylvania until I county will pardon us for recalling • after the Indiana treaty of 1784; to mind some important omissions hence no jurisdiction was attempted in the stating of which we will be- until the formation of Luzerne, two gin with Luzerne county which was years later. taken from Northumberland by act An old map, (described by Dr. | of Assembly 25th of September 1786; Craft in his history of Bradford Co., j ®mbracing the following boundaries: of Luzerne, shows the northern line Beginning at the mouth ofNesco- as beginning along the dividing line peck creek and running along the between Pennsjdvania and New south bank thereof, eastward to the i Turk at the fourth mile-stone head ot said creek; thence, a due j and following that line to the 80 east course to head branch of Lehigh j mile-stone, this crosses the Snsque- creek; thence along the east branch I hanna between the 56th and 57th to the head thereof; from thence, a H mile-stone and the Tioga twice; first due north course to the northern Pat the 63d and again at the 84th; boundry of the State; thence wast- I Uence arose the question as to from ward along said boundary till it cros¬ which crossing was intended the ex- : ses the east branch of the Susque¬ tenfcion of 15 miles west. This was! hanna, and then along s&id northern determined in establishing the north boundry fifteen miles west of the eastern boundary of Tiago county, said river; thence by a straight line Sand the western line in part at least to the head of Towauda creek; thence I coinsides with the present line be¬ along the ridge which divides the tween Bradford and Tioga counties. waters of the east branch of the The point from which the line of old Susquehanna from those of the west j Luzerne took an eastward course brancn, to a point due west from ** 1 viz: From the head of Towauda the mouth of the Nescopeck creek; *1 creek along the ridge which divides thence to the place of beginning j^the waters of the east branch of the - * ~ O * Susquehanna from the west branch, - ' rxm, 15 k.jsSNSF'* *3* w*Z: ' •" iViUi long p, subject of dispute. First •as to what constituted the head of Connecticut had conceeded the juris¬ the creek and then in wlvat consti¬ diction of her western territory the tuted the divide. This whole sub¬ right of soil obtained under her ject has been thoroughly brought charter and by Indian purchases out in publications of Hon. 0. D. were still contended. Eldred but seems now to have been These rights had been canceled lost sight of by other writers. by act of Assembly passed March The writer has been led to re¬ 28th 1781 to all who had been actual examine this boundary question by | settlers prior to the time of Pennsyl¬ an evidently inadvertant statement vania assuming jurisdiction in 1783, of Meginness in giving the original and 17 townships in Luzerne county boundaries of Lycoming. The de¬ obtained the benefits of this legisla¬ scription on reaching the New York tion. This consession incouraged state line in Warren county as fol¬ others holding Connecticut titles in lows: ‘'Thence eastward on the state the belief that further consessions line until it intersected the line of ) would be made and a strong politi¬ Luzerne near Athens in Bradford cal organization was constantly en- county; thence southward on the | gaged in forwarding this undertak¬ line of Luzerne until it came within ing. The justness to tbeir claim to the range of Muncy Hills,” the right of soil to all the lands un¬ Now, the facts are as above shown der their charter was defended by that Lycoming originally only ex- j many of the best lawyers of the State tended along the state line to the and so far conceeded by their oppo- north eastern corner of Tioga, and ! mints as to indirectly secure their although afterwards having acquired title when valuable property was in the northern part of what in 1810 issue. Franklin was a power of was concluded in Bradford by the strength in his position as a member ommission Is left out, very impor¬ of the State Legislature, and being tant events in the history of northern backed by a united constituency in Pennsylvania, Luzerne he continued from year to At the time that Lycoming was year to be a constant annoyance to constituted and for several years the Pennsylvania land jobbers and ofter Luzerne county was represent¬ every effort that they could put forth ed in the State Assembly by Col. was used to get rid of him, failing John Franklin who was the leading in their efforts otherwise. A move Representative of a vast landed ors was made to divide the county of ganization known as the Connecticut Luzerne, setting off that part which Susquehanna company. They claim¬ contained the residence of Col. ed the right of soil of all the lands Franklin, to Lycoming. Their included m the northern counties of movements although well understood the Stale for HO miles west of the were not opposed by Franklin, and north branch of the Susquehanna on the 3d day of April 1801 the and were at the time actively engag¬ north-western corner of Luzerne ed in forming settlements all along was attached to Lycoming, and to the northern border of Lycoming the surprise of Franklin’s opponents, j county. Without here going into Lycoming sent him to the Legisla¬ the history of legal claims of the tion in 180S. But the boundary company or the adverce rights of lines described in the act it is found Pennsylvania land holders, will that the dismembered part very* state the fact that after the State c#* nearly corresponds with part of Lu- zerne included in the Indian treaty for they are patriotic young people, and take of 1184. The difference being that a lively interest m the record of tlie mighty [struggle for the preservation of the Union, instead ol following the west branch | and the part which their fathers took an the of the Towanda creek from its mouth war. They have listened to recollections of to its source, the lines passes very war times, as told by the Battery boys them¬ nearly the divide between Towanda selves, and from time to time have read in and Sugar creeks, and takes a small the public prints sketches of the organization —its formation, its membership and its ser¬ portion of land on the east side of vice on the field. All of this is more less tbe river. The old township of familiar to our readers, yet we doubt Canton remained a part of Luzerne, whether many have in mind correct- : and Burnett Ridge was the dividing )y all of the facts concerning the changes that line between Luzerne and Lycoming took place in the organization. Captain David from 1795 until the organization of Schooley, who is still alive, and though ad¬ vanced in years is excedingly well preserved, Bradford in 1810. From the termi¬ j has jotted down a connected story of the or- ! nus of this ridge a distance of 33 janization, which will refresh the memory of, miles the line of Lycoming took its :hose interested. southward course until it came with¬ It should be borne in mind, in the first in the range cf the Muncy Hills, in-, dace, that in its early history the organization stead of at the state line. This cor- vas popularly known as Schooley’s Battery. rectiou- is thought proper to make as This because it was first an independent bat- ery, organized by Captain Schooley, which gjtebas an important relation to our? ifterward became known officially as Battery county history. VI, Second Pennsylvania Artillery, and served Wh. Meylert. n theCivilWar as such. It was recruited under ruthority of the Governor of Pennsylvania then Governor Andrew Curtin) by Captain -tf-_„ David Schooley in Pittston. The time of re¬ From,S.yytW/C..C... quiting was the months of July and August, , 1862, and the Battery was mustered into the service of the United States as Schooley's Battery at Harrisburg about the last of August 1862. Fate^/^S/ From Harrisburg the Battery was ordered to Fort Delavyaie, Del., where it did duty until sqrpe tiipe in the following December- Then, together with another independent Battery from Philadelphia, commanded by ’ Captain Paul Jones, it was assigned to the ” 112th, Pennsylvania Volunteers, con )rganized as an Independent Com¬ stituting what was afterward known as the Second Pennsylvania Artillery, Col. A. A. pany Known as Schooley’s Battery. Gibson,United States Army, commanding,and was on duty in and about the defences of the LATER BATTERY M,2D PA. ARTILLERY National capital. Up to this time the organi¬ zation was known and reported on all returns

Captain David Sclioojey and Comrade to the War Department as Schooley’s Battery. Benj. Evans Furnish Interesting Facts After the consolidation it became Battery M, as to the Organization of the Battery Second Pennsylvania Artillery. and Its Work on the Field, The first commissioned officers of the Bat¬ A new generation has sprung up since tery were: David Schooley, Captain; U. S Battery M was in its prime, since it went to the Cook, First Lieutenant, and William Gee, front, foflowed by the prayers of mothers and Second Lieutenant. There being a question wives, and since it came home after the cruel as to the legality of two additional Lieuten¬ smuggle was over, to receive a royal welcome ' ants, none v/ere at first appointed, bpt Lieuten¬ from the town. It must not be supposed, ant Cook haying died while the Battery was however, that the name is unfamiliar to the young men and young women of today, ■SFEtArr: - - ■

.ationed at Fart Delaware, the First Sergeant Third Brigade.” and future Captain, A. P. Barber, was com- Another note from Comrade Evans’s diary missioned First Lieutenant, vice Cook, de" follows the course of the Battery from Wash¬ ceased. Some sixteen of the original non¬ ington to the close of the war: “From the commissioned officers and men were after¬ defense of Washington went to Chain Bridge, wards commissioned and assigned to- the where Forts Ethan Allen and Marcy were different batteries of the Regiment. Captain located, to relieve the Fourth New York Artil-, Schooley was promoted to the office of Major lery. Battery M left Fort Ethan Allen May of the Regiment, soon after the consolida" 27, 1864, for Cold Harbor. Anchored over tion, and First Lieutenant Barber succeeded night on the Potomac, and here Corporal E. to the Captaincy of Battery M, serving R. Ford fell over board and was drowned. throughout the war, and returning with the (The body was afterward recovered and Battery' to Pittston at' its 'Close. Major. brought to Pittston.) June 4, joined the Schooley also served throughout the war, add Army on the Chicahominy. Took our posi¬ afterward entered the regular, army, serving tion (which was the center) on Sunday, June from 1866 to 1888. 5. That evening at about 8 o’clock, the firing! Jn this connection, a note from the record commenced and lasted about two hours. The kept by Comrade Benj. J. Evans is ot interest, rebels were repulsed. From Cold Harbor,! elaborating as it does upon the field record oji Battery went to White House Landing, and j the Battery. It reads as follows: “Brief re-! then by boat to City Point, within a few miles; cord of Second Pennsylvania Artillery. Or¬ of Petersburg, the destination, where the boys ganized Jan., 1862, under the authority participated in the various engagements that granted Charles Angeroth by War Depart¬ took place in and around that city up to the ment. The officers were: Golonel, Charles [ surrender of Lee.” Angeroth; Lieutenant-Colonel, J. II. Ober- Another extract from Comrade Evans’s re¬ tr.ffer-. Major, Wm. Candidus Three of the cords completes the history of the Battery that companies—p, G &»d H—were ordered to we have been able to gather in a hasty Fort Delaware Jan: 9, 1862. In the fall oi manner during the brief time at our disposal. 1862 they were joined there by Companies L This details the Battery’s movements at and M, afterward doing duty around fortifica¬ Petersburg and reads as follows: tions pt WashingtQU nuid cpripg of r86/|- “In Sept, 1864, the Army of the James in Then a new regiment was organized from tlig part was composed of Birney’s 10th Corps, right of main line before Petersburg; 18th old and sent to the front. This \yas knov/n Corps, under Genl. Ord (in which was Battery as the Second Provisional Artillery. Ml, at Bermuda Hundred. On the nffihtof It was joined to the Ninth Army Corps and Sept. 28, 1864, Battery M and others, after took part in the battte of the Wilderness; In taps was sounded, were ordered to move in May the old Regiment still on duty at or near light marching order to the James River. The Washington, was ordered to join the Eigh¬ 10th Corps, under Gen. Birney was at Deep teenth Army Corps at Cc'H harbor. The Bottom. The 18th Corps, under Gen. Ord, > Regiment was divided into three battalions, at Aiken’s Landing, between Deep Bottom , i commanded by Captain Paul Jones, Maior and Dutch Gap. At daylight of Sept. 29, Anderson and Major Sadler. The Second crossed the James River on muffled pontoon Battalion, under Jones, was hotly engaged at bridges. The 18th Corps advanced on Vanna Petersburg on June 18. Loss—killed, 60; road in a northwesterly direction to New¬ J wounded, 65. Among the wounded was market road. Proceeded about one mile. Captain Jones. McClure, of Co. F, succeeded Met the Rebel pickets two or three miles in command. During the summer, the old from Aiken’s Landing. Found entrench¬ Regiment did duty in the trenches around ments running westward from the road to the Petersburg, and during three months lost James, and ending in a well constructed Fort, more than one-half its strength. The Regi¬ known as Battery Harrison, well provided ment was in the charge at the mine explosion with artillery. The Fort was captured, afte1- in Petersburg. The First and Second Batta. severe fighting, with its sixteen pieces of ar lions assaulted Battery Harrison on Chapin’s tillery and over 200 prisoners. The attack farm, Sept. 29, 1864 Over 200 killed, was a surprise. The loss to Union force* wounded and missing. Among the killed was was 800 men. The battle was all over about' Major Anderson. The total number of deaths 10 a. m. About 2 p. m. Sept. 30th, 1864.1 in the Regiment was 616. In this engage¬ the Confederates appeared in great force in ment, Battery M was in the Second Division, front of Battery Harrison. The line of capt_ ured works was held by the 18 th Corps on able to hold its own against a first class the eft. The object of the Confederates was storm. A great deal of the early history of Plymouth is grouped around this tree to make a break between the ioth and the and in Hendrick B. 'Wright’s Historical 18th Corps. The blow fell on the right of sketches ot Plymouth, this copy from the the 18th Corps and the left of the ioth Corps. old town Journal is made showing a Three times the Rebels charged in very large resolution passed Maroh 2,1774: “It was voted at tnis meeting that for numbers and each time got near the works. ye present ye tree that now stands north¬ They were-.driven back every time with great erly from Captain Butler’s house, shall be ye Town Sign-Post.” slaughter, although the Rebs charged very In explaining the town sign-post the determinedly. The lost in the affair 200 pris' historian describes it as a place where all oners, including 20 officers, and nearly 800 business of the-town was transacted, the place tor posting notices, the public whip, men. On the night of Sept. 30, heavy rain ping-post, the exchange, auction mart, the fell as a result of such heavy firing, and con. forum, the hustings, recruiting depot, the place for holding elections and the general tinued through the following day and night. center of all business affairs. At night the troops slept on the field. No After the adoption of this tree as the public sign post a strife grew ud between tents or other shelter from the storm. The the people on the two sides of the river. A -loss to the Union forces was 500.” At flu- vote was taken and the west side carried it and the sign-post was changed. It was time Battery M \yas in the and Division, 3rd a certain tree in Kingston, “ten rods north’ Brigade, 18th Army Corps: They were also of the house of Mr. Ross.” ip the second line of battle at the Mine Crater After this a compromise was made aai£ the two sign-posts remained, the meet¬ pear Petersburg, Va. It may be of interest to ings being held half of the year at each place. This compromise was for one prany to give brief facts as to the historic year. Crater and mine. It was two hundred feet The town poor were also sold at the pub¬ long, sixty feet wide, thirty feet deep. The lic meetings held at the sign-post until Judge Burnside caused the overseers ot Mine was four and one-half feet wide, four the poor in some district to be indicted in and one-half feet high, with eight magazines; his court and imposed on this offense of humanity. Later in the history the hia-* formed four in each gallery, separated by bags torian says that no records remain of the of sand and wood, wooden pipes laid within later meetings and he is uncertain as to where the first triumvirate, Phineas Nash, hundred feet of magazines. The magazines Captain David Martin and J. Gaylord, held contained four tons of powder. The mining their court. was done by Pennsylvanians. The mine was Following this he says: “I have but lit¬ tle doubt, therefore, but the old school- house upon our hill was in the early days the forum of justice, and the old elm, the public sign post and whipping post of Plymouth, ninety-eight years ago.” (This would be about 1775). He closes the chap¬ ter by making a plea for the permittance of the tree to stand. “Will you spare it ? It stands there now, erect, green and vig¬ orous, a glorious landmark of th e early days of Plymouth, and it is to be hoped that it may be permitted to remain. The eyes of our ancestors rested upon it in days agone. To me it is a pleasant reminder of I the plain and primitive days of the town.”

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Veterans Have a Reunion N. Y.; I. F. Roberts, Carbondale; Will¬ at Pittston. iam McClave, Scranton; William Scott, Binghamton, N. Y.; A. J. Scott, Plains; Solomon Miller, Avoca; Edwin Jen¬ kins, Laflin; Alfred Evans, Scranton; Major Lennard of W ilkes-Barre Pre« N. C. Laning, Shickshinny. The Women’s Relief Corps of Pitts¬ sensed With a Handsome Badge— ton, which-was instrumental in secur¬ ing the reunion for Pittston, served re¬ Tlie Business Meeting and the freshments at noon. The hall was prettily decorated with j Campfire-History of the Regi¬ the national colors and when Maj. G. , R. Lennard of Wilkes-Barre rapped for ment. order at shortly after 2 o’clock many stood at "attention,” as if waiting for The annual reunion of the 52d Regi¬ the command “forward,” and those who j ment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, com¬ occupied seats were alert and In readi- ; monly known as “Governor Hoyts ness for the next command. Rev. G. regiment,” was held at Eagle Hall, C. Lyman, pastor of the Broad Street Pittston, yesterday, and despite the in¬ M. E. Church, offered prayer, after clemency of the weather in the moi n- which the president’s annual address ing, the attendance was larger than was read. It encouraged the reunions was expected. The following regis- and spoke of the good derived from re¬ tered: newing old friendship. Col. Dodge ex¬ H. R. Crawford, New York; C. H. pects to be with, the “boys” next year. Pana, Tunkhanock; P. Alldred, Pitts- Secretary H. C. Miller of Kingston 'burg; B. P. Walter, Factoryville. made his report. During the year just Musicians—E. M. Barney, Montrose; ended ten members have died, and W. M. Treglein; Maj. George R. Len- letters were read from sixteen members nard, Wilkes-Barre. stating their regrets for not being able Co. A—D. W. Holly, Berwick; Thos. to be present. Ray, Sunbury; John Scott, Wilkes- The financial secretary next read his Barre; William Moore, Wilkes-Barre; report. The receipts were $204.03; dis- I G. G. Parker; John T. Mahler, Ply¬ bursements, $190.87; balance on hand, mouth; I. E. Finch, Wilkes-Barre; C. $14.16. . „ ! B. Monegan, Wilkes-Barre; John W. H. McClave, H. R. Crawford, E. Huntsman, Scranton; W. H. Taylor, R. Peckens and William Scott were | Harveyville; Nelson S. Eeveland, Ber¬ appointed a committee to draft reso- I wick. lutions, and after a short deliberation Co. B—Charles Russell, Russell Hill; i they presented the following: G. L. Kennard, Meshoppen; J. T. Miller, | Whereas, In the providence of Al- Sayre; N. B. Allen, Wilkes-Barre; R. ! mighty God, ten of our members have W. Bannatyne, Tunkhannock; A. H. been mustered out by the grim mes¬ Frear, Lake Winola; A. T. Tiffany, senger death, and can therefore meet 1 Eaton; J. B. Maxwell; Earl Ellis. with us no more at our yearly gather- |' Co. C—Irving T. McClosky, Wilkes- I in§s, Barre; J. H. Convin, Montrose; Utley Therefore be it resolved, That we Turner. l bow in humble submission to the Co. D—Ignatz Rees; T. D. Ransom; ! Divine will, and pledge ourselves anew I Joseph McCracken, Old Forge. to stand by the old flag, and by each Co. E—J. L. White, Luzerne Borough; other, and also to seek by every means W. C. May, Pittston. 1 to cheer and sustain those they have Co. F—David Blizzard, Evans Falls; left behind. Andrew Singer, Clark’s Summit; H. N. The following officers were unam-1 - Mott, Glen burn; R. P. Lindley, Brook¬ mously chosen: President, Maj. G. R. | lyn; George H. Knight; B. K. Gustin, Lennard of Wilkes-Barre; first vice East Smithfield. president, Capt. W. R. Bannatyne, Co. G—John F. Mentz, Wilkes-Barre; Tunkhannock; second vice president, Henry Rummerfield, Avoca; James W. Capt. C. C. Battenburg, Archbald; sec¬ Evans, Berwick; W. S. Stark, Plains; retary and treasurer, TI. C. Miller, Edward Miller, Pittston; E. E. Rozzell, j Kingston; chaplain, M. D. Fuller, Brooklyn; Theodore Hallstead, Lacka¬ Owego. wanna; Joseph Shiner, Henry Schifferi, This is the ninth consecutive year Wilkes-Barre; Noah Adams, West that Maj. Lennard has been elected! Pittston; Henry I-L King, Harvey’s president of the association without Lake; Samuel Lilly, Wyoming. any opposition, and Mr. Miller hast Co. H—H. C. Miller, Kingston; Phile- served several terms as secretry. ton Pickering, Francis Pickering, Peck- After much deliberation and the con¬ ville; David Baker, Shultzville; W. N. sultation of ways and means, it was Smith, Newton; C. M. Appleman, G. decided to hold the next reunion at i VC. Wilder, Joseph Nash, Nelson La- Lock Haven. The business was closed Rose, Anthony Long, Henry Ward, with a resolution of thanks to the Scranton; Fred Whitehead, Passaic, N. Women’s Relief Corps, which had left J., J. R. Roberts, Falls; E. R. Peckins, nothing undone in the manner of en¬ Plymouth; W. H. Doyle, Robert Barnes, tertainment. , „ ^ . C. P. Travaskis, Peckville; Conrad The “boys” next proceeded to enjoy! Grab, Archbald. themselves with songs, etc. The first I Co. I—S. B. Williams, Pittston; Jona¬ called upon was drum major Parker, than Davis, Wilkes-Barre; J. H. who despite the fact that he has pass¬ Schlager, Scranton; Patrick Hourigan, ed the seventy-third milestone in his Wilkes-Barre; W. H. Harris. earthly career, mounted the platform, Co. K—G. Neiman, Scranton; Ed¬ and in a pleasant voice rendered a hu¬ mund Jones, Carbondale; R. S. Seares, morous war song, entitled “Casey.” As. Carbondale; C. E. Morrison, Oneonta, he described in notes the valbc or tms great warrior and the deeds he accom¬ plished, the ‘'boys” seemed to be once more seated in front of the tent before the camp fire, while this gentleman was doing his utmost to make soldier , life more interesting than that of the ordinary run. Maj. Parker was given a great ovation. B J. Evans of Pittston was on hand &1}d *ang' “The Old Coffee Kettle which is always heartily welcomed. ’ ® The next on the program was a num- ber of unusual interest, and was as pretty a scene as ever was enacted at ci reunion. It showed the fine feeling and noble hearts that once beat under blue coats. Hugh Crawford advanced to the front of the stage, carrying a small box in his hands. When within a few feet of Maj. Lennard he took the wrappings from the parcel and held to view a handsome gold regimental badge. With a few appropriate re¬ marks he pinned it to the breast of the astonished Maj. Lennard, on behalf of the “boys” of the gallant old 52d, in recognition of his deeds of valor as a I soldier and his untiring efforts in the interest of the survivors’ association To him is due a great deal of credit for the flourishing condition in which it is at present. When the really surprised major recovered the use of his vocal organs he accepted the present in a neat speech, heartily thanking the don¬ ors. The badge is one of the prettiest that has ever been made, .and the major feels highly honored, as it tends to show the feeling of love that re¬ mains with the men who once followed him into endless dangers thirty ve&rs ago. _The reunion was brought to a close 1 by all uniting in singing “My Country i.’Tis of Thee,” all voices joining. History of the Regiment. The 52d Regiment was recruited in Wilkes-Barre August 1, 1861, by John C. Dodge, Jr., of Lycoming County, by authority of Governor Curtin, then governor of Pennsylvania. John C. Dodge, Jr., was appointed colonel. Henry M. Hoyt of Wilkes-Barre, after¬ wards governor of the State, was ap¬ pointed lieutenant colonel, and John G. Conyngham, also of this city, major. On taking the field the 52d was as¬ signed to the First Brigade, Third Di- . vision and fourth Corps. It marched from Washington to Alexandria and thence went by transport to Newport News, where it embarked. As the regiment marched to take possession of the deserted works at Yorktown on the 4th of May a torpedo exploded under Co. F, killing one man and wounding six others. From Yorktown it moved forward with its brigade to Williamsburg, where it arrived just in time to sup¬ port Gen. Hancock in his gallant charge. The regiment was engaged in the battle of Fair Oaks, which occurred on the 31st of May, 1862, and out of 249 men who went into the battle 125 were killed and wounded and four taken prisoner. Among the wounded officers were Capts. Davis, Lennard and Chamberlain. IHB^While the battle at Gaines’s. Mill was 7,0

for over 60 years. After Dr. Mayer's death the house went to the Laning estate, and Mrs. W. L. Conyngham bought it from / ^ them a few months ago. The price Dr. From, . « Mayer paid for it was $6,000. When Mrs. Conyngham became the purchaser the price had gone to $35,000, and that was the .1 figure of the recent deal. The lot runs hali way back to Franklin street. The old house is best known as the Dr. Mayer house. It was for years his home and the slightly bent iigure of the honored Date, ^^2 . I physician as he came or went will never be forgotten by those who remember him so well. Nor will they ever be able to for¬ get that sad day when the beloved clay was >•*• yyfdtitii* borne out the door by loving hands and laid to that rest that he never knew iu life. For he worked himself to death. An over OF HISTORIC INTEREST confidence in his friends had made him an unfortunate loser of most all he had through endorsing and the days that he Was This Old Stone House. might have enjoyed the dolce far nilnte of life were taken up with hard toll that would have been a tax on the youngest of The Hast of the Old River Street men. The frame addition to the house with its severe Doric simplicity had a rare Houses Making Way for the March grace when the genial presence of Dr. of Progress. Mayer iuvested it. Tne patient used to enter through a little vestibule The stone house on South River street, and in the first little room beyond between the residences or John N. Conyng- lie would find a doctor. “Well what’s 1mm and Thomas Graeme, is being torn the matter with you now,” he would say, down to make room for a lawn and per¬ with a brusque tone but a look of interest haps for another house at no distant day. and sympathy. Many a time people hnve The building possesses a historic interest be in cheered out of a feeling of illness by to the older Witkes-Barrean. It was built the geniality, the good cheer and the en¬ couragement that he knew so well how to in 1803 by John W. Robinson and that day give. But he did not give these ouf of a was considered a very elaborate affair. It full store of his own fine health. As a was put up to stay. The walls of stone matter of fact he was a sufferer much of are very thicK and the mortar is of the the time physically and yet he found it sort that has solidified the wall like a possible to make other people continually single piece of stone. Rumor has it that happy. Great and good was Dr. Mayer Mr. Robinson, the man who built the and his memory is preserved in the hearts and the affections of all with whom he house, buried in the foundation a bottle of came in contact. It was impossible to whiskey. It hasn’t yet been found, but it know him and not be attracted to his must be a rare silken quality by this time. magnetic manliness. Unselfish, true, a A frame part containing considerable very Gareth iu patience and knightly room wasamuch later addition, and the courtesy and chivalry, the old house hail classic little frame office of Dr. Mayer is an added charm while lie lived there. not very old. At the time this old house was built there was only one other like it on the en¬ tire River front. That is, there was only one other stone house. This was the re¬ sidence of Jacob Cist, and it stood where From, .- the handsome home of the Misses Alexan¬ der now stands next the McOlintock house. Both stone houses were in their day something especially fine in the way v fd(, . A of a private residence. As to the man who built the house in question. He came here from Susque¬ hanna county in the first year of this Date, century, and soon afterward married Ann, daughter of Col. Zebulon Butler, and sister of the late Steuben Butler. In 1800 the Wilkes-Barre and Easton turnpike was finished to the top of the Pocono moun¬ tain and soon after was completed to this city at a cost of $75,000. Then this same THE OLD STAMPING GROUND. John W. Robinson and John R. Arndt kept the leading hotel here on the site now occupied bv the Darling house, River street. They also began to Battery M Survivors Grasp Hands run a line of stages between Wilkes- Barre and Easton. J. W. Robin¬ and Renew Acquaintances. son had four children: Houghtou B., I Charles and John, and Mrs. Col. Wright. The house was sold to Dr. Mayer by A FINE REUNION AND BANQUET. Houghton Robinson about 1868, having been in the possession of the one estate 5 M Captain Schooley Does Himself Proud, in Bloomsburg train, for ~N rrthumberland, Providing a Banquet for His Old Com¬ thence to be taken to Harrisburg, and then rades and Their Families on the Oc¬ still further to Washington, to assist in the casion of Their Annual Reunion. defence of the National cap tal. in view The twenty-eighth annual reunioncf the of these facts, as we have said, the ar¬ survivors of Battery M, Second Pennsyl¬ rangements for the reunion were most ap vania Artillery, was held in the Eagle Hotel propriata, last evening, and it proved one of the most Plx o’clock was the honr set for the busi¬ successful and at the same time one of the ness meeting, which preceded the feasting most enjoyable ever held by the Battery. and the speech-making. About thirty of It was most fitting that this gathering of the comrades participated. The meeting the boys of Sohooley’s Battery—as the cr- was held on the portico, overlooking the r ganization was popularly known, in honor rendezvous of war times. Comrade W. I of its worthy commander—should have H. Shaver, of Kingston, president of the (been held in this city and in the Eagle Battery Association, presided, and Com¬ | Hotel. The Battery was organized in Pitts- rade Berj, J. Evans, acting as secretary; ! ton, and the flowar of onr young manhood took the minutes. First the bills for the composed its i ank and file. Then, it was year just closed, amounting so $7.50, were from the Eagle Hotel; a hostelry whose ordered paid. Comrade John Barnes, I fame runs back into the early history of treasurer, read his report. The balance the city, that the boys marched away on from 1895 was $14 25. The collections that eventful day ia August, thirty four during the year amounted to $14 25. There years ago, in response to the urgent oall had been paid out $18 37, leaving a balance for troops in defense of the Union. in the treasury of $5. i3 The report of the Not a few of the Battery boys who were treasurer was accept d, and he was tender¬ present last evening but recalled the scenes ed a vote of thanks for his services. The aDd incidents which marked their depart¬ election of officers came next. President W. H Shaver declined a re-election, and' Comrade Evan J, Evans, of West Pittston, was unanimously elected io that position for the ensui g year. Comradi Benj. J. Evans was re-elected secretary, and Com¬ rade John Barnes was ra-eleeted treasurer. A resolution, offered by Ccmrade Dorr, was passed, instructing the newly-e’ected president to appoint a committee of two oomrades to act with the officers in select¬ ing a place for the annual reunion next year, and the president named Oomrades JohuF. Tench and William Gee as the members of the committee. Daring the interval between the close of the business meeting aod the opening of the banquet a social season was enjoyed by the soldier boys. Many of them were ure for the scene of war. It was from the accompanied by their wives and children, Eagle Hotel balcony that one of the towns j and the parlor of the hotel was crowded men spoke parting words to them, and it ; by a happy company, who renewed ae was in front of this hostelry that the pop¬ qn J.intances and recounted enjoyable ex-1 ulace gathered to bid the boys farewell. I periencts at reunions of the Battery Id; It seemed, said one whose memory carried years gone by. Some there were present' him back in a moment through dec¬ whoeehusbandaor fathers, former members odes of time to the day and place, as of the Battery which was Pit tat on’a prld , j though all the people in the community have gone to their final rest, and to these had turned out to show their appreciation tender recollections came of days when of the boys who had so nobly responded to they, too, were happy in the company oi Governor Curtin’s appeal, “For God’s those they held most dear. This informal sake, send us men !” and they followed the honr was rich in the pleasur e tt brought, Battery, step by step, all the way to the to comrad e who joined hands ouoe more. Junction station, where they boarded a 82

after the lapes ot*a year and to the wives i veterans present as comrades, and assnred and children wbSss love for tbs boys in j them of the sincerity and warmth of his bine was bat strengthened as they, saw welcome. We aro getting old, ha said, their locks whitening and their .steps fal¬ out our hearts are just as warm to one tering under the immutable law of nature another as when we drank from the same and the sufferings which they underwent canteen in the field. As we meet now, thus the Nation might live. after the lapse cf years, and clasp hands The doors of the banquet hall were again, our hearts are filled with feelings opaned at 8:30, rwaaiing the pretty scene that no words can express. In conclusion, of neatly arranged tables, tastily eet off he said he was proud of all branches of with beautiful growing plants, and ihe servloe, but he w»s especially proud of “Old G ory,” the silken flag presented to Battery M, of its worthy commander. Cap the Battery * y the ladies of Pittston, tain Sohboley, and of tne honorable record standing cor-epicuou y over all. The which the boys have left of themselves on seine was most invitiug, aad the guests en¬ the pages of the Nation’s history. joyed it to the utmost Aj hour was spent Before taking his seat, Comrade Shaver in the discussion of the cnoice merm pro¬ referred in meet complimentary terms to vided oy Mine lost Suyder. The table >the fact of one of the battery officers hav¬ / service was excellent, and the banquet was ing been called higher soon after the Bat¬ in every res >ect- a great success. The / tery arrived on the field. This worthy young proprietor of the E»gle deserves member was present, he said, hnd then credit for the eklll with which this feature Lbnt. William Davie, of Plymouth, was of the reunion was managed. Thera was called upon for a speech. Lieut. Davis nothing laokicg that might have added to said that inasmuch as his car left for home the pleasure of the banquet. within five minutes his speech would neces¬ The banquet over, there was a season of sarily be brief. It was short, but so spicy speech making, though it was of necessity as to at once evoke considerable laughter. brief, owing to many of the guests being 3e said that it was true he had been pro¬ obliged to leave for home at an early hour moted and transferred from Battsry M, Comrade Shaver, of Kingston, acted as I and he appreciated the kind things which toastmaster, and made the opening ad¬ the toastmaster bad said about him. His dress. Speaking particularly to the mem¬ humorous remark to the effect that he had bers of Battery M, he said that thirty-four been trans-. erred for the reason that the years ago was an eventful period in their commanding officers knew him to be a lives. Then It was that they were trans good, moral young man and that the Bat¬ formed in a moment from ordinary cit'zans tery boys were rough and no fit company to fighting soldiers. The speaker said he for one of his tender years and pliable I was not quite fifteen years of age then. He mind, brought dowa the house, and the was sm«lt in stature, but large iu appetite, vets declared it to be a “whopper.” Leav¬ and toe remark caused a smile to pass over ing aside his humor for a moment, Lieut. the countenances of the veterans, as though Davis paid a high tribute to Captain the h.Her part of It was to them suggestive Uchooley and referred to the new evidences of more -.ban it was to the younger cnes which he was manifesting of his love for o ' amoDg the company, who did not kno w what his comrades of war days. In concluding it was to be the victim of a good-sized ap the speaker referred happily to the large petite In war times wnen tne wherewithal^ number of ladies acd young people with to satisfy the craviogs of the inner which the company was sprinkled, as prov- man were n«t quite so plentiful as they irg that while Captain David Schooley was were on the tables before them then, drilling them in the tactics of warfare ho !> thanks to the thoughtfulness and gener¬ was also instructing them, by precept, if osity of their old comrade in arms and not by example, in the art of capturing worthy commander, Captain Sohooley. f.he iisarta of the fair ones when thsy ar¬ Comrade Shaver said further that he had rived home from the scenes of the war. felt some misgivings when he was chosec In this important characteristic, the a year ago to the honorable position of speaker concluded, nearly all of the pri¬ president, and he deemed that the most vates had excelled their otherwise success¬ fitting time to make his acknowledgements ful and worthy oommander. to the comrades fof the confidence reposed C unrade Joseph M. Alexander, of Car- in him and the support accorded him dar¬ bondale, was the next speaker, and his re- A ing his term of office. He greeted the i 83

marks Were chiefly in a humorous vein, he believed the South} had no right - tending to give an idea of the soica which I to eeoede anti he stack b.v the principle to is iD jected into army life, even in the thiok : ths very last, though the action separated

of a fight. He told about accidentally run- j him for the time being from the oomp ny ning across a son of a comrade of Baltery and sympathy of those he held most dear M who is engaged as a preacher. When Toe presentation of “Father” Hunt’s they became acquainted, Alexander said, picture was one of the happiest features of j “Your father cooked beans for me in the the evening. The kindness of Miss Rio- i army, and now his son is trying to convert pard, in thus remain baring her grand¬ mo ” Comrade Alexander stopped for a father’s war-time associates, was appreci¬ moment to pay a tribute to the memory of ated by them, aad theiv appreciation found I the Battery members who had been re¬ expression in a resolution of thanks ofl'ered ported since the previous reunion es hav¬ by Comrade Shaver and passed unani-l ing parsed away. They were five iu nnm- mously by a rising vote. » ber—Robert Shannon, Benjamin Everett, This brought the reunion to a close, ex-f Watkin Powell, George M. Stark and C, cept that before dispersing the veterans f 3. Mantaaye. joined in three hearty ehesrs for Captain j The next and final speaker was Rev Dr Sehooley. Is was to the Captain that the Parke. The Doctor’s figure has been a thanks of those present were due for the familiar one at the Battery reunions, and very pleasant evening which they bad en¬ he said he felt as taough he was an honor- joyed. Gener ally the members of the Bat , ary member of the association, though his tery furnish toe dinner which sets off the I connection with the Btttery has been anneal reunion, but on this occasion. Cap¬ principally since its return from the war tain Sehooley insisted ou footing all the and chiefly since thee as a gneat and speak¬ bills out of his owa pocket, and it is du er at the various reunions which the Bat- the Captain to say that in famishing the tery has held. The speaker said that there dinner nothing was spared that might add were two companies of soldiers who fonght to the pleasure of the diners. As one of in the war for the Union in both of which the comrades expressed it, the Captain- ae had a special interest, since they were more than repaid the boys for the scant organized in Pittston aad were composed rations upon which he sometimes put them of his personal friends, many in fact being while they were fighting the enemy In the j members of his congregation. The first of fijid, wish the Commissary D partment not! la good shape. these, he ea'd, was a company o? emergency men and toe other was Battery M. Dr. And thus another year has rolled overj Parke referred briefly to having accom¬ Battery M. As the d ,,ys succeed one; panied the boys a portion of their journey another, the ranks which the ravages of j toward the front and acting for a time as war thinned and wrecked ate being still; their chaplain. In concluding his address, further lessened by the decimating band of, he called attention to a beautiful crayon time, and the day is not very far distan > , portrait, neatly framed, of the ;ata Rev, when the last member of the Battery aha 11 j Thomas P. Hunt, who bad faithfully serv¬ have answered the final roll-call, bnt the ed Battery M as chaplain for two years. memory of the brave baud will always be This picture, ho said, he was authorized green In the eyes of our patriotic oitizens, to present to the association on behalf who will ever revert with pride to ihe of Miss Kate Rippard, of Biltimore, a| honorable part which they took in saving granddaughter of the chaplain. Dr Parka the Nation from dit-membsiment. paid a glowing tribute to the memory of Tae following were among those who Chaplain Hunt, of whom he had been an attended the banquet: intimate friend for more tuan a quarter of Luzerne Captain D»vid Sehooley. a oentnry. He said that although he had Piitston—Evan JT. Evans and danghier, idiosyncrasies, he had also certain rare Samuel T. Davis and daughters, John qualities of character that were not only A. Stone and wife, George W. recognized hy his friends, but ware acknowl¬ [Archer, William Gee, Miss Mar¬ edged by those with whom, by reason of garet Gee, Becj. J. Evans, wife and his firm adherence to certain moral princi¬ daughter, A. J. Eggleston and family C ples, he was; strenuously opposed. Chap¬ H. Dorr, P. M. Sutton and wife, John lain Hunt, t){. Parka said, was a Southern Barnes and wife, James Orr, wife and mon by birth a'-,d family connections, but daughter, Joseph Frederick and wife

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Lanra Frederick,-Georga Chamberlain and wife, William Tinklepangh and wife, Mrs. Margaret Bragg, John F. Tench, wife and- 'daughter Martha, Mrs. Emma Emigh, Mias Julia Emigh, Mrs. A. J. Marsh and daugh¬ ter Ethel, Mrs. Alyira Eshelman, Daniel Veterans of Seven Counties! y •Howell, wife and daughter, Fred M. Eahel- raan, Richard Howell John F. Grnbe and at Mountain Park. wife, Miss Mame Grnb Stanley Crooks and wife, Rev. Dr. Parke Mra. James Man- tanye They Meet in Annual Reunion That Kingston—W. H, Shaver and wife, Ei. They May Dwell Upon the Mem¬ S Powell, Ralph Shaver. ories of the Late War and Talk Avoca—C. M. Blackwell, Wm. Sanders, About Its Incidents —Montrose 0 D Sanders and wife. the Next Reunion Place-Speeches Wilkesbarre J. J. Barber and wife, by Judge Darte, Gen. Osborne, W. Ohas. Vanderbn g. Moosic—Mrs. Kate Hill. D. Painter of Binghamton and 1 / -•• Scranton—Merritt Tompkins, L. H. Others. Wint and wife, Mrs Snyder, Mrs. James The reunion of the Seven-Counties S$one, Frank Hughes, David Thompson. Veteran Association was held yeste: day at Mountain Park and a couple L ike WInola—Jsrry HufiEord. thousand people enjoyed the pleasure: Forty S'ort—Marcus M. Smith and wife. of the day. The counties that have a membership in the association are Sayre—B. F. Embleton. Broome County, New York, and Brad¬ Nanticoke—J. B. Anderson and wife. ford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susque¬ Carbondaie—Joseph M. Alexander. hanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties in Pennsylvania, Dumaore—Washington Spangenburg and Early in the morning the veterans wife. / met at G. A. R. hall on South Main street and, headed by the Ninth Regi¬ Plymouth—Thomas Jenkins and wife, ment Band, marched up South Main William Davis, Miss Cora Davis, Frank. M. thence out East Market to the Central | Girton, Miss Anna 0. Givton. station, whA-e they took the train for j Mountain Park. No record of the ex¬ Comrade Ben j, J. Evans, of this city, act number present was kept, but | secretary of the Battery Association, ia every county in the association sent a | good sized delegation to the reunion. collecting all the pictures he can find of Arrangements had been made with the I the members of the Battery, with a view Central Railroad of New Jersey by j to having the f ame neatly arranged and which special trains were run to the i park at frequent intervals, and these photographed on a card of a size suitable were crowded with veterans, their to be framed For a year or two he has wives and children, who went out to j been engaged in the work, and he has spend an enjoyable day In the woods. A special train over the Delaware & about fi.ty photographs. Several promt Hudson R. R. brought those from the nent members of the Battery have, collec¬ northern end of the State and from Broome County, New York, these being tions of pictures which they will turn over the last delegation^ to arrive. to Mr Evans, so that altogether he will After reaching the park the picnick¬ have an interesting collection. Captain ers dispersed. The band was stationed in the dancing pavilion and played at Schooley has promised to giva his picture, intervals during the morning. The and it will ba placed in the center of the “headquarters” pavilion, as it was call¬ ed, was some distance below the main group. 9 pavilion and was decorated with the torn battleflags of the various com¬ mands represented in the association. , b '' Here it was that the principal meeting of the day was held. After a morning spent principally in the woods by the From,C./\?...c. .( > JL.. . large number of picnickers, lunch was served under the auspices of the Sons of Veterans and the strollers came back to the main pavilion. Shortly after dinner the Prisoners of the War Association, composed of those members of the Veterans’ Association Date, X.x,.,. who spent any time in Southern pris¬ oC jJL ons, held a short meeting. Capt. 7 Pierce of Scranton presided over this meeting. Some reminiscences of prison life In the South were related. A num- fing his Te,- .P-LjMBUK'W

•v ;ber of new names were enrolled in the membership list and the meeting closed I sented his regretsaFnot Deing able to with smgmg “Rally hound the flag ! be at the park, on account of his ab- boys,” “My country his of thee?” and I pnw f^rVhe State> and a third from other patriotic and national songs P. W. Fleitz of Scranton, who was to Among the prominent G. A R men nave been one of the speakers, said who were present at this meeting were that urgent business had taken him'to S: Osborne, president of the New York. The Ninth Regiment Band Veterans Association, Capt. N A Mc- occupied a position back of the speakers’ Kown of Tunkhannock, Capt. H. P. stand and furnished music at intervals Beardslee of Montrose, Col H C Jes throughout the exercises. - Then came the addresses of the after- Cant°J f°2£rose’ ,Co1- Laycock' and ^apt J. i. Shoemaker of Wyoming, C. noon. In introducing each speaker chairman Campbell made an entirely Barre P A^ju‘ant J°slln of Wilkes- iiaire, p. H. Campbell of Wilkes- I neYi departure from the stereotyped methods and did so by narrating some B ATth nd ,Juds'® Darte of Kingston. At the close of this meeting- the en- I wh?cwnn5 rem,lniscense in the war of tiie party, largely augmented by others | which the speaker was the hero The first one introduced was W. D. Painter hear the addresses went to the headquarters pavilion, where the | of Binghamton, district attorney of principal meeting of the day was to be j Broome County, N. Y„ and a most el!: held. Among those who occupied seats ! loont and able speaker. Mr. Painter upon the platform besides Gen. Osborne tion-in“Thre’ rfter ^ bumorous introduc- wno presided, were Col. P H CarnD- The ties which bind the hearts of old soldiers in the bonds of frater¬ ne'v Wi ™ef-+Barre. District A«o?- nal friendship, leap beyond the bound- Y r>' ?al^ter’ of Binghamton, N. and unite ln one common pVMaj- °- A. Parsons of Wilkes-Barre, biotherhood the heroic defenders of the hoi Harry Laycock and Capt. Shoe¬ flag through the Union. These annua! maker of Wyoming, Capt. De Lacy of | reunions are fraught with much of pro- lSeCelano °nMC01; JessuP'and Capt: Beards- j fit and inspiration as well as pleasure °£ Montrose, £apt. ' McKown of ! fore?hpn0t nnly aff0rd an °PPortunRy Tunkhannock, Maj. Watts and Dr Kes- , for the exchange of friendly greetings town Bonfdale' B- & Davis of Camp- and the renewal of old association!but town Capt. Pierce of Scranton, Capt they also kindle afresh the fires of Da U^ted of Binghamton, D. M. JonesP0f tnotism in our breasts and fill ?he Wilkes-Barre, Judge Darte of Kings- hearts of our people, whose liberty and ton J. W. Hall of Honesdale, Capt. T. Union were defended and preserved wiuark|.r and Dr' S- B' Sturdevant of with loving gratitude to thoseToS Wilkes-Barre and a number of other men who left home, kindred, loved onis veterans of the late war and a consider¬ all for our country’s sake tHoJ Vu- able number of ladies. land might be reclaimed from the hand Gen Osborne called the meeting to 1 of treason, redeemed fro-m the curse of Col p w ^6n placed U in the hands of human bondage, preserved through the -oi. p. h. Campbell of Wilkes-Barre storm of battle and perpetuated for uho was made chairman of the busi- ever m fadeless glory and honor i rnZS ™etla* The first business to We remember the old soldiers to-dav I come before the body was the selection because they remembered us in the hour 1 of our national trial; we honor reiininriaC? ,n wbieh t0 hold the next P™™' Lake Ariel, Honesdale and for they honored the’ old flag and w rWG^f su^ested, and Hones- cherish the hallowed memory of our Wf "as 5??IIy ohosen. Then came the dead defenders, for they left a election of the president to succeed Gen rendered immortal by heroic d!!d d they sealed that record in blood and and°Mn i B°rJhis position Capt. Baker -JOlh_an ndlmV.u;^ „^OCl,ancl and Map Watts, both of Honesdale were named, but before the balloting be! liberty. ?aP tde nam® CaPt- Baker was with- diawn and Map Watts was chosen by a ’amatioh. - Maj. Watts was quarter¬ master of the 6ith .Pennsylvania Volun- teers and bore the reputation through- in that slagde purpose expressed nfflr«ve war beins a brave and able t cei. He chose for his secretary Dr K^ler- aIso of Honesdale. The vice presidents were chosen in accord¬ ance with the rules of the organization, -eacb county, except the county having the president, and were as follows: Susquehanna County, Capt. Coun'tv Tt0n°f Montrose; Bradford , B- S. Davis of Camptown; lb Lackawanna County, Capt. E. W I enduring giorv’ t+ A, °nouia it live in Ma o°fASC-pant0n; Ll!zerne County, WvnminowA Barsons of Wilkes-Barre; « terr,ble „ir ljUKf. Et SS of Tunkb;P0Untiy’ ^aP^- M. A. McKown 5 lLlSa“ JffO* Preserved and ChuuL, ^ Bmstead of Binghamton, gram Campbell then read a tele- vS tfco L?vr° iacrifice and de- §iam from Governor D. H. Hastinp-s nas floats over*a^uidted ZT the°Twih lhhaV°Wlng t0 hls Presence at be imlhm eh ^ investigration he would ■+U,?*ble to be Present. Another dis- shining folds The rient-r^aS°n upon its dch ?rom Col. Thomas J. Stewart pre -11 Honor to the brave men who con-’ just way. ducted that terrible struggle to a suc¬ The policy of the United States has cessful termination; all honor to that been one of peade. Wars for military brave and loyal, service which saved reputation and aggrandizement of land the American republic from dissolution, were justly pronounced foolish by the and pertetuated to a grateful people that framers of our constitution. England Union whose future is bright with hope. and France in their wars have expend¬ That honor which we ascribe to you to¬ ed enough money to have honestly day is the priceless inheritance of your bought every inch of land they now posterity.” possess. But America never made Mr. Painter paid a high but deserved tribute to the noble women of the North peace until the victory was won. The people in America govern and if we who, with heroic loyalty, during the dark days of the national struggle, have war it is because the people wish nursed the sick in the hospitals and in it. In our civil war the army and the thousands of other ways provided com¬ navy were but the tools of the people, j forts to the brave men who were strug¬ and Appomatox was but the crowning gling against the disruption of the of the imperial will of the common peo¬ Union. He concluded by saying: “Our ple of the United States. past is glorious with achievements, our In other nations the people build 1 present bright with promise and we be¬ great monuments to their princes and lieve with the trustful confidence that kings, but no one comes to decorate the future will demonstrate the wisdom their graves with flowers. In our coun¬ of self government, and will realize in try we honor all alike—those who wore its complete development, the full the chevrons and those in the ranks— i. fruition of human hope.” those who swung the sabre with Sher- I When the applause that greeted Mr. idan and the men who held Round 5c Painter’s address had died away, Mr. Knob at Gettysburg. The tribute of a Campbell told of a cavalry captain who grateful people is paid to the preservers ■was once summoned at night by his ad¬ of the country and the Union. jutant to appear at his tent immediate¬ What we want in this country is a ly. The captain responded, fearful better grade of Americanism. The peo- of some unintentional neglect of duty, pie make the government, and we our- 1 and arriving there inquired what was selves are responsible for any bad gov¬ wrong. “Oh, nothing,” said the adju¬ ernment we get, because we bring it tant, “only I wanted a drink and I upon ourselves. It is the duty of every hate to drink alone.” “That captian,” citizen to go to the polls and vote ac¬ continued Mr. Campbell, “now stands cording to the dictates of his conscience, before you—Judge Alfred Darte." as tmuch as it was to support the Union Judge Darte was received with great in 18C1. If there is a wrong in the gov¬ applause and his address justified the ernment go to the polls and do what you enthusiasm that his hearers displayed. think is right, and that is the only way The judge said that the strangest thing to rectify it. We are willing to accept to him to-day was the condition of the any one who comes here from another United States, and there are those to¬ land and tries to build up this country day making laws for us who once tried and make it a higher type of civilization jj to tear down our flag. The American than has ever been reached before. ^ people are amply able to govern them¬ Henry Clay had the right idea. When selves and if any one gets any fun out j his son was chosen an officer in the Mex- • ' of it, why let him get all he can. The ican War, which war Clay opposed, he • Southerners fought satisfactorily, as said: “My country—may she always be you and I, who were there, can testify, right—but my country, right or wrong.” and sometimes a little more than satis¬ To-day we are all engaged in building factorily, but to-day we are all good up our country. At the last Memorial friends and all loyal citizens. But we Day the blue and the gray marched to¬ must talk to the old soldier, and es¬ gether to decorate the graves of the < pecially to those of Pennsylvania. If fallen heroes. The time will come when there is anything I am proud of it is the flag of the Union will float 100 stars, c that I am a Pennsylvanian. This grand and on each natal day of the nation old State sent her best blood into the 100.000,000 voices will proclaim the an- I fray. At Gettysburg and Fredericks¬ them, “Liberty and union, now and for¬ burg the metal of the Pennsylvanians ever. one and inseparable.” 1 was shown, and under the intrepid After music by the band, D. M. Jones leadership of Pennsylvanians the sol¬ of Wilkes-^Barre was Introduced and re¬ diers of the Keystone State held their cited his well known poem, “The sol¬ own on those bloody fields. dier’s last good bye,” which was re¬ Tfie famous charge of the Union ceived with great enthusiasm- After forces at Fredericksburg resembled the poem chairman Campbell intro¬ Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg in its duced Capt. De Lacy of Scranton, who stupidity, only it was six times more invited the entire assemblage to the re¬ so, because our men went up six times union of the 143d, Pennsylvania Volun- j and Pickett only went up once. teers. Capt. De Lacy then gave a brief Pennsylvania sent the first troops in¬ sketch of the Seven County Veteran Re¬ to Washington., It was given to Penn¬ union Association, which proved very sylvania to open the infantry fight at interesting to the audience. At the Gettysburg and Col. Laycock of Lu¬ origin of the organization there were zerne County commanded. Pennsyl¬ only five counties expected, and the oth¬ vania furnished Meade, Reynolds|and ers were afterwards admitted. Capt. Hancock, the heroes of the greatest De Lacy then went on with some in¬ battle since Waterloo, and Gregg, the teresting war reminiscences, and said intrepid cavalry leader. In Pennsyl¬ that these reunions simply occasion the | vania regiments seniority wa^ the or¬ same feelings that every soldier expert- j der of promotion and it was the only enced after a battle. - pviHW"' I .JVhe,n,;the last bu?le call sounfla ttfl I old soldiers will still serve a patriotic this is the Memorial Day of a Mooay service, for they will perpetuate patri¬ . conflict in which many gallant men fell, otism in this country forever. P no eulogium of their bravery or heroic wSPp^ifr Campbell tben introduced J. 'vill be pronounced by me. For . Hall -of Honesdale, who recited a or them this monument speaks more poem descriptive of Keenan'? treat eloquently than any words. An -at- chaige on Stonewall Jackson’s force at tempt will be made in this paper to Chancellorsville, after which Gen Os¬ Dnefly describe the method of govern¬ borne addressed the audience. The gen¬ ment prevailing in the second colony eral said he was present and during the years 1772 and 1773. In'this witnessed Keenan’s valorous charge i description facts will be mentioned that that saved the Union forces from total I reveal the intelligent and the indepen- destruction at Chancellorsville. The re¬ 1 ?£ character of the early inhabitants sult of the charge was the saving of the of the valley. , wo^f atbat afterwards did such nobll In 1768 the Susquehanna Company, work at Gettysburg and Appomattox convened at Hartford, Connecticut, to and saved the Union. With Annomat take action concerning Wyoming, had tox-came the results for which the N™rth esolved, ‘‘That five townships, five had been fighting, and since then we miles square should be surveyed and have recovered from all the terrible ef¬ granted, each to forty settlers being pro- fects of the war and live again o ! T£let?nS’ on condition that those settlers stronger, happier and more prosperous ■' should remain upon the ground, man nation than ever before. Ijcm rights, and defend themselves “At the coming election,” said they and each other from the intrusion of all speaker, “we will show that the Ameri¬ rival claimants.” In pursuance of this can people are still supreme, and aYter resolution, the first forty set out and II eIection there shall be no man who arrived in February, 1769, only to find snail come forward and preach a doc¬ the valley in possession of the Penna- trine that shall lose for America what mites, who had entered after the de¬ the soldiers of the Union have gained parture of the first colony. Then fol¬ for her. Then let us hope for a great and giorious country and the dawning lowed the Yankee and Pennamite War ot that period when we shall have lib- resulting in the withdrawal of the Penn- amites m August, 1771. erty and patriotism to keep the fiag ■where it belongs, above that of every : „ Pennsylvania authorities, cha¬ other nation. We must be as true and grined at the success of the Yankees patriotic now as in the days of the war, wrote a letter to the Governor of Con- tor it is only eternal valor and devotion i-ecticut, asking by whose authority to a country and a Country’s cause that t iese hostile and violent measures” of c-rings our land where It is—to the very e late conflict had been prosecuted. of ab nations. I believe in the ®0y1rn0r1,TrUmbu11 of Connecticut, in •faith and the honor of the American °^rSuer’ 17a’ rePbecI as follows: j people and I hope that the honor and „ bhe P(trsons concerned in these tran- the glory that have been given to this sactwns have no order and direction people may ever live. May you all be bW nf °r fA0m the General Assem¬ remembered by what you have done in bly of Connecticut for their proceedings the past. ” on this occasion, and I am very su?e At the conclusion of Gen. Osborne’s thev hav <^enerf1 AssemblY friends as address a vote of thanks was tendered they have been to peace and good order ^officers of the day, and the meet- will never countenance any violent ing adjourned. The band then went to m hostiIe measures in vindica- rllI? “a:i.n Pavilion and dancing was in¬ ofrthe rights which the Susque- dulged in unti lthe last train left at 7 fan1a Company suppose they have to ,3? copclu<3ed the festivites of a the lands m that part of the country within the limits of this colony.” y K„e%oyable day' The veterans left ! ^ homes. 6 outgoin& trains for their . r? 1S Aasy to see from this equivocal LLt®r;tbat Connecticut, while claiming : VnstifT lan?s’ „was not Prepared to i justify and defend the actions of the PHor* t Se“ling by virtue of that title. /mites,mftes min 1771,l77^e ttheret,XPUl fnadioY beenof the no Pennestab-a- From, ^ hshed government in Wyoming Valley. In war, military law prevailed In Person was le« to the dic¬ tates of his own conscience and the fctmaTne °f u?as?n t0 control his con- Tbe cultivating influence of wo- men was wanting, there being but few white .women in the valley. But with I *be Cl0se of the Yankee and Pennamite (War new settlers began to appear Population increased and the colonists (began to think about introducingS form of government. S EARLY WYOMING HISTORY. I With this object in view the settlers (Petitioned the Assembly of Conecticut first Attempts at Self Government— I to take them under its protection until th^Ktag^forU,011111 bS Promulgated by 1772-1773. tne .King for the government of this hew rAt Wyoming Monument, July 3, 1S96, thloRT’ lbat b0(Jy being unwilling, at oy Ralph H. Wadhams. this time, to extend its jurisdiction "over We are assembled here in honor of the a section of country so far from home settlers of Wyoming Valley. Although and restrained by the remonstrances of Pennsylvania, already mentioned re- j phed, advising the colonists as follows: 88 V -

1st. To make an amifcable adjustment I adversity. They were a fearless anJT'e- of their difficulties with the proprietors j lentless enemy to those who attacked of Pennsylvania, which adjustment Con- them. Slow to. anger and tardy to put !! necticut would undertake to negotiate. I on the habiliments of war, once these 2nd. In case of failure in this to re- | were assumed, they were equally slow fer the whole matter to the King in I to lay them aside. Such a mixture of Council. the fear of God and boldness towards 3rd. In the meantime to govern them¬ men has seldom been seen in history. selves as best they could. This character our ancestors brought The first recommendation was not fol¬ with them to this valley. The old Puri¬ lowed by the colonists, probably be¬ tanical faith, free, however, from its cause an attempt to make an amicable ij early bigotry, was kept alive by minis¬ adjustment with the Pennsylvania au¬ ters of the gospel who were supported thorities would have been unavailing at the public expense in the settlement. immediately after the expulsion of the Another trait of character was their Pennamites from the valley. In fact, desire for education. They were effi¬ the efforts of Connecticut in this di¬ cient promoters of schools. As with the rection were fruitless. It was also im¬ Pilgrim Fathers, so with the members of practicable to refer the matter to the the second colony—the church was hard¬ King with any hope of the creation of a ly completed when the school house was new colony, because the strained re¬ begun. The school teacher occupied a lations between the King and the Ameri¬ position of honor second only to that ' can colonies compelled his attention to of the minister of the gospel. The j the successful management of those al¬ spelling bee, debates in literary societies ready in existence rather than to the founded at an early day, and the best [ making of new ones. In this dilemma colleges of the land, which a respectable M the settlers were obliged to accept the number of the colonists had attended, ' third proposition and govern them¬ developed intelligent men, who were weil [ selves. The Wyoming settlers, thus re¬ qualified to partake of the stirring | jected by Connecticut and unwilling to events which were to arouse the land. F be ruled by Pennsylvania, were thrown Another element of character was in- t upon their own resources. Neither the dustry. The explorers of southern lands j- Assembly of Connecticut nor the Sus¬ were beguiled by dreams of unlimited j quehanna Company assumed an official wealth to be found in the goldid and sil- 1f governmental relation toward the i ver of the new world. But the New !“ colony until the summer of 1773. Not¬ England settlers knew of no x_riches ex- . withstanding the conclusion of some! cexfi. those developed by, .untiringtiring in-4 •writers that no established discipline dustry in the fertility of the soil. ~Th¥ existed in the valley prior to June, 1773, pioneers of this valley, on the frontier or January, 1774, we shall see that the of an unsettled country, exhibited this settlers, thus abandoned by Connecticut, industry to a marvelous degree. They which in the words of Governor Hoyt were a hardy and thrifty people. Un¬ “had never really done anything for der their management homes were con¬ them,” met this crisis with courage structed, mills were erected, roads and and fortitude and proceeded to govern ferries were built, for the accommoda¬ themselves. tion of travelers, and fields of grain re¬ There is no more critical test of the placed the primeval forests#' stability of a people than the first at¬ This character, then, made up as it tempt to fulfill the duty of self-govern¬ was of religion, independence, intelli¬ ment. Yet this duty was performed, by gence and industry, made the settlers the Wyoming settlers in a manner that capable of ruling themselves. And al¬ ! reflects credit upon their intelligence though their government was peculiar, and ability. The reason these pioneers and compared with our complex politi¬ were enabled to create out of the wil- I cal organism of to-day, even crude, it derness a colony and establish therein a was a government of the people, more government that in two years brought a purely democratic in its. nature than prosperity to the settlement, command¬ that of the Grecian or Roman States in ing the respect of two great States, is their highest developments of Republi¬ found in their character. This charac¬ canism. ter, which in my opinion was more It is commonly conceded that much of I •; plainly exhibited at this than at any the business relating to the affairs of other time in their history, is worthy of the colony was transacted at town meet- fj analysis. ings. Here many resolutions were B It was essentially religious. The passed that would be honorable to the H stern, uncompromising desire for re¬ highest civilization. At one of these ligious freedom that dominated the meetings, in Wilkes-Barre, December p' minds of the Puritans also helped to 11th, 1772, over which Stephen Fuller f mould the character of the Wyoming was appointed moderator, it was voted 1 * settlers. The Pilgrim Fathers came to ! • “To^give and grant, unto Jacob Johnson, | I New England with the purpose of wor¬ his heirs and assigns forever, in case "he! shiping God according to the dictates ! settle in this town as a gospeleosnel minister,mlnister- |L of their own consciences. Their re¬ fifty acres of land.” At another In ; > ligious zeal made them of a peculiar i August, 1773, it was agreed that the Rev. j I temperament. While in their worship | Jacob Johnson be paid a salary of sixty I.v they held themselves of no account in .. pounds, to be increased as the revenue M the sight of God, having devoted them- ‘ from taxes warranted, until it amounts i>WW selves to the service of the Almighty to one hundred pounds a year.” It was " ■ *^1 '• they could not persuade themselves to also voted “To raise three pence on the bow the knee to any human potentate. pound on the district list to keep free They feared no foe, but living under *n the Several school districts in the law of nature, which is the law of Wilkes-Barre.” The other towns in the ! God, they stood as firm and unyielding valley were also interested in education. as the sturdy oak against the storms of -A*- a- 1 ovm niceting in Kingston Decern- «ieecr: a* the “Statute Book.” Any pro- mins and Tn?f JT?aon- Samuel Com- portion •- receiving a majority vote TommtnrA^- Pfrkms be appointed a became a law of binding obliga¬ n?\tZolint%t?ree tion upon the whole colony. An Ix- probable that similar provisions for the ecutive committee, comprising one per- son from each township, constituted the ss5nKu^poTt °f free ^oois1 wg C^mittee of Settlers” which was settlement1 ™ towns thr°ug-hout the nethf m- These proceedings may be authorized to decide matters of minor nothing more than ordinances controll- importance and call a “Meeting ™The aRhmith dlstrlct or a municipality, Proprietors” whenever it became neces- of' a efehr^n °ne r?latin£ to the support would hpgiT»man tlie pul>lic expense I m^ie+hiVe m®asures were adopted to the .requirements of a newly set¬ laid tobwn“angeVen ln a NeW Eng’ tled district. Townships were laid out labnt tiie+?tatem®nt that all laws re- ' fiMtfnn«ere levied and collected, forti- fications were erected and a militia es- s?t “tnJn the +settlement were enacted tabhshed for the defense of the settle- mitteir-’ if !e ngSi or by “town com¬ atf ir somewhat misleading. For ment. Unworthy acts were punished bv at a meeting held May 22nd 1772 five expulsion from the colony, while public resolut^3 relating tQ Jepa™te and dis- devotion met its fitting reward in t ie conferring of citizenship CMian! I fobows:WRS Wei'e passed‘ They were as . T\a courts were instituted and a 1st. “That Rosewell Franklin have | constable was appointed to execute the I laws in each township. execute the I drawn by I ,. "Pbe Judicial authority was vested in rilht’in ?Jlat Ja™es BUdack have that three courts, two of which, as nearly as Drake!” Plymouth (lrawn by Nathaniel I can ascertain, were identical wlfw?" ‘Committee of Settlers” and th^MeeT . That M. McDowell be voted in- mg of Proprietors.” The lowest t04ftbe fp£ty town,” (Kingston ) consisted of “Three Freeholders^ “3? , * -L n.c&t for special services d on o established in each town shit \ 7hlch ginal jurisdiction of III civi Tnd or SiVcrCX® Dye?™ed inal matters and made a return of t to the fort?% n lyer’ ShaU have a ri§'ht' award to the “Committee of Settles ” firsfday of “ “ by ““ This last named court could enter judg¬ ment and issue execution nn +>,„ Jua»- theijv 3iat the ^?hts that are sold in of the “Three M correct that award. The tribunal £ ird last resort was the “Meeting Q? the Proprietors,” where the decisionsof the I wSfpiS iJL°ne meetin^ resolutions Sf s§”* This division of the judicial continued for nearly two yiars TheT tetens some modifications were made ’ -tT changes and the manner of making hem estabiishes^ the conclusion S during the years 1772 and 177o t aad, having authority over th? ernmental power resided with" and'wJ' exercised by, the colonisS^themTelveT ings, Viome‘ex= » new .tote^tc* Ported magistrates were selected and the highest judicial authority was trarT ~\sr,rc£ ferred from the “Meeting of the Pro' ; assS-S? prietors to a “Board of Directors” sisting of three persons from eTch town-' to d‘ ^0Cal Boards of Directors were to decide cases arising in the several townships of Wilkes-Barre, Kingston Piymouth,West Providence.Pittston and necticut and y’ i1ndependent °f Con- and Hanover, and once every three months these local boards were to coT! bme m a quarterly meeting-” to hear boardT °m thS decisions of the lower Although no authority has exnioinn* the significance of, or even men both of these meetings, the one at HarT SrleT0 by T5* c "Ain'S1'w«« ford, the other at Wilkes-Barre it seems B^~la£g ■liwi .selected at reasonable to infer that the Susoim- hanna Company suggested, after which the settlers adopted, and by their adop- 1-; ■ “ > tion made operative, alterations and im- Ij provements in a method of government j A STORY OF WYOMING. already instituted, organized and con- j ; tested by themselves. Otherwise the “Meeting of the Proprietors” of July 8th, ! A Bit of Local History in 1776—Old 1773, would have been but an idle form— a luxury in which the-early settlers did j: not indulge; This contention gains Revolutionary Times. force from the fact that the Susque- I hanna Company, although supported by TRIALS OF THE FIRST SETTLERS public opinion in Connecticut, never had conferred upon it the power of making laws. It exercised the functions of a A Tale of Eealy Wyalusing and the Sus¬ land office rather than those of a legis- t lature or a court. The “Original Com- j quehanna Valley. pact” was adopted by the settlers be- [ fore it became binding upon them as Since the world began there lias been a law, and while by the concurrence of a disposition among men to “go west, j the “Meeting of the Proprietors” the To be sure Cain journeyed to the east¬ final appellate jurisdiction over suits in- ' ward; but the fact, perhaps, only serves I volving the title of land was awarded to illustrate his natural perversity. When to the Company, the absolute and final j decision upon all questions affecting the • therefore, a certain Mr. York, of Con¬ enjoyment of health, reputation, liberty necticut, put his family and household and life was to be rendered by the set¬ goods into a great wagon and directed L tlers themselves, as represented in their his oxen toward the wilderness of Ien-Jj “Board of Directors.” In other words nsvlvania, he was following a natural / the colonists were to exercise full power i law. This was more than a hundred years in that class of cases which men have ago, and the Susquehanna at that time always considered the most important in their efforts to promote liberty and I formed the extreme limit of civilization. good government. This regime con¬ The far west was something more for¬ tinued until the Assembly of Connecti- 1 midable then than at present, when the cut, in January, 1771, made Wyoming facilities of travel make us feel scarcely Valley a part of Litchfield county and parted from our friends on the Pacific. admitted representatives from the. I But at that tune it meant a long and dan- colony to Its number. jofc rus journey—visiting impracticable, I have attempted to briefly review the history of the second colony during the ; and Communication by letter slow , un¬ years 1772 and 1773. Although it is im¬ certain and expensive. i possible to describe the method of gov¬ The emigrant wagon rolled slowly on ernment then existing, with absolute j toward the Hudson then to the Delaware correctness, the available information From Coshetunk (Cochecton) an old j explains the character of the early set- t Indian path leads directly to Wyoming tiers as manifested not in the stern con- j on the Susquehanna. This old path had flicts of war, but in the nobler attain¬ ments of peace. They were a sturdy been followed by the earliest settlers and and independent band of men. When could still be called little else than a by the logic of events the duty of self- path. The traveller often found the ax government was thrust upon them, it | necessary to the progress of his journey. was performed in a manner honorable Arriving" at Wyoming there was a nour¬ to themselves and adequate to the needs ishing settlement and there Mr. Aork of the settlement. While Pennsylvania j put his family into a canoe and pushed was watching Wyoming Valley with ! a jealous eye and Connecticut was J up the river some sixty miles to wyalu- strengthening her title with the fa- | sing, where his possession lay. Here, on vorable opinions of eminent Eng- i one of the clearings, he built his cabin. lish lawyers, the pioneers of this Neighbors were few; when the house valley, by their own unaided ef¬ was built they came from twenty miles t forts, were creating a prosperous colony. around to assist in rolling logs. Just he- * The honor of this achievement should low, the Moravian missionaries had form¬ be awarded to the settlers themselves. ed a settlement tor the instruction of From the intelligence and independence I of men of kindred character, in all parts ! the Indians. These converted red men of this broad land of America, grew the 1 had lived in well built houses, there were possibility of our great Republic._ i schools, and a chapel with a bell, But the Indians had removed to the Ohio L- i , -; ; \ some years before, and the mission was g broken up; beta few individuals temain- ed, these friendly and with civilized habits. . , . , 1 The York family consisted of two (■ ; From ,../5 young women. Wealthy and Keziah, Sal¬ ly a rosy' cheeked girl of twelve; Miner, the only hoy; and two little girls, Berin- tha and Hannah. There was no school [ the older girls t might the younger ones; all had their employments. The mother [ and daughters spun and wove the c otli for their garments; the younger children 91

S'lliSnlVat h-e was'001,1(1 taTeKtrro^' try, than to live longer'aim aie a rury fiii fi f the river and be rewarded bv a fish that would furnish the whole Aim- Por some reason they let the old mar* i y with a dinner. The woods were till- go, carrying with them his companions. Mr. Fitzgerald placed his goods and fam¬ / ily in a canoe and at once sought the ful lffe 11 a free l'aPpy and peace- lowest settlements. Still the Yorks staid on. But the first rumblings of the Revolu- 11 was now February and a heavy snow Ikpr wni Wai Dieg',n’ Lexi“stonand Bun- was falling. A log burned in the York The nSeiH r ,nl-ls thro,lgh the colonies, lhe frontier felt it. No people showed replace, and the family, sitting before more.merest than those of'the border it safe from the storm, forgot their fears settlements; none were more loyal; and • e stock was fed and sheltered in the none had greater cause to tremble, snug _og cabin barn, or beneath the warm j What part would the Indians take in stacks. The fire-light filled the entire room where the mother sat at the small !fMrfm?te8t?. T,liirS was the Question of Ifeaiful import. Many causes combined w’heel, distaff in hand, and the six- months baby-boy on a wolfskin at her i-iii.(to send them' tot the sideoiuc ofui methe British: j-l.ie power of the latter, as-proved in the teet. The older girls were knitting; the recent war with the French; grudges father shelling corn, and at the same time against the settlers; and the active, flat- prompting the little girls engaged upon a spelling-book. Miner lay at full length !£en1)7 «* ro7»lis,s 10 his eyes fastened intently upon a news¬ _^ ^be Indians continued professions paper spread out upon the hearth—a of fuend.ship; begged for council-fires and newspaper of the same age as the baby. long talks whereby they might plav Steps are heard outside, and all are Uiespy ami secure the presents thev startled. The little girls drew close to 'nvariably looked for. the mother s side, and the eyes of Mr. But a few miles above the Yorks was York involuntarily glance toward his lioga Point, which (he Six Nations call- 1 gun against the chimney-piece. The ed the door of their -‘long houses,” The latch-string had been drawn in, and the Mohawks guarded the eastern door, the visitor must therefore knock for admit¬ Senecas the western and the Cayugas the tance. southern, opening upon the Susquehan- j “Who is there?” demanded Mr. York na. lioga Point was important bv its going forward. si nation, and early became a resort of j Caesar,’ answered a mild voice. lories in their designs of Indian assist- At this all laughed and the door was arn.e. d liese Tories became the bitterest quickly opened. Caesar walked in, a tall thlSwitheir°^Id neighbors who espoused I lank, young negro, with eyes and teeth’ the Whig cause. that showed to the best advantage. Mr York s Wing principles made his A seat was given the new comer and suuat.on critical. Already the Indians lie was made welcome. Caesar, who began to show hostility, making incur- lived at the old mission town just below sioiiMiito tne settlements, and one often bad been employed a few times by Mr.’ neaid of skirmishes, between them and York and had eaten at the family table the scouting parties sent up from Wvo- raing. J yet the little ones were still awed at the sight of the black man. f^DithffaU °f 1777 the ^iety of the It was thought that the visitor would family became so great that the father make known some errand, but he rose “afce.a.tnp to Wyoming to seek advice, 4Ldff^itY|it'ter an hour’s stay without or assistance if necessary. It was judged paying Rone so. He I,acr" answerer, that tnere would be no great danger from •CJ,Urmgibe Wlnter> and that they could with prudence remain where they weie. The industrious pioneer had, in a ffni S n°rt ye3rs’ made himself a home !ittb a11 fomforts; he had horses, ed, and the nexf-Ml wUh^ 8 repeat' catde and all kinds of stock, grain in [apparently; thouMi Ontario way was to join the Tories. In war 1 —the sad and painful journey made by times birds of a feather must flock to¬ so many poor captives during the war. gether. He made no complaints, however; lie Mr. York followed this young man in¬ had time only for words of advice and to the house. He said nothing, but seat¬ cheer; he could, perhaps, get exchanged ing himself on the bed in the corner before many months and be with them drew his hat over his eyes. Sally has¬ again. tened after him, saying gently: While the mother read the letter to “Father, what is the matter? He was f. her weeping children, and the Tory silent, but she saw that tears were flow¬ warmed himself at her fire, tne sound ing down his cheeks. of voices was heard outside. Secord Meanwhile her mother had said to the jumped quickly from the block of wood young man. on which he was sitting, and ran to the “How do you d.. Tom ?” window. “Mrs. York,” said he, "I am sorry to 1 “Where shall I hide myself?” he cried see you. in terror to Mrs. York. “Save me; save “Have you taken mv husband pi iso- K me! ner?” 1 “Here,” cried Mrs York, going to a “A6k Tom Green,” returned Terry, B corner of the room where there was a with a look toward his companion. Is heap of bedding. Secord sank upon “Tom Green have you taken mv hus¬ the floor and the bedding was hastily band prisoner?” thrown over him. “Yes, Mrs. York, we have. But hel Meanwhile Ihe children had discov¬ shan’t be hurt. We only wanted himi ered that it was Captian Buck approach¬ to swear allegiance to King George.” ing with several companions. Miner All the arguments of which a wifeBK rushed out of the door and was about and mother is capable were thou; to proclaim that a letter had come from brought to bear upon these Tories as father, and John Secord had brought it they sat at the fireside of their old; (if indeed he had not added that the friends. Fierce dark faces glanced now [1 same Secord was lying in the corner and^then throug > the windows. under a heap of bedding), when his mother stepped out, sent him back vviih- • % | amr-mr- 95

in doors, and advanced to meet, me party. post. At such town meeting immediately alter the post rider brought news of the ‘•Tam glad to see you,” said she “and DiittiG of Bunker Hill, it was voted.* truly thankful. But as we have no beds and little to eat, I cannot ask von in. “That this town will strictly observe The only man in the settlement lives arid follow ye rules ami regulations of ve there across the river. He will give Honorable Continental Congress, now ; sitting at Philadelphia.” you lodging, and in the morning I will be readv to go with you.” 1 But a few years had elapsed since the So saying she returned to the house, fust settlers had cut their wav through, while the men set out for the river, and now the beautiful valley blossomed crossing upon the ice. as a rose. Commodious log houses and barns; rich meadows; bountiful harvests; “You can get up now, Secord,” said Mrs. York. sleek herds, were every where to be seen Secord arose, brushing oft' the straw I here were schools, and a church with a and feathers. settled pastor—one who could go into a “You have saved me,” said he, com- pn pit with a bible and a loaded musket and do good execution with both I ing forward, "and I will save you.” In j | a low voice h.e then confessed that he In ibe summer of ’76 Congress had or- j had been sent as a spy to see if any fried that, two companies be raised in armed men were in the place. A large the (own of Westmoreland, and station- j party of Indians and white men, under ed m proper places for the defence of the the command of his own son, were near cent' ” Tl’-S °f town anr! Posts ad jar I ! at hand, and it had been the intention c mt. tins was immediately carried into ! to take the whole family prisoners. effect; and with two full companies of “And now if you will give me a bite able bodied men, Wyoming felt secure. of something to eat,” said he, “I will pressed He LWan ’-‘ngt(Vn became sorelv j trouble you no more.” pressed. He was driven from Yew York The desired bite was given and he bv General Howe, and his army much bade them good night. reduced, retreated through New Jersey The evening was spent in preparations to the western branch of the Delawar/ for the journey. Provisions were pre- His army numbered less than 3.000 men jJ pared, and a bundle of clothing and badly clothed, badlv provided for in -ill ' I other necessaries made for the back of ways and much dispirited Com'ress 1 each. Captian Buck came over early n ln°,i0rnger remain at Philadelphia I next morning and they all set out for but decided on removal to Baltimore’ ■j Wyoming, traveling ten miles that day Among other measures of relief it was ! through the snow, oyer fallen trees and p,fiS° TjCt ,hat tlle two companies rais¬ slippery nrecmicfs At night they ed ,n Westmoreland be ordered to join 1 reached a place palled Vandernppe’s, General Washington, with all possible where Mr. Fitzgerald and some other expedition The two companies under families were living. Here the younger Captains Dnrkee aud Ransom, at once children were left, the mother and two older girls traveling to Wyoming.c Of Washington recrossed the Delaware course the baby went, with mother. t'he Brif hM anCanada they had formed Joh nson>« Tiol- Forty Fort was situated on the west, ,al Greens and Butler’s Rangers with side of the river, just above the village or Kingston. Opposite Kingston was Wilkes (35,tSS|,he)' <» jBarre, a thriving settlement, having a .fort of its own. All—for fifty miles to the eastward, and north to Tioga Point,, one was employed in cooking for the carri hundred miles—comprised the town of son of the fort. The garrison consisted Westmoreland. Town-meeting therefore <> .such men as could be mustered— would take men a long way from home. chiefly old men and boys. They were J For a town meeting ’ legally warned,” as bui.dmg new forts and strengthening *> die phrase was, the notice would be put the old ones. All lent a helping E upon some tree chosen as the legal sign l ne boys could dri ve oxen and help roll ' T 92

j logs. A tort or stockade was usually oT under Captain Spaulding; and late. vcr\ ; pi Tie logs set upright; at. the four corners late, they got leave to march toward Wy¬ there were sometimes square towers. oming. H All around a ditch was dug. the dirt he¬ It was the last of June, 177S. At Tioga wing thrown against the timbers. There Point, the door of the “long-house,1’ I was strong barred gates, and ranges oi l there was a stirring scene. The canoes huts against the walls within. A well: had been built and launched. There was desirable, and if one had a cannon, were the Rangers in their green uniforms so much the better. In all the valley with cap aud feather, the savages in their there was but-one and that having no j warpaint and other decorations. Queen balls, could only be used as an alarm) Esther, of the Seneca Tribe, whose castle gun. 1 stood on a beautiful plain at the Point, The women worked in the fields; they } was going with them. She had become also made the saltpeter that went to the i incensed at the refusal of the authorities manufacture of gunpowder. The floor in Wilkes-Barre to surrender some priso¬ of a cabin would be taken up and the ners whose release she had personally re¬ earth dug out beneath. This peculiar quested. “I will bring you more In¬ earth was bleached by pouring water dians,” she told them, threateningly. Hi rough it; the lye of wood ashes was The valley had resounded with their wa- mixed with this earth water. The liq¬ songs; the camp fires had lighted up their uor was boiled, and being set to cool the hideous dances; they had eaten the roast¬ saltpeter rose to the. surface; this skitri- ed dog flesh, an offering to some heathen Imedoffand mixed with charcoal and god of wTar. To the Indians it was all a sulphur furnished their hope of defence. gay holiday excursion. The sighs of danger grew darker. The The fleet set out upon the winding riv. scouts coming in from their trips, report¬ er. Iu all there were about one thous¬ ed savages drawing nearer every day. The and men. By frowning precipices, fair few friendly Indians, who had lived in the islands, smiling meadows, they passed; settlement, had silently withdrawn. One by deserted cabins and little fields of rip of the men who had removed the Yorks ening grain. Far away on every hand from W\effusing, was killed by a party of stretched the primeval forest. Indians in the upper part of the valley. On approaching Wyoming they landed, and the maim body nassed behind a a And one day there came into the fort a ' tain wnere tnev remained concealed. A broad chested, handsome young man small detachment continuing down the whom all greet d with delight. This was river, surprised a party of settlers who John Jenkins, just returned from a captiv¬ had come up from one of the forts for ity of several months. He related the the purpose of hoeing their corn. One story of his capture and escape It seems boy only escaped; he concealed himself that he had been sent to Albany under an iu the willows that overhung the bank, Indian scout to be exchanged for a dis¬ lying in the liver, with mouth scarcely tinguished chief who was a prisoner in above the water, while the savages were that city. His escort proved extremeiv liuntiug for him. He fled to the fort; savage and he would doubtless have per aud the alarm-guu was heard throughout ished but for the kind offices of one young the valley, while men at work in the Indi n who had taken a fancy to him. fields threw down their implements and When they reached Albany it was fo nd hastened to prepare for battle. that the chief ha'} died of smallpox, and This was the last day of June. the enraged savages insisted upon re¬ Col. Zebulou Butler, a prominent man taining Jenkins, This, however, was not of Wyomi g, who had gone in the army allowed, and he fouud his way home to at the head of a Connecticut regiment, his friends and his young wife. was now at home on a furlough. Col The story with all its details the chil-| Butler had seen service in the old French dreu found very entertaining; but they! war, having been at the taking of Ticon- did not know what the young man said deroga aud Crown Point. He was now aside to the officers of the fort. “Hold placed in command of all the forces of vourself in readiness; an attack is certain. Wyoming. Col. Denison, another man Flight is impossible. We must defeud of sterling qualities, was second. ourselves as best we can ” Iu the upper part of the valley there Repeatedly Congress had been asked were two forts, both on the western side to return the two companies. Instead of of the river. One of them, fiuely situ¬ dcuug so. orders were sent on that anoth¬ ated, had beeu buiit by a family named er company of militia be formed for the Wiutermoot, at their own expense. The protection of the valley. But where was settlers had distrusted the loyalty of this the material? It was scanty. Boys and 'family, yet a number, in their defence¬ old men began drilling. People of the less state, had sought refuge here. On remote farms sought the forts. Women the day a'ter the attack upon the party sent appeals to their husbands and sons in the confields, two of the Wiulermoots iu the arrnv that they should come to left the fort for the purpose, as they said, ? their defence. At last many of 'he sol¬ of recounoitering. At evening they re- ( diers left without leave, and almost every turned, and the gate being open, they j officer of the Wyoming companies re¬ led in British Butler and all his forces. ! signed and hastened home. Those re¬ Thus were all the innocent people with-1’ maining were formed into one company iu taken prisoners. Another fort above | 'MBT ”w" 95

they had yielded themselves priso >ers. it (also capitulated. was a scene too terrible for description. There was consternation at Fortv-Fort. There was nothing to impede the march j The old queen was foremost in the mas¬ of the enemy, unless, indeed a hastily sacre, killing many prisoners with her gathered company of some three hun-! own hands. Anxiously those at the fort fired settlers could successfully oppose a had listened and waited. They had heard thousand disciplined troops and savages. J the quick and steady firing, then the ir- . O, the terror of the children, the despair j regular, broken shots ever drawing near¬ of the women, the desperate courage of I er; they knew the signs of retreat and all the men! hope died within them. At evening the They held a council of war. Should fugitives came, wounded and bleeding; they march out at once to meet the cue- ! there was mourning for those who had my^or wait for them to come, rob, burn, j fallen, and they were many. and murder? Some advised delay, among ; A night of terrible suspense followed. whom were Cols. Butler and Denison; In the morning they saw advancing out j I but the majority voted for immediate ac¬ of the pine forest two men with a flag of tion. So the little army was mustered truce. Mrs. York, sitting in the midst of before the fort—an army of all ages—a her children, took counsel of her own pathetic sight. There was the age stout heart; her eldest daughter was weep grandfather, and there was the flaxen- j ing near; Capt. Buck was slain; Willy, the } haired boy. Capt. Buck, the son-in-law | flaxen-hair boy, had been savagely toraa- | of Mrs. York, bade good-bye to his young r hawked, and now she sees outside in con¬ wife and baby daughter; his nephew, j sultation with the colonel the very man Willy* a boy of fourteen, marched by his j who had taken her husband prisoner, now side. Young Miner lamented his own holding a lieutenant’s commission in the i j youth and stature. A few old men and rangers. He brought written terms of I disabled scouts were left on guard. agreement, to which he added the assur- j So they marched away, and the prayers ance that a refusal to comply would bring of the women went with them. ihem all under the tomahawk, but a vol- j Scarcely had they disappeared when antary surrender would insure their entire | several horsemen were seen galloping up safety. He then departed. from the ferry. Their horses were coyer- Mrs. York arose. Col. Denison, said ed with foam, and, as they came near, it she, “that is the man who made my chil¬ was found that they were several officers dren fatherless; have no confidence in his j from Captain Spalding’s expected com¬ promises, and if he is coming in I will go pany. They had ridden all night with¬ out.” out rest or food. Capt Spalding was on - “You must not go out,” replied he. the way. After but a slig-it refreshment j The mother gathered her children and ithey rushed on to join the fray. marched to the gate and demanded exit. The wav lay along a pine covered ridge The sentry presented the bayonet ,to her leading to Wiutermoot’s. As our men breast “Shall I allow her to pass,” said advanced they saw that tort to be on fire. he. ,‘No,” was the answer, and thh bay- It was conjectured that the British were enet pressed against the breast of the res¬ retreating; but they were -ecurely posted olute woman, penetrated her clothing and at the foot of the hill just below the fort. drew blood._ - _. - Our forces now drew up in order of bat¬ will go out with my children or 1 tle. “Men,” said Col Butler, “Yonder will die here at the door,” she said. is the enemy. We come out to fight not “Let them pass,’”said Col. Denison. only for liberty, but for life itself,, and And pass they did, but where? Whither what is dearer—to preserve our homes should they flee? We must^leave them from fire, our women and children Irom to note events at the fort. the tomahawks. Stand firm the first The terms 'being agreed upon’the for¬ shock, and the Indians wi 1 give way. mal surrender of Forty-Fort took place i Every man to his duty ” that afternoon. Col. Z Butler and othei> t was four o’clock in the afternoon. belonging to the continental army had Col. Butler gave the o der to fire, which been warned^that no quarter would be i was obeyed along the whole line. Thus given them, and had thereforeifound safe- firing and advancing they saw the Tories , ty in flight. All others were promised J about to give way; at this moment the life and the peaceable possession of their ; | horde of savages in ambush on the left i property. The military stores were to be rushed forward and attacked our men given up; and those thus capitulating j with great fury. An order for a portion bound themselves not to take up arms j to fall back was misuude stood; the word again during the war. A quantity of “retreat ’ went through the ranks, and whiskey stored in the fort was ordered to ; I this was fatal. All became confusion bedst oyed; for, said the British officer, j ! “Don’t leave me, my children!” cried its effect upon the Indians would render j Col. Butler, riding up and down between them unmanageable. the opposing forces. “Don’t leave me The two gates of the fort were thrown and the victory will be ours!’’ But in open. On came the victors with colors vain. flying, with fife and rattling drum, In It became a panic, a flight; men threw at the north gate, four abreast, came the themselves into the r> ver, pressed by yell¬ Royal Greens; at the south gate marched ing savages; shot, tomahawked even after in their savage allies led by a fierce eyed Seneca. i JTT-'*li ■Tun'"'- 1 yueeu Fstber. herselt at the head of a column now flings her taunts at.Col. Den- child that had seen so many vicissitudes | i ison. gave up his little life and was buried. ‘•Look here,” she said glancing back¬ Capt. Spalding’s company arrived at ward. “I told you I would bring more Wyoming soon after this, and it was | India s. Be silent said Butler who was a ! deemed safe to return. But Mrs. York 1 short fat man, womemshould be seen and ' ; resolved to seek her old home in Con¬ not hear f. necticut and set out on foot, in company The arms in the.' centre were taken with a small party. They traverced the possession of by the Indians. They soon dismal wilderness, as so many others had I gave signs of possessing themselves of done. At the settlements they were anything else that pleased their fancy. treated with the utmost kindness, not¬ Col Denison complained of this These withstanding the innumerable claims for are your Indians said he to Buttler and i charity; the cause of all was dear to all. you must restrain them. When they came to the Hudson river jj I will put a stop to it replied Butler. they found the troops of General Wash- 1 But he soon confessed that he could do ington preparing to embark for the win¬ nothing with them. An Indian impu-j ter quarters in New Jersey. It was told i dently took the hat from the head of Washington that a woman from Wyom¬ Col. Denison then demanded the frock he ing was traveling homeward with eight ' wore, on meeting with refusal he raised chi dren. He sent for Mrs. York and j his tomakawk. In the pocket of this gave her fifty dollars. pack there was a sum of money not much At last the weary journey approached perhaps but comprised the entire military its end They were withiu a mile of the chest. old home. Even now they meet a neigh¬ While engaged in freeing himself from bor who recognizes the mother. the garment the Col. stepped backward to ‘‘Mrs. York,” said he, “have you any 1 where the women were sitting and a young news of your husband? If not, then I girl was shrewd enough to slip the purse must tell you. He is dead.” from the pocket and hide it under her To one who knew the horrors of Indian 'apron. Trunks and boxes were broken captivity these words could be scarcely open and valuable papers strewn under feared—“he is dead.” foot. Beds were ripped open and the Mr. York had been exchanged at New feathers scattered to the winds Flour York and hastened to Connecticut for | , and meal lay ankle deep on the ground. news of his family. No one could tell - Outside, bands of exultant savages ranged him anything. He was about to go in the valley, robbing, burning, and destroy¬ search of them when sickness overcame ing. him. They had come so far to see his The most grotesque sights were to be grave. seen. Queen Esther herself, riding a Peace smiled at last upon the land. stolen horse, wore upon her head half a Miner had grown to be a strong young dozen bonnets, the one within the other, man, and under his care they all returned and all wroug end foremost, as manv to their old home at Wyalusing. They gowns, perhaps, and various trinkets, | found things little changed; there was while in her hand she carried a string of the very log on which the little boy was p? scalps. Butler now gathered up his dis¬ chopping when he saw the Indiaus'com- [ ciplined forces and left the valley, alarm ing with his father. ed, maybe, by the furies he had himself Miner proved a dutiful son and an hon¬ invoked. There was no hope of security, orable man. He became a Christian and the settlers were fleeing in all direc¬ minister. Sally, a long time after, wrote tions. an account of the family adventures, to Some fled down the Susquehanna; oth- ‘ which account we owe many of these ers to the wilderness eastward. On foot, facts. destitute of food, they traversed the gr at swamp, the Pocono mountains. For days whortleberries were their only depend- , ence. At Stroudsburg the fugitives an¬ nounced o Spalding’s company the ter- j rible fact that they were too late When Mrs York and her children left the fort thev passed d >wn the river bank. Opposite Wilkes Barre the saw a women with a boat, and calling' to her she took them in. Then they pushed down stream with might and .ain All dav thev hurried on, and at even¬ ing thev came upon a boa load of wound- [' ed In this party they saw their old ueighbor, Fitzgerald, the hero of the flax- brake; and he was detailed to assist them. They reached the settlement >f Paxton , where they were loudly treated While v •| here the baby boy c‘ Mrs. York—the bklics with a HIS'IORY.^

The First Surgical Instruments Brought to the Valley—Old Coins, From, Pictures, Etc. There is an interesting collection of miscellaneous historical matter over in Dr. Spayd’s drug store, on East Market street, which is attracting considerable at¬ tention. The most noticeable perhaps, is a set of surgical instruments, labeled The first surgical instruments brought to Wyoming Valley. Dr. Soayd says the instruments are at least 125 years old and were brought to the valley by one of its earliest prac¬ titioners. Compared with the instru- | ments of the present day,* they are ; heavy, crude and unwieldy, but I they answered tne purpose of the I time and some good work was done with (lueen Esther and Her Mur¬ ithem. The earliest surgeon to whom possession of the instruments can be derous Heart. i traced is a Dr. Gurton and at his death Jthey passed into the hands of Dr. Faulds, ;of Kingston. Dr. Spayde practiced under The Rock Rescued from Vandalism (Dr. Faulus in the army at St. JLouis and the former spoke of the instruments and toy the Daughters of the Ameri¬ jsaid it was understood that they should be can Revolution and Preserved for handed, down from oldest surgeon to oldest surgeon in Wyoming Val¬ Future Generations—Exercises at ley. Dr. Thomas Miner inherited them from Dr. Faulds and at the Place Where So Many Pio¬ the death of the former they became the neer Patriots Pell. property of his son. Dr. Bow Miner. After the death of Dr. Bow Miner his widow I The tragic scene in the battle and presented them to Dr. Spayde and the iat- 1 massacre of Wyoming, where the In¬ ter exhibits them to-day as the property » dian fury. Queen Esther, with her own of the oldest practitioner in the valley. hands killed a dozen or two prisoners, The instruments would make a valuable was recalled yesterday and the spot so acquisition to the collection of the His¬ marked as to preserve it for all time. torical society and it is likely will even¬ The stone which formed the centre of tually pass into their keeping. the fatal circle in which the prisoners Ir. addition to the instruments is exhi¬ ■ were put to death is in the borough of bited a copy of the Ulster County Gazette, Wyoming, about a quarter of a mile in which, among other advertisements, is from the postoffice. It is enclosed in a one offering for sale “a good, healthy cage on a lot purchased of Amos wench and half a saw mill." The paper Hughes. The lot is irregular in snape, was published in 1800. equivalent to a lot fourteen feet square, Just below tiie paper is a collection of on Susquehanna avenue. Just now it paper money, scrip as it was oailed, and is not located very picturesquely, being other relies, the greater part of which is Overshadowed by a big barn, but the the property of Druggist. Frank P. Crotzer. future will doubtless remedy that. The Tiie paper money is of various denomina¬ lot is surrounded by a. neat :run fence, tions, there being scrip of 8, 5, 10, 15, 25 j The rock is about six feet long, flat¬ cents and bills of all denominations and tened in form, and rudely resembling dates back as far as 1776. The coins are of the rarest kind and represent the col¬ Iia outline an Indian moccasin. It pro¬ lection of many years. jects above the ground about a foot Another interesting object is a note and has suffered much at the hand of from President Lincoln to the secretary of the relic hunting vandals. The Daugh¬ war. and is dated 1862. It reads: “Please ters have undertaken to preserve it see Cap’t Crotze,” and is signed A. from further injury and have had it I Lincoln. The Captain Crotze referred to (enclosed in a steel cage. On this cage was the uncle of the druggist, Frank P., i is a tablet of bronze thus inscribed: TTOW* wftit^iHv opnyur AuC&sitii' aiiultief Upon this rock curiosity is the piece of a tree trunk, in The Indian Queen Esther which is seen the bullet imbedded. It Slaughtered the Brave Patriots. was taken from Cold Harbor and is a silent ! Taken in the Battle of July 3, 1(78. evidence of the great struggle of that Preserved by the Lime. Wyoming Valley Chapter There are many other things, among of the them photographs taken in 1820. all of whieh go to make the collection in¬ teresting and val uable. ghters of the American Revolution 1895. of Tioga County, New York, seeing one The exercises were conducted beneath after another perish by her bloody a spreading oak. The officers and in¬ hand, broke through the circle, out¬ vited guests occupied a platform and stripped his pursuers and escaped. seated around were the Daughters of '‘In 1845 Col. Ransom was aged 82 the American Revolution and members and was in trie enjoyment of tolerable of the patriotic societies, the Wyoming health. He states in his interview Historical Society and the Wyoming with Mr. Miner that it was impossible to Commemorative Association. gather and bury the bodies—they were Alexander’s band played patriotic so mutilated, in the ring near Perkins’s airs. The opening prayer vfs made tavern, at ‘Bloody Rock.’ by Rev. H. H. Welles, D. D. tfol. G. M. “Charles Miner, as careful a chron¬ Reynolds presented the deed of the icler as one ever meets, writes in a let¬ monument lot, which cost $87, minus ter to his son at the close of the ‘His¬ the coal. It is in the name of Madame tory of Wyoming:’ Katherine Searle McCartney, regent, in “ ‘The annals of Wyoming are writ¬ trust for the Wyoming Valley Chapter ten. What could I do but in a simple of the Daughters of the American Rev¬ manner draw a faithful picture of the olution. sufferings endured by this Puritan set¬ ABOUT THE ROCK. tlement? This I solemnly charge—let The address was by Mrs. Katherine no one who comes after me alter a S. McCartney, who, after devoting single word of the text.’ some attention to the adoption of the “He says: ‘Prisoners taken under stars and stripes, commemorated on solemn promise of quarter were gath¬ this occasion, gave an account of the ered together and placed in circles. Six¬ rock, its tragic history and the evi¬ teen or eighteen were arranged round dence for believing that this is the one large stone, known as the bloody identichl boulder where the Indian fury rock, surrounded by a body of Indians. performed her work of desperate re¬ Queer: Esther, a fury in the form of a venge. In the course of her remarks woman, assumed the office of Mrs. McCarntey said: executioner. With death-maul or The skeptic is in evidence in matters tomahawk, for she used the of history as well as of religion. And one with both hands, or I as time rolls on the story seems so far took up the other with one, and remote and so horrible that this skep¬ passing around the circle with words, tical fever has thrown the blight of as if singing or counting with a ca¬ doubt around some of the most prom¬ dence, she would dash out the brains inent events, but when tradition is sup¬ or sink the tomahawk into the head of ported by records they then go hand in a prisoner. A number had fallen. Her hand. It is but 119 years since the mas¬ rage increased with indulgence. See¬ sacre was the sequel of the battle of ing there was no hope, Lebbeus Ham¬ Wyoming. The only spot especially mond and Joseph Elliott, with a sud¬ named by the survivors was the spring den spring, shook off the Indians who at the rock, called Bloody Rock and held them and fled for the thicket. later Queen Esther’s Rock. I may Rides cracked, Indians yelled, toma¬ weary you with details, but I think in hawks flew. The mangled bodies were so doing I may forever silence all afterwards found “round the rock,” -doubts. where they had fallen, shockingly man¬ Let me tell you that the spot where gled. Nine more were found in a the rock is located was once the Per¬ smaller circle some distance above. kins farm. The late Hon. Steuben Jen¬ Joseph Elliott retreated and was made kins has thus described it: “Near the prisoner. It was his fate to be dragged brow of the hill, at the southeast of the to the fatal ring at Bloody Rock, where village of Wyoming, and a little the savages, intoxicated with victory than a mile from the field of action. and excited by passion to wildest fury, This rock at that time was about two glutted their thirst for blood. A circle feet high at its eastern front, with a was formed, two or three Indians hold¬ surface four or five feet square, running ing or guarding each prisoner, while back to a level with the ground, and be¬ the work of death went forward. Queen neath it at its western extremity.” Esther raged like a demon. He saw six Shall we not believe the testimony of or seven murdered. A young man, those who buried the slain, of those who Thomas Fuller, (brother to the ancestry saw the places and conditions of those of Hon. Charles A. Miner and Alexan¬ who fell? Shall we not believe the tes¬ der Farnham) sprang to escape, but timony of those who escaped? I leave it ’was overtaken and tomahawked. The for you to judge. George Ransom en¬ savage yells, the moans of his dying listed at the age of 17 in his father’s friends, the streams of blood, the -scat¬ company. He was transferred to that tered brain, for a moment stultified him. of Colonel Spalding, and in August he With a ray of returning reason, he saw accompanied Colonel Butler to Wyo¬ death almost in a moment certain. He ming. His report presented to Congress could but die. With the might of com¬ in behalf of the Wyoming sufferers, bined courage and despair he threw off Feb. 18. 1839, states: the Indians who held him. and, at a “The battlefield presented a dis¬ spring leaped down the bank, turned off tressing sight. In a ring around a to the rigjit and at a bound cleared a jock there lay eighteen or twenty fence anc| fled to the river. He had mangled bodies. Prisoners taken on passed Mdnockesy Island when a bul¬ the field were placed in a circle by In¬ let struckVflm in the left shoulder and dians and a squaw was set to butcher wnen he arrived at the fort Dr. Smith them. Lebbeus Hammond, for many afforded him aid. He could remember years afterwards a respectable citizen to have seen butchered Jeremiah Ross, Samuel and Stephen Crocker, Stephen Bidlack and Peter Wheeler. It is, he says, tne opinion ct ivzr. jumoit tnafTRp Esther. exasperation of Queen Esther wnv Touching that renowned character ing to the fact that severai indian^p?^ ' and her bloody hatchet deponent saith had been arrested and were held nris not. There never was on this conti¬ nent a finer field for romance run riot betnoeenS ddownao/n°f fiomty F °,herrt palaceQueen Esther'hadat .Kinv.that writable queen and her quin to obtain their release® which Cof hatchet. Any of you who choose to Demson had deemed it proper to zt consult the pages of Miner will find therein a true account of the escape MR. CHAPMAN’S REMARKS. from this rock of Joseph Elliott and i * Hammond, and with it a full detail Chapman®said® °f Ws remarks C. I. A. I ot the deviltries enacted a mile farther I Jip the river, where it is believed Col tic than thefhht statementyH°tU n°thing of Colmore Geor-e authen¬ P George Dorrance and others were tor¬ tured on the same night. That scene mnerf°m’ Who was attached to the com- I believe was witnessed by Ishmael «om Th^Panies 0f Durkee and Ran- an<^ Jerepiiah Blanchard. Tn WesTmorelan?PanieS Were recruUed Those who wish to inquire into t^e RegimentResimem ofnf fhfthe Connecticutn S part of line the with24fh fam?ivy °f- celebrated ‘Montour the express provision that they be sta f ^ ly‘ .Wlth which Queen Esther is saia to have been associated, will find s,h'riufr„:h' "i tSi much that is curious and interesting in the paper read a year since by Sidney after doing manful duty under various R. Miner, Esq., at the monument—now in Jbe archives of the Memorial Asso¬ ciation. town ’ Whf n tr y'?ne and German- r t-l. remember distinctly that my step¬ father, Eleazer Carey, whose first wife was a grand niece of Frances Slocum the lost sister of Wyoming, told me They were finally consolidated into that ‘Brandt,’ the Mohawk chief, was not m the battle, but that Queen ?n“ "2Sr&f“”d“ C*M- Simon Imu? p Ra!fUt‘ (afterwards colonel) George Esther was on the battlefield and that LpR/tson' being with them, and o!® her nephew, Roland Montour, was a captain and took his uncle, Sam Carev Reading® BethiMharChins' by Lancaster, prisoner.’ ’ reached tCfl ,hefm and Nazareth they leacned the east foot of Por-ono Moun “It is now believed that the savages were commanded by a Seneca warrior 1 8» baHto* If °f.;u,r' tbe d“y cailed in the mongrel French patois hours—th®o h? ‘e tiley rested for a few Gucinderacton,’ and that under him age here AtV °f treachery and carn- thJ At the west foot of Pocono were Sir John Johnson and Waite" Turnip bttle creek known in my day as Butler, nephew of the British colonel ?mmkhthnn^’ they me,t the first fugitives commanding, and that under the lat¬ ter the principal British officers were lost and1SfhinreadfUl fieId‘ -A-11 was now Livi and athfey returned to Stroudsburg two captains of notorious cruelty, Cald¬ well and McDonald, both afterwards I u Iftefi e“rS115”1;!f: su“?r <° >6e fighting at Newtown against Sullivan. “Ladies, I know I am too revolting to interest you in the details of this mas¬ marched on ‘Sin to,7 sacre, and I gladly leave them for a remark or two of a different kind. * monttMtS- “rly 'l“ ' Ausust, “ ter massacre. “The inscription on yonder monu¬ quo (in- Lfeut6 g^ound*’ sayg Mr. Miner. mental shaft declares ‘Dulce et de¬ rtJi un» Lieut. Ransom, ‘presented a corum est Pro Patria Mori.’ If then it melancholy spectacle. Most of the be sweet to die for one’s country, may nof’ho W6re S° decayed that they could we not claim it to be equally sweet to make sacrifices for its preservation? tnitfoenreIvriZ®idckaennfn?e What sacrifices are you and I called up¬ MrarRanrkinS S tavern at Bloody Vock on to make? I think the answ’er is plain. I think it is all contained in the i “ve?bnoSS.S*yS 1,6 C0”tM ™«>y lines of the beautiful hymn you often ' count1' F\nSOnb who Sives us this ac- sing: the Brit«uS subsequently captured by p/rmHo Sh’ suffered great cruelties in “Must I be carried to the skies on : flowery beds of ease. While others fought to win the prize ! and sailed through bloody seas? Are there no foes for us to face, no 1 trials on the road? an octogendari^e k his patri°t fathers, Is this vile world a friend to grace to haf\ Ci°,fenanan’ about 1S50. His father help us on to God? grievously1 tWf battle on the 3d; taken into was caPtured, “He or she who in these days of ! ZTS™? -I peace, of plenty, of luxury, fails to di¬ vide of his substance, his intelligence, onK saWR^ wnUeity of this rock I can his patriotism, of his all, whatever it may be, that he may instruct, elevate,' & enliven, purify and adorn his fellow- man, how dwelleth the love of God in Ihet it:? being the exLnoca^ty whe®^ him? xtr?nrrh,re„orss\3 “The mouldering dust of these slain has long since mingled witn tne ele¬ ments and probably passed through a thousand transformations, but their interest. We present the following ex¬ souls, their immortal past, you and X tracts: will (perchance) meet in the great be¬ yond. What will be our answer when From the earliest times of_ which we they ask us: “What have you done in have any authentic account, the Susque- your day and generation that Ameri¬ hauna river has figured as an important [ can liberty, American intelligence, American character might be perpetu¬ factor in the history of Pennsylvania, i ated to ^11 future generations? Might be ] When the white men came they found the fully developed on the lines we laid down? Oh! let us see to it that the aborigines dwelling upon its hanks in" judgment then meted out to us shall great numbers, and they had defensive | not read: ‘Bind him hand and foot and works to protect themselves from the thrust the unprofitable servant into out^r darkness!’ assaults of their fierce southern enemies. “For many are called, but few are Even that veracious adventurer, Captain j chosen.” John Smith, tells us that he found the Sue- | — / j OTHER REMARKS. quehutinocks to he great stalwart men, The st itement of Elisha Harding, re¬ citing tie drawing up of the prisoners armi d with powerful bows, shields and j round the rock for torture, in accord¬ (spears. That they loved to dwell on its ance wi h Indian custom, was read by | banks there is no doubt, on account of the Rev. H. E. Hayden of the Sons of the Revolut on. Mention was made of , abundance of fine fish its waters yielded William Ross, who with his own eyes [ and the game in the contiguous mountains. | saw at this point twenty-four dead bodies ir one ring and nine in another. ! GLACIAL PERIOD. Benjamin Dorrance made an addressl Just when the Susquehanna river was full of i atriotism. The bloody deed I commemorated here to-day was the formed—or how long the process of forma- j deed of £ woman, and so the flag whose I tion was going on—we know not, hut geol¬ adoption! was celebrated to-day was J ogists give us some idea of the forces which , doubtless the idea of a woman. Mr. Dorrancfs plea for the teaching our! resulted iu its formation. When the great children the lessons of patriotism was , glacier bore down from the frozen regions the mos; eloquent effort of the day. This c included the formal exercises, and came within one hundred miles of after w lich the benediction was pro¬ where Harrisburg is located, it is probable nounced by Rev. Mr. Bartlett. that the face of the country was different A^TER THE EXERCISES. from what it is today. Imagine the condi¬ The ladies then repaired to Haycock's j tions which then must have existed. It Hotel, where they partook of what they! called a Dutch treat. ! seems hard to believe thar ice ranging iu With i;heir usual native modestyjrtfat i thickness from one to two thousand feet the event was Loo small to make^jafussi over, the ladies did not invite the “gen¬ ' covered the face of the country. Yet geol¬ eral public. Had they invited the gen¬ ogists assure us that such was the fact; eral public the attendance, instead of : and its advanced line from New' Jersey having been 500, would doubtless have been as many thousand. Even as it across Northern Pennsylvania through the was, the event was a most distinguished counties of Luzerne, Columbia, Lycoming ftl lrpoca _ j__\ and Tioga can be clearly traced to this day. When this mighty barrier of ice eom- mencedjto dissolve,great lakes were formed, From, * and'what are now the most beautiful and highly cultivated valleys found nestling in the mountains of Northern Pennsylvania, (Pdt£ ■ (?i w'ere filled with water. And as this water increased in volume it finally became such au irresistible force that its natural har¬ riers had to give way and an outlet wras cut through to the sea. Therefore wre conclude that in this way what we call the Susque¬ hanna river was formed. THE OLD SUSQUEHANNA. Good William Penn first gazed on its placid waters where Middletown nowT An Interesting; Historical Paper on Our stands (nine miles below Harrisburg) and it Noble River. was after this visit that he conceived the Some historical facts and _ reminiscences idea of founding a city on its banks. At given in a paper read before the Dauphin that time he knew' nothing of the great county Historical society by John F. Me- country lying beyond, or the region ginnes will be perused by our readers with through which the river flowed from its sources. (§16. What would our merchants'of'today ATTEMPTS AT NAVIGATION. think of such rates ? In this book (he Corning down to later dates we find that Susquehanna river is spoken of as “that the Susquehanna was a subject' for much great natural canal,” which shows that the d.sctrssion regarding inland navigation to peopie of that day were of the opinion that facilitate trade and commerce. Before 1770 it might be utilized for commercial pur¬ the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia poses by man, as well as by nature to drain appointed a committee to view the river the watershed on the eastern slope of the and its lower falls with the view of making Alleghenies. it navigable. The committee made a re¬ But at that time there were local jeal¬ port February 16, 1770, wherein they ex¬ ousies as well as now. The representa¬ pressed the opinion that a channel might tives of Philadelphia interests began to be cut through the rocks below Peach Bot¬ show a fear that if the Susquehanna were tom at an expense not exceeding “four made navigable trade would be diverted ’ thousand pounds.”- The committee then from their city tp Baltimore, and in a quiet- concluded its report in these words; “The way they opposed the great object. Their .river Susquehanna is the natural channel | schemes were finally successful and for a through which the produce of three-fourths time Philadelphia enjoyed a monopoly of of the province must in time be conveyed the trade.

to market for exportation, and through PROPOSED SITE FOR NATIONAL CAPITAL. which agreat part of the back inhabitants In this connection it may be mentioned will be supplied with foreign commodities that when the question of selecting a site That this conveyance will become easy and for the capital of the United States was cheap to the settlers above Peach Bottom j under consideration in the First Congress or Bald Friar Falls, and may, by proper sitting in New York, William Maclay? one encouragement, be found the most useful of the United States Senators, named and convenient for all the western trade.” “Wright’s Ferry” (now Wrightsville, At that time steam railroads had not thirty-oB? miles below Harrisburg) as a even been dreamed of, and there was no suitable location and warmly advocated its suspicion that new conditions might arise selection. And, indeed, at one time dur- whereby the channels of trade might be I inS the discussion, it looked as if the Sus¬ a changed. Waterways were regarded as quehanna might be selected. On the 22d the only feasible method for furnishing of September, 1789, the House of Repre¬ transportation for the produce of the sentatives, by a vote of thirty-one to seven¬ i countlT to market and the return of mer teen , favored Wrightsville. Robert Morris, i chandiss. This movement of the Philo- Maclay’s Senatorial colleague, who was , ; sophical Society, one hundred and twenty- fiom Philadelphia, was violently opposed seven years ago, culminated forty years to the Susquehanna location, He feared I later in the construction of the canal sys- j that if the capital was located at Wrights¬ j tern of our commonwealth. ville the Susquehanna would be made • In those early days Middletown was the j navigable and therefore Philadelphia - shipping point to Philadelphia, as well as would suffer. Morris, who had drawn g he point where goods were received from the long term of six years in the Senate, X ^ie Clty for transportation up the river whilst Mac-lay drew the short term of '■ From * curious little book entitled “A De- two years, was then at the zenith of his i ®,'nptlon o£ the Susquehanna .River, with fame. He lad achieved great success. 1 Observations on Its Trade and Navigation ” | but closed his life under a dark cloud of j it is learned that the expense of conveying misfortune. He favored liermantown, or H wenty tons weight by the proposed canal tne “Falls of the Delaware,” for the lo-1 | from Middletown to Philadelphia would be cation of the National capital, and when I ■ A4o, and would require two men and one he could get neither, he was largely in [] horse, whilst the price of land carriage for s-rumental in depriving Wrightsville of ninety-one miles cost £110 and required the this honor. The District of Columbia abor of twenty men and eight horses. was finally chosen asm compromise, and I And the same book informs us that the the Potomac got what rightfully belonged transporting flour to market by cost of to the Susquehanna. this overland route ranged from §1.50 to TENCH COXE’s UTOPIA. • pel barrel; and the transportation of I Another scheme was the project for ||_one ton of merchandise cost from §12 to [founding a great city on the western banks of the Susquehanna somewhere between shadowed Tench poxe’s project, and so far Middletown and Northumberland. The as known, it never got further than the •plan is elaborately outlined; in Tench plan on paper. Just where it was to he ' Coxe’s “View If the United States^ of located never was, so far as I am aware, def¬ initely fixed. The proposal was. to build it America,” printed in Philadelphia in 1194, at some point between Middletown and and in London in 1795. It is amusing to NorthumberlandIf the project to build read this scheme (which tills several pages of his book) a hundred years after it was it on the west side of the river had been carried out some point below Harrisburg written. It contemplated the raising of must have been selected; or if above, Perry $500,009, either by five thousand subscrip¬ or Snyder counties would now be enjoying tions of $lp6 each, or by the sale of one the honor of having the great city. hundred thousand lottery tickets of $5.00 each, or fifty thousand at $10.00 each. Out of this sum $30,000 was to be used in the purchase of two thousand acres of land, which Mr. Coxe thought could be secured for $15 per acre. On From, this land it was proposed to lay off a town or city for inland trade and manu¬ . factures, with streets sixty feet wide, in

oblongs, of file hundred feet by two < • hundred and twenty.” The. contents Date, A/U..«?, /*:/y would be three square miles, with front a of two miles on the river and run¬ ning back one and a half miles. The | ft It lots were to be twenty feet front and one-hundred deep, and there were to be about twenty-six thousand. Different k'nds of dwellings, costing certain fig¬ ures, were tp be erected, together with all Meets in Reunion at the Old kinds of manufactories. Among them was to be one mill of “about five hundred Camp Ground. spindles for spinning flax, hemp and comb¬ ed wool,” which was to cost $5,000. There Quite a Number of the Survivors Get was to be one English printing office cos t- Together for a Day of Reminis¬ ing $500, and ope German costing $300. cence-Addresses by Rev. W. G. Ten grain and fruit distilleries, costing on Simpson and Judge Darte—Letter an average of $2p0 each, were provided for, from T. V. Powderly—Proceed¬ together with on* malt house and brewery ings of the Day. 'costing $6,000. There were to be four The survivors of the lighting 143d school houses and one church for all de¬ Pennsylvania Volunteers, which did nominations. such valiant service during the dark The projector of this scheme thought days of the Rebellion, tented once more on the old camp ground at Luzerne the settlement would form a town of one Borough yesterday, the spot where, thousand houses, useful workshops, etc. thirty-five years ago, the regiment, 1,000 “And,” he continues, “being on the river strong, took the oath of allegiance to I the Stars and Stripes, donned the blue | Susquehanna, a very great and extensive and started for the front. In honor of I natural canal*** the position for the the veterans the town was decorated; from one end to the other with flags \ town must be considered as warranting a and bunting and all had the appearance i presumption that the lots would become of Fourth of July attire. The town j was thrown open to the old heroes, the more valuable.” {• _ . citizens extending every courtesy to Any one desirous of reading the story in 1 make the short stay at the camp full of this curiofs town which was pro pleasant and agreeable. On the summit of the little knoll, ! • jected on the Susquehanna more than a where the regiment was mustered in, j hundred years ago can find in Coxe’s a. larg-e flag was planted and vividly it “View of the United States,” the account must have recalled to the veterans ! present the three months they spent on in full, which is Unknown to nine-tenths the old camp ground. of the present generation. The forenoon was spent in renewing Harrisburg, which bad been founded on acquaintances and relating reminis¬ cences of the many bloody battles the the east bank of the Susquehanna, over - ijL, . "%cX rv ?" i '"$* 143(1 participated in. At noon the velP erans gathered in Houghton’s Opera It is not they inspire my lay, for they House and partook of a substantial immortal be. dinner, prepared by the Ladies’ Aid And my poor praise can add no bays to Society. After dinner the boys got in Immortality. line and. headed by the Jr. O. tl. A M The hand of Fame has graved each name drum corps, marched to the ’ camp full deep on human hearts, While History’s pen unto all men their stirring deeds imparts.

For me 'twere sin to enter in where Glory stands to-day And Genius sings to our heart strings of heroes passed away; Their fame’s secure while still endure those ties of unity Which, wed with knightly valor, made of this a nation free.

But ’tis to you, my comrades true, for all men comrades are Who courage love, and constant prove to Freedom’s guiding star— To you I bring my harp and sing to friendship’s glad refrain, And bid you here, from far and near, a welcome once again.

The hand of Time has touched with rime full many a brow to-day, And ’neath your caps of blue perhaps, you wear the Southern gray; While to your eyes the mists arise as Memory fond takes flight. And boars you back to bivouac, and camp CAPT. P. DE LACEY. and field and fight. ground on the hiii, where the roll was called. The heat on the hill was in- You hear again the shouts of men, the cannon's doomful roar, 1 tense and so greatly affected the older of the soldiers that it was deemed best You stand and fight although the night may come to you no more. £oJd “le exercises of the afternoon in Houghton’s Opera House. Although you feel your comrades reel, you cannot turn to see— The hall was becomingly decorated t'Tis your guerdon to still press on to death with patriotic colors and emblems. On or victory. «leJta^e ™as a Portrait of Gen. Grant, capt. De Lacey presided. Rev Mr And when from hell of shot and shell you W'se of Tunkhannock, the old chaplain scatheless come at last, ,°Vthv.Veglment’ ofCered prayer, after And lay you down that you may drown exVen^Ph FK1SS D°nlin in a brief address the present in the past; extended a hearty welcome to the war¬ You dream of peace and sweet surcease riors. Comrades Turner and Tvler from fratricidal strife tee”8” We’Ve drank from the same can- And home and love and God above and K little ones and wife. Letters of'regret at riot being able to attend were read by the secretary J And drop a tear for comrades near, be¬ H. Campbell, from T. v Pow neath the silent stars, derly, Hon. Thomas J. Stewart of Who sleep serene, where well I ween EZarariHUW-' J‘, ®mith of Honesdale! they fought the rebel bars; J WHpt^PP of Beach Haven, Gen. Till the trumpet dread that wakes the t; w- Hoffman of Philadelphia Col dead of every clime shall blow &o„N- Kel0h"a- B- A.hea'of The reveille of Eternity for mortals hero below. • T' 1*’ Ryder> °f the Record staff was * * * produced and read an original poem That dream is oe’r and now no more shall yb!ch wel1 received and greatly earthly bugle call enthused the veterans. It is as fSllows^ Bid you fall in to fight again, whate’er the land befall. Y°dfyse t0 me the ilberty t0' sin& of other Sweet peace for you, the lea! and true, forever and for aye. Weof praiU?be a thren°dy’ or else a song While brawny sons man Freedom’s guns to guard the land to-day. 0l' before,1 ** “ 6l6Sy f°r comrades gone Swee^ peace for you and honor too; for A Tafare nrmoref^68 ab0Ve °f them ilthe heritage You fought to win, mid battle’s din, il¬ luming history’s page, 0l" hekl’s*ecure& Chant for a nation or you fonl praise and victor's bays— for us the duty clear, ByhheroesPrnth tbraverh°0d and’ * ypure,’ by the blood Of t country's call, to each and all give ° 6p!lbpSe ],onf sleep on ’land or deep fair ready answer "Here.” w BreTedom s blossoms bloom, P ^ bile Union blest, by Peace caressed, still The .comrades were disappointed in I e fawn-arrival of the orator of the 1 aPP* fciate and revere what j V. hut he had an excellent substi- We fought for. Ife condemned the man- Ue in Rev. W. G. Simpson, D. D., of n®r j*1 which several histories deal with Zest Fittston, an honorary member of the battles of the rebellion. The speak¬ the regimenfJ who delfvered an aDl§| er was against rebels making laws for address. He said, among other things: the citizens of the North to live under. One hundred years ago this government j The children of the North should he was an experiment, but it has survived taught that Northern men saved the all the perils of the past and has been | nation. We make too much of Southern made strong and more solid by them, i soldiers and the bravery and endurance . The foundation of it is solid, its institu¬ they showed. The brigade to which tions thoroughly American and its fu- [ the 143d belonged lost more at the ture bright. 'The standard of morals I charge of Stonge at Gettysburg than in this country was not near so high Pickett did. The soldiers of the North 100 years ago. The curse of slavery has were always tht| attacking party. The been removed, drunkenness is not near rebels made two aggressive fights—at so general and the people are more pro¬ Gettysburg and Antietam. Our school gressive. The great warm heart of the books teach our children that the North¬ nation is not all impolitic. When it ern soldier wag not as good as the became known to our soldiers that the Southern. The! school books should war was not being waged for the pres¬ teach that the Northern soldier was ervation of the nation alone and the everlastingly, eternally right and the 'abolition of slavery, but for freedom, Southern soldier everlastingly and eter¬ and God, and liberty they fought with nally wrong. It was the most causeless greater vigor, j We live in a new and rebellion since Satan was hurled over exceptional age, we have greater bat¬ the battlements into hell. We propose tles yet to fight for integrity and polit¬ to maintain this government. We be¬ ical salvation of the nation. All men lieve that every citizen is equal and coming to our shores should be made condemn the tallf of classes. The time to respect the institutions of our coun¬ has come when we should get closer to¬ try. Monarchies live by honor and re¬ gether and the men whose ties have publics by virtue. The more democratic been welded in the smoke and fire of battle should be the first. You have the government becomes the more con¬ bluffed death off! many a time but the scious does it become of its power. time is fast approaching when you will There are grave questions that engage have to capitulate. The Judge wa>j the thinkers of our nation. The large given an ovation at the close of his ad¬ j influx of people from foreign lands and dress. the importation of social agitators to The business part of the meeting was ! divert the unthinking from their peace- > then taken up. Captain Gordon took I ful pursuits. the floor and tendered his resignation A survey of the view before us to- , as a vice president of the organization. day must meet with the approval of all: | The resignation created a little stir, be¬ No North, no South; no blue no gray. ing caused by a misunderstanding. Our object is to be a nation of enlight¬ Everything was straightened out, how¬ ened citizens. There should be no ever, by Captain De Lacy in a short monuments to commemorate the rebel¬ address. lion. not even in Richmond, let alone in Resolutions tendering the thanks of Chicago. Every individual owing al- the regiment to President McKinley for ■ legiance to the United States must sing ; his appointment of Hon. T. V. Powder- ■ “My Country,” live for it and die for it. ly, an honorary member of the organ¬ Let. the deeds of the veterans inspire ization, as labor commissioner, the citi¬ us to keep our country free from traitor zens of Luzerne for their hospitality and tyrant. The men who graciously i and those who helped to make the re¬ sacrificed themselves for the preserva- . union the success it was. tion of the Union can not be paid. The j The following officers were elected: deeds they so gloriously inaugurated President, Capt. De Lacy, of Scranton; must be carried on. Veterans of the first vice president, Capt. Gordon, of war, who shall deserve more the eulogy I Dorranceton; second vice president, of brave deeds than the men who joy¬ Major Vaughn, of Scranton; teasurer, fully and earnestly laid themselves on James Rutter, of Wilkes-Barre; secre¬ the altar of sacrifice? We look upon tary, J. H. Campbell, of Beach Haven. your ranks to-day and say, -what can The office of assistant secretary was 1 you do more than you have done? Lead created and the secretary was given on still! Be all Buckners with your power to appoint one. The secretary rallying cry, Come on! Come on! We was authorized to secure a copy of the look not for individual greatness in you, by-laws and have them read at the but we remember that you finished a next reunion. It was decided to join work which all time cannot overthrow. with the 149th and 150th Regiments in I Comrade Topping, the most enter¬ holding a brigade reunion next sum- 1 taining camp speaker in the county, de¬ mer. livered one of his characteristic ad¬ The following letter was received ' dresses. His speech delighted the boys. from Hon. T. V. Powderly, commis¬ Humoruos stories fairly convulsed his sioner of immigration: hearers. Scranton, Pa., Sept. 7, 1897. J Judge Dart, past grand commander of Hon. P. DeLacy, president of the 143d I the G. A. R. of the State, was the next Regimental Association. speaker. For a half hour he eloquently My Dear Captain: This is the second recounted the days from ’61 to ’65. He time since my election to membership said that it will not be long before the in the association 6f the gallant old old soldier will quit and lay down life’s 134rd Regiment of Ifennsylvania heroes struggles. But we want our children that I have to remain away from the

'.V" ■ Ew5 annual reunion. ItTivas my intention to of human liberty—from ’61 to ’65—s. be with you, but I dm summoned away. have a place in the pension roll of Convey my regrets to the boys and nation. The thoughtless may scoff t in doing- so say to them that I miss the the old soldier, the heedless may for a hearty handshake, I the generous wel¬ time overlook his-claims, but his right come and the frank* honest greeting *of to a nation’s gratitude has been written the remnant of those who stood as a in the blood of the bravest and best wall of iron between the nationa and and has been stamped with the seal of its foes from ’61 to ,’65. the Eternal. The handful of those who Those who will assemble at old camp remain with us are as drops in the Luzerne on the 9th will look back bucket among the seventy millions of with moistened eyes to the days when people and not a man who marched they marched away from that spot to with Grant, or Sheridan, or Sherman, face death in defense of the starry flag. or Meade should be forgotten by his They will miss the sound of many a country in his hour of need. The pen¬ voice, the touch of many a hand, the sion roil is large, but the nation is friendly glance of many an eye, and as large; the pension roll has many names the roll is called the silence which upon it, but those who enjoy the fruits alone will answer, when some names of your travail, in agony and blood, are called, will bring up before the should not begrudge the payment of a listener a vision of a mound of green debt which has drawn interest for a which marks the last resting place of third of a century. the old comrade mustered out. Let the cry of justice to the living sol¬ It is not necessary that I should say dier be sounded at Old Camp Luzerne, a word to send your memories back let it inspire our comrades in every among the hills and valleys of the county and in every State in the Union, Southland, back to the dark days when and let it swell in volume until the Con¬ your bayonets stood a wall im¬ gress of the United States shall join in pregnable, and insurmountable around the chorus and rally round the boys the imperiled -republic. You could not who rallied round the flag when death if you would drive away the memories , and treason hung over the land. of the smoke clouded hills of Antietam I could not forego writing this letter. the midnight marches through the gaps 1 I would much rather have my say be¬ of the Shenandoah, the ramparts of fore the boys, but that pleasure denied Fredericksburg, the surging waves that me I ask that you read this to them rolled humanity into dust at Gettys¬ burg, or the victory crowned ground¬ and in conclusion say that, whether my ing of your arms at Richmond The time be long or short at Washington weary march under a broiling sun the my comrade of the 143d has only to .silent watch beneath the stars ’ i*s command and I will obey wherever and whenever I can do him a service gloomy days spent in hospital and prison, the deadly ambush in which Don’t forget that it is better to build many a gallant comrade went to his up a pension roll for the living soldiers long sleep—will all come up before you than to erect monuments of marble or unbidden, and I need not dwell upon brass to dead ones. Fraternally yours, them.' . T. V. Powderly. -The survivors of the 143d present But, thank Gcd, that, great as was were: the sacrifice of battle, the benefits it gave to our country are also great. P. De Lacy, president, Scranton. Without your sacrifice;, and the sacri¬ Adjt. C. H. Campbell, Bloomsburg fice of those wTio, like [you, gave youth 1 J. H. Campbell, Beach Haven. and strength to our country, the earth R. W. Cox, Stroudsburg-. Ira Hardy, G. W. Engle, W. Keller would not to-day witness the forging Luzerne. forward of the giant nation of all time Had not patriotism of the highest type C. A. Sherman, Glenburn, Pa. animated you the four and thirty stars J. B. Hobbs, Ruggles. you fought to save would have gone George Lameraux, Silkworth Pa William Knox, D. M. Jones, Luzerne. 4raffiwtfer^S^Ml€neath the blows Of tiaitor hands, and we would not enjoy H. L. Maynard, Mehoopany. the sunlight of freedom beneath the Charles Arnold, Forkston, Wyoming hve and forty stars which shine as County. gems on the flag of to-day. Asa Warner, J. A. Roat, Forest Lake. As you look around you when reading Frank Furman, Mehoopany. this, you will notice that the sands of Couirty61 HeSS’ Kunkle- Wyoming me are slipping away from those who «n/0U where Crippen fell, and O. C. Caswell, Silver Lake. at the Wilderness. You will notice the I S. B. Warner, Forest Lake Lewis B. Stark. vi hum °L you~ comrades show a pallor 1 hich fear of death could never bring Richard Keeny, Sterling Ill and y°u win notice that steps once John Myers, Ashley. W. S. Randall. fni Invnd fay are now slow and paln- death watch is set on high B. Bellas, Huntington Mills. Williarn W. Schooley, Plymouth. ore ™ ^oys i.n blue and their ranks Aaron Porter, Wilkes-Barre the lnf ,thla as ,they journey down dninc Ask them if a united nation is H. V. Bogart, Lehman. "f'ks dufy by them? Is the republic Silas Nevil, Sweet Valley frate/uI as 11 should be? Are their 4 Weiss, chaplain, Tunkhannock deeds of valor remembered as they I. JJ. Willis, Luzerne. George Jacoby, Wyoming ahvav^m^h ,-Y°U know 1 beiieve, and William W. Parrish, Wyoming tnrnZf h ^e!l?Ve’ that every man who | C. L. Finney, Forkston, Pa I tn a1S Jlack on home and kindred to race death and_ suffering in defense I Andrew Hi!bard, Beaumont Charles Hppyer,_J>allas. -

lington Heights, and they built Fort | Slocum of the line of Washington de¬ fenses. From Washington early in 1862 Joseph Hoover, Dallas. they went to Belle Plain, Ja„ and were | Thomas Shaw, Sweet Valley. attached YV^ht in which Ffiey were eh- Nathan Vossler, Mecklenburg. important ngm „ ville_May, 1863. James W. Hood, Bloommgdale, Pa. gaged was Chan . .. of f\re at J. R. Morriss, Bear Creek. Next came the baptism d. Alexander McDaniel, Shickshmny. Gettysburg where Cob Dana com &t Henry Hockenberry, Wilkes-Barre. ed a brigade. Th®n Dart in the Carter Turpin, Kingston. Bristoe station, and ^un spott- Rudolph Fenner, Pittston. battles. of LaurelHiJMme « ^ wn_ M. D. Baldwin, Leraysville, Bradford sylvania an They participated County. , , . derness campaign^ and here D. C. Graham, Tunkhannock. ln tht SugHor Hill After service at M. M. Convert, Forty Fort. they built Fort iuun Wel(Jon railr0ad F Haurecht, Wilkes-Barre. re^ment J^reUeved^from^ active Tames W. Moore, Slocum. C^pt O. E. Vaughn, Moscow. C H Finch, Scranton. S«'tfBfftteH. H. Holmes, Battery M, 5th U. S. held and stlP ^ted to him while in Artillery, Kingston. which was pre kindness he had H. C. Beck, 3d Pa. Heavy Artillery, Washington for the , rieg it at every shown the men. KRfv.tT'r. Wagner, 52d Pa., Luzerne. re-union. W. C. Jordan, 77th and 30th, Pa. I Rev. J. P. Topping, 23d N. Y„ Co. A, Pleasant Hill. Rev. J. F. Warner, Wilkes-Barre. C. Hagenbach. Isaiah Wolf. From,-- ^ C Harsey, 19Sth P. V. W. Haslett, 399th P. V. Jr i i ^ B H Bowman, 199th P, V. The history of the 143d Regiment P. ILaaM: ^ *. V , is one that has been read many times. The regiment was one of the hardest fighters of the war The mon¬ _ , iff it, 111 ument to the regiment at Gettysburg Date, ... stands in the field of the first days fight when the old First Corps encountered a superior force of the enemy and fiom l A C. whence they were driven back along Seminary Hill into- the town and even beyond it to the slopes of Cemetery Hill The monument referred to, bears imiB i nil in relief, the figure of Ben Crippen the color beaver, who it will be recalled did not retreat as fast as his comrades and \hont Seventy-five Surviv¬ who thus left alone, became a mark for manv bullets. He fell and the colors went down with him. Major Conyng- ors of the 132d Pu. \ols. ham who was then commanding the regiment, saw the occurrence and with the shout “Rally on the colors m the Headquarters at Memorial Hall in Lee of a heavy fire the regiment went Wilkes-Barre - The Business forward and regained the flaD. At Gettysburg the regiments loss wag'er> Meeting—Memorial Church and severe though it was the^severes^ the Regiment’s Contribution — f^a lar^ number of engageme^t^and Hard Service During the Cam- paign—The Officers Elected. neVnet’slaiolsesnfo?alhe war are much heavier than the average command that

SaColh Dana.6 took‘command of the regi¬ ment from Camp Luzerne-August 1862 Thence the regiment went t Washington where they camped on Ai- teers. Members of the regiment from and victory. All in all, the window is several counties assembled and after a work of art and reflects great credit on its designer, Ernest W. Smith of transacting their business enjoyed a Scranton. The centre opening of this short social time. I During the afternoon it was resolved window will be supplied by the 130th Pennsylvania Volunteers. to hold the reunion next year at Antie- The new church, which is now in !tam, where the regiment saw its first I course of erection, and which is so far ihard service, many of the members be¬ advanced that it is hoped the dedica¬ ing left on the field of battle and sev¬ tion ceremonies will be held on Christ¬ eral others receiving wounds that they mas, is unique in church building, inas¬ still bear. When a vote was taken the much as the windows and furnishings chairman asked all who would be able will cost the church absolutely nothing to go to Antietam to rise, and of the being1 memorial gifts from the various seventy-five members present about regiments. When it became known sixty assented. This was very encour¬ that a new church was imperative, the aging. The fare for the round trip one built in 1867 proving defective, the will be about $7 and the expenses for pastor and congregation began casting the whole trip about $12. about for some means whereby to raise 1 Secretary Newman of Scranton the funds and finally the pastor struck stated that five members had passed upon the plan for making this a battle¬ away since the last reunion, and sixty- field memorial church. With that end eight since the organization of the as¬ in view, circulars were sent to the com¬ sociation in 1886. There are now over manders of the various regiments which 400 members on the roll. had participated in the battle, asking The officers last year were: Presi¬ aid. The proposition met with instant dent, Thomas Barriman, Scranton; first approval and the committee was be¬ vice president, H. T. John, Mt. Carmel; sieged with requests to be allowed to second vice president, T. J. Chase, place windows. Not being able to grant Wilkes-Barre; secretary, Daniel J. the request of all who wished to help Newman, Scranton; treasurer, F. C. it was decided to furnish the church Wintermute, Mauch Chunk. [with chairs instead of pews, as it was The regiment was recruited from nine at first intended, and each chair will counties and was one of the strongest be presented in memory of some fallen which 'entered the Union ranks from hero who participated in that memor¬ this or any other State, having in its able battle. Each chair will have a ranks at the time of being mustered in plate on the back bearing the name of 1,065 men, including officers, and only the soldier in whose memory it was about half of this number were muster¬ placed and by whom presented. The ed out at the expiration of their term, I new church will be known as the Evan¬ the rest having either been killed in gelical Luthern Battlefield Church. battle, died from wounds or sickness or The officers elected yesterday are: sent home in a crippled condition. President, C. P. Sloane, Bloomsburg. Many of those who were mustered out Vice president, H. T. John, Mt. Car¬ mel. at the end of their first term of service re-enlisted and served through the re¬ Second vice president, N. Ferre Light- mainder of the war. The entire regi¬ ner, Philadelphia."^ Secretary, Daniel" J. Newman, Scran¬ ment was composed of young men and ton. the majority of those present yester¬ Treasurer, F. C. Wintermute, Mauch day were men just in the prime of life. Chunk. The regiment had on exhibition in the hall yesterday a memorial window Chaplain, H. B. Fortner, Beach Haven. which is to be placed in the Lutheran 1 After the business meeting addresses were made by C. B. ti'reene of Fleet- jChurch at Sharpsburg, Maryland, to ville, Capt. T. J. Chase of Wilkes-Barre, commemorate the battle of Antietam, comrade Turner, Controller Lloyd and which was fought near there Sept. 17, others. 1862. The window to be placed by the In the evening an informal camp fire regiment will form the right hand was held in Memorial Hall. opening of a triplet window which will be placed on the south side of the THOSE PRESENT. church, now in course of construction. The survivors present yesterday were :The window is of opalescent glass and as follows: represents a series of emblems apper¬ Col. V. M. Wilcox, New York City. taining to the 132d Regiment. In the Major F. J. Hitchcock, Scranton. ibase is a memorial tablet and imme¬ C. W. Neal, Bloomsburg. diately above this is an emblem of F. J. Deemer, Wilkes-Barre. peace and war, which is surmounted Paul J. Gardner, Honesdale. by an arch composed of thirteen stones John B. Fain, Scranton. representing the original thirteen Joseph H. Hale, Danville. jStates. This- is tied in the centre by a Thomas L. Jones, Danville. jkeystone and above this are two em¬ Samuel Lunger, Danville. blems of the United States. Above this Jacob W. Moyer, Danville. (is an encampment scene consisting of Levi W. Miller, Danville. ja gun, stack of ammunition, flag and John McCoy, Watsontown. (Staff and camp in the background. The Bartlett Ambruster, Philadelphia. ^whole picture is surmounted by the J. C. Mack, Slatington. blue trefoil of the Second Corps, Third F. C. Wintemute, Mauch Chunk. Brigade, State of Pennsylvania, bear¬ Andrew E. Watts, Bradford County. ing on its face the date of the battle. t C. E. Clewell, Catawissa. Above this window there is a small Phineas Cool, Nanticoke. tracery opening which contains the Samuel_A. Fields, Weatherly. crossed palms- representative - of oeace H7B. Fortrfeiv 'Beach Haven, thd regiment moved to Rockville, Mary¬ r C. F. Harder, Catawissa. land, a march of twenty-two miles, which H. T. John, Mt. Carmel. it performed in seven hours. It was here John Hi Stokes, Columbia County. assigned to Kimball's Brigade of French's A. S.. Schmier. Catawissa. •Division of Sumner's Corps, composed of * W. fi. Gilmore,. Bloomsburg. the 14th Indiana, 8th Ohio, 7th Virginia, Samuel R. Johnson, Nescopeck. and I32d Pennsylvania. On the 13th of Isaac Roadarmel, Bloomsburg. September the regiment made a forced John ROadarmel, Cattawissa. march of thirty-three miles, reaching the C. B. Sloan, Bloomsburg. battlefield of South Mountain just as the James T. Trump, Forks, Columbia fighting for the day closed. It partici¬ County. pated in the pursuit of the enemy across Amasa Whitney, Mordansville. Antiertam Creek, and sustained a severe Charles W. Boone, Avoca. though harmless shell fire on the after¬ Lewis H. Balton, Philadelphia. noon of the 16th. At 9 o’clock on the fol¬ J. M. Conwen, Hornelsville. lowing morning the regiment met the George R. Gabriel, Wilkes-Barre. enemy at close quarters. The position L. D. Kemerer, Factoryville. of the brigade ivas an exposed one on the Andrew Landsickel, Ransom. centre of the line of battle, and especially Daniel J. Newman, Scranton. trying to the new troops for the first time John R. Powell, Clifton, Lackawanna under fire. For four hours the regiment County. maintained its position without wavering, Joseph Bellarn, Waverly. with ammunition exhausted and ranks S. P. Ringsdolph, Plains. shattered, it was relieved by the Irish j W. D. Snyder, Gracedale. Brigade, and retired in good order. I Capt. Richard Stilwell, Scranton. “Every man of my command,” says Col. I Peter Seigle, Dunmore. Kimball, in his official report, behaved in | George H. Taylor, Scranton. the most exemplary manner, and as men I John Westpfahl, Scranton. who had determined to save the country C. B. Wrig-ht, Scranton. or die. * * * A glance at the position Conrad ¥oung, Scranton. held by the rebels tells how terrible was i David Vipon, Parsons. the punishment inflicted on them. The Robert A. Abbott, Bethlehem. corn fields on the front are strewn with I David Garrett, Wilkes-Barre. their dead and wounded, in the ditch first John Stacey, Plymouth. occupied by them the bodies are so nu- ! T. J. Chase, Wilkes-Barre. merous that they seem to have fallen i James C. DeGrau, Scranton. dead in line of battle.” The loss to the ! W. S. Farnham, Mill City. regiment was 30 killed, 114 wounded and 8 Oliver Newberry, Beaumont. missing. Col. Oakford and Lieut. Anson J. W. Reynolds, Factoryville. C. Cranmer were among the killed. John Wall, Beaumont. After the battle the Second Corps moved E. H. Wells, Meshoppen. to Harper’s Ferry and the regiment was Thomas H. Allen, Scranton. encamped on BMlvar Heights. Lieut. Col. Thomas Barrowman, Scranton. Wilcox was-proinoted to colonel Maior AI- Brooks A. Bass, Scranton. bright to lieutenant colonel, and Capt. George W. Conklin, Utica. Joseph E. Shreve to major. During the month of October it participated in a John Fern, Scranton. reconnoissance to Leesburg and another Benjamin Gardner, Honesdale. to Charlestown. On the 31st it joined in a Lyman S. Milroy, Danville. general movement of the army towards James I. Randolph, Scranton. the Rappahannock, and arrived at Fal¬ W. H. Smith, Mauch Chunk. mouth, opposite Fredericksburg, on the HISTORY OF THE REGIMENT. 6th of November. On the following day it The following history of the regiment was detached from the brigade and order¬ is taken from Bate’s History: ed to duty at Belle Plain Landing. A This regiment was from the north cen¬ month later it returned to Falmouth, and tral part of the State, and was composed commenced preparations for the battle of of an unusually fine body of men. Co. A Fredericksburg. It was assigned to the 3d was recruited in Montour County, princi¬ Brigade, 3d Division of the Second Corps. pally from the employes of the Danville In the charge of Mary’s Heights on the Iron Works;- B in Wyoming, C and Dj afternoon of the 13th led by Lieut. Col. were recruited in Bradford, E and H in | Albright, the regiment occupied a position Columbia, F and G in Carbon, and I and in the second line with veteran troops, K in Luzerne. The companies rendez¬ and showed a heroism in the assault un¬ voused at Camp Curtin, where they were excelled by the bravest. Sickness and mustered into service from the 11th to the , casualties had reduced the command to 18th of August, 1862. On the 15th the fol¬ 340 effective men, and of this number it lowing field officers were appointed: Rich- i lost 150. Five men and two commissioned ard A. Oakford of Luzerne county, col- | officers, Lieut. Charles McDougal and onel; Vincent M. Wilcox of Luzerne Coun¬ Henry H. Hoagland, were stricken down ty, lieutenant colonel; Charles Albright of. whilst bearing the colors. The latter was Carbon County, major. Col. Oakford had killed wrhile in the act of receiving the | served as colonel of the 15th- Regiment in flag from the hands of Its dying bearer, 1 the three months’ service. On the 19th and waving it on to the conflict. An inci¬ the regiment moved for the front, and dent which occurred in this battle well passed through Washington, encamped illustrates the valor and determination near Fort Corcoran, on the Virginia shore which fired the hearts of the citizen sol¬ of the! Potomac, opposite the capital. In¬ diery in this war. John Kistler, a private structions and drill were immediately of Co. F, had his arm blown off at the el¬ commenced and practiced under the in¬ bow by a cannon ball as the regiment en¬ spiring guns at Bull Run and Chantilly. tered the fight. With his arm bandaged On the evening of the 2d__of September he still kept the field, and as the shatter¬ ed ranks came back from the assault h rushed up to the colonel, saying: it was relieved!from"dufy find returned shall whip them yet.” As the' regiment to Harrisburg, Where, on the 24th, it was was returning to town the color bearer, mustered out. In his farewell order Gen. who had been severely wounded, weak French expressed the hope that after a from the loss of blood, but still clinging brief sojourn at home, the brave men of to his flag, entered a hospital, where he this regiment, who passed uriScratched soon after became insensible, and subse¬ through the thickest of the fight in three quently died. For the moment the flag, pitched battles, would again rally around in the midst of the darkness, was not the flag which they had so nobly defend¬ missed, though it was known that the ed. In this he was not disappointed. Two- colors were with the command on enter¬ thirds of the command re-entered the ser¬ ing the town. They were found and car¬ vice, and remained until the close of the ried away by the officers of another regi¬ war. Col. Albright led out the 202d Regi¬ ment. A court of inquiry was afterwards ment, in which were many of his old offi¬ held upon the circumstances of its loss, cers and men, and was subsequently the result of which is shown by the fol¬ brevetted brigadier general. _ lowing extract from an order issued by Gen. Howard, in command of the corps: (EARLY SUSQUEHANNA SURVEYS ‘‘The last color be^er left his regiment after dark, and ill ''lie town entered a INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF A SUR¬ church used as a tj , pital, taking his col¬ VEY UP THE NORTH BRANCH ors with him. He w?is carried away from MADE IN 1774 BY THE PENNSYL¬ this place and the colors left behind. The very fidelity of the color bearer, holding VANIA PROPRIETARIES—MEL¬ to his colors as long as he was conscious ANCHOLY FATE OF THE SUR¬ was the occasion of their loss to the regi¬ VEYOR. ment. Not only no fault could be found with this regiment, but it should receive The fqliowing interesting account of unqualified commendation.” In an order an ea-rf$' Pennamite survey in the Wyo¬ issued by Gen. French, after reciting the ming region is reprinted from the Wya- circumstances as given above, and com¬ lusing Rocket. It is taker! from a diary mending its gallantry in the most un¬ and field book of Jesse Lukens, son of qualified terms, he adds: “As the com¬ John Lukens, who was surveyor gen¬ mander of the division, and knowing the eral of Pennsylvania under the Pro¬ character of the 132d Pennsylvania Volun¬ prietary Government from Dec. 8, 1761, teers, which has fought under my eye in until the beginning of the war of the two of the bloodiest engagements in the revolution, during which time the land war, and which has the highest en¬ office was closed, and again under the comiums from its brigade commander, commonwealth from April 10, 1781, until Gen. Kimball, who knows what brave his death on April 21, 1789. men are, I have deemed it. my duty to Jesse Lukens, a youth of 26, was sent make this record, to go with whatever by the land office in 1774 on an explora¬ may have transpired in reference to this tion of the northeast branch of the subject during my short absence.” Susquehanna to- view and report on After the return of the regiment from numerous tracts of land in thaf'seetion. this battle, to near the close of April, 1S63, He lost his life the following year in the it was encamped near the banks of the memorable conflict at Nanticoke, when Rappahannock, near Falmouth, and per¬ Plunkett led an expedition up the Sus¬ formed only ordinary duties of camp and quehanna to destroy the Connecticut picket. In January Col. Wilcox was hon¬ settlement in Wyoming Valley. Young orably discharged and Lieut. Col. Albright Lukens was a member of Plunkett’s promoted to succeed him, Major Shreve to expedition and was one of the killed, lieutenant colonel and Adjt. Frederick L. there having been a sharp engagement Rfitchcock to major. When the movement at Nanticoke, the Wyoming settlers to C'hancellorsville commenced the term driving the expedition ignominiously of Service of a portion of the men had ex¬ back down the river. pire'!) but when the order to march was This old diary of the surveyor gen¬ eral’s son contains a good deal of in¬ received they buckled* oh thhlr armor, ah teresting reading. It was furnished the without a murmur turned their faces to¬ Rocket by A. E. Cooper, of Coopers ward the battlefield. Soon after its ar Plains, N. Y. rival near Chancellorsville the 132d was Some of the notes and other paren¬ led to the support of the first line, but was thetical matter are by Mr. Cooper, some withdrawn without coming to a deter¬ by Rev. David Craft, author of the His¬ mined engagement, and with the division, tory of Bradford County, and a few are was held in reserve during the 1st and 2d added by the Record. M-r. Cooper says of May. On the morning of 3d it was of young- Lukens: moved rapidly to the front, where, on the Jesse Lukens, whose diary of surveys previous evening, disaster had visited the of the North Branch follows, was born Union lines. On entering the woods north¬ Aug. 8, 1748. west of the Chancellor House, and be¬ In the life of David Rittenhouse, we tween that point and the Fredericksburg find the “Astronomer Royal, Mr. Mask- Plank Road, it received a severe fire from eline having expressed the wish that the enemy in his well chosen position, which was briskly returned and a chaise the difference of meridians of Norriton (Norristown) and Philadelphia could be delivered with the bayonet, in which a ■ determined by some measurements and number of prisoners were taken. In the bearings, Dr. Smith, Mr. Lukens and new line of works the regiment occupied Mr. Rittenhouse were appointed to make an advanced position, and held it to the the measurements required. These gen¬ close of the battle, when the division was tlemen, having taken as their assist¬ withdrawn and the retreat commenced, ants Mr. Archibald M’Clean and Mr. The loss to the regiment in this engage- ^Jesse Lukens, two able and experienced ment was about fifty killed and wounded. surveyors, commenced operations at On the 14th of May its term expired and Norriton early on the second day of July, 1769; and completed their survey Fbrtne'fy "Beach" Haven. thS rfegirnent moved to Rockville, Mary¬ V C. F. Harder, Catawissa. land, fL march of twenty-two miles, which H. T. John, Mt. Carmel. it performed in seven hours. It was here John Hi Stokes, Columbia County. assigned to Kimball’s Brigade of French’s A. S., Schmier, Catawissa. Division of Sumner’s Corps, composed of W. H. Gilmore,.Bloomsburg. the 14th Indiana, 8th Ohio, 7th Virginia, Samuel R. Johnson, Nescopeck. and $2d Pennsylvania. On the 13th of Isaac Roadarmel, Bloomsburg. September the regiment made a forced John Roadarmel, Cattawissa. march of thirty-three miles, reaching the i C. B. Sloan, Bloomsburg. battlefield of South Mountain just as the 1 James T. Trump, Forks, Columbia fighting for the day closed. It partici¬ County. pated in the pursuit of the enemy across Amasa Whitney, Mordansville. . Antietam Creek, and sustained a severe I Charles W. Boone, Avoca. though harmless shell fire on the after¬ Lewis H. Balton, Philadelphia. noon of the 16th. At 9 o’clock on the fol¬ J. M. Conwen, Hornelsville. lowing morning the regiment met the George R. Gabriel, Wilkes-Barre. enemy at close quarters. The position L. D. Kemerer, Factoryville. of the brigade was an exposed one on the Andrew Landsickel, Ransom. centre of the line of battle, and especially Daniel J. Newman, Scranton. trying to the new troops for the first time | John R. Powell, Clifton, Lackawanna under fire. For four hours the regiment i County. maintained its position without wavering, | Joseph Bellam, Waverly. with ammunition exhausted and ranks ; S. P. Ringsdolph, Plains. shattered, it was relieved by the Irish W. D. Snyder, Gracedale. Brigade, and retired in good order. I Capt. Richard Stilwell, Scranton. “Every man of my command.” says Col. Peter Seigle, Dunmore. Kimball, in his official report, behaved in | George H. Taylor, Scranton. the most exemplary manner, and as men! John Westpfahl, Scranton. who had determined to save the country1 C. B. Wright, Scranton. or die. * * * A glance at the position Conrad X oung, Scranton. held by the rebels tells how terrible was David Yipon, Parsons. the punishment inflicted on them. The Robert A. Abbott, Bethlehem. corn fields on the front are strewn with David Garrett, Wilkes-Barre. their dead and wounded, in the ditch first John Stacey, Plymouth. occupied by them the bodies are so nu- | T. J. Chase, Wilkes-Barre. merous that they seem to have fallen i James C. DeGrau, Scranton. dead in line of battle.” The loss to the 1 W. S. Farnham, Mill City. regiment was 30 killed, 114 wounded and 8 Oliver Newberry, Beaumont. missing. Col. Oakford and Lieut. Anson' J. W. Reynolds, Factoryville. C. Cranmer were among the killed. John Wall, Beaumont. After the battle the Second Corps moved E. H. Wells, Meshoppen. to Harper’s Ferry and the regiment was Thomas H. Allen, Scranton. encamped on BWivar Heights. Lieut. Col. Thomas Barrowman, Scranton. Wilcox was-profnoted to colonel. Maior Al- [ Brooks A. Bass, Scranton. bright to lieutenant colonel, and Capt. George W. Conklin, Utica. Joseph E. Shreve to major. During the John Fern, Scranton. month of October it participated in a Benjamin Gardner, Honesdale. reconnoissance to Leesburg and another to Charlestown. On the 31st it joined in a Lyman S. Milroy, Danville. general movement of the army towards James I. Randolph, Scranton. the Rappahannock, and arrived at Fal¬ W. H. Smith, Mauch Chunk. mouth, opposite Fredericksburg, on the HISTORY OF THE REGIMENT. 6th of November. On the following day it The following history of the regiment ! was detached from the brigade and order¬ is taken from Bate’s History: ed to duty at Belle Plain Landing. A ! This regiment was from the north cen¬ month later it returned to Falmouth, and tral part of the State, and was composed I commenced preparations for the battle of of an unusually fine body of men. Co. A Fredericksburg. It was assigned to the 3d was recruited in Montour County, princi¬ Brigade, 3d Division of the Second Corps. pally from the employes of the Danville In the charge of Mary’s Heights on the Iron Works;- B _ in Wyoming, C and D afternoon of the 13th led by Lieut. Col. were recruited in Bradford, E and H in | Albright, the regiment occupied a position Columbia, F and G in Carbon, and I and in the second line with veteran troops, K in Luzerne. The companies rendez¬ and showed a heroism in the assault un¬ voused at Camp Curtin, where they were excelled by the bravest. Sickness and mustered into service from the 11th to the | casualties had reduced the command to 18th of August, 1862. On the 15th the fol¬ 340 effective men, and of this number it lowing field officers were appointed; Rich- i lost 150. Five men and two commissioned ard A. Oakford of Luzerne county, col¬ officers, Lieut. Charles McDougal and onel; Vincent M. Wilcox of Luzerne Coun- ! Henry H. Hoagland, were stricken down ty, lieutenant colonel; Charles Albright of whilst bearing the colors. The latter was Carbon County, major. Col. Oakford had killed 'while in the act of receiving the served as colonel of the 15th Regiment in flag from the hands of its dying bearer, 1 the three months’ service. On the 19th and waving it on to the conflict. An inci¬ the regiment moved for the front, and dent which occurred in this battle well passed through Washington, encamped I illustrates the valor and determination near Fort Corcoran, on the Virginia shore which fired the hearts of the citizen sol¬ of thel Potomac, opposite the capital. In¬ diery in this war. John Kistler, a private structions and drill were immediately of Co. F, had his arm blown off at the el¬ commenced and practiced under the in¬ bow by a cannon ball as the regiment en- | spiring guns at Bull Run and Chantilly. t tered the fight. With his arm bandaged September he still kept the field, and as the shatter¬ ed ranks came back from the assault he

- ’ ■' si:-- : rushed up to the colonel, saying? ’‘We it was relievedTirom^ufy Snd returned shall whip them yet.” As the regiment to Harrisburg, Where, on the 24th, it was was returning to town the color bearer, mustered out. In his farewell order Gen. who had been , severely wounded, weak French expressed the hope that after a from the loss of blood, but still clinging brief sojourn at home, the brave men of to his flag, entered a hospital, where he this regiment, who passed ' unScratched soon after became insensible, and subse¬ through the thipkest of the fight in three quently died. For the moment the flag, pitched battles, would again rally around in the midst of the darkness, was not the flag which they had so nobly defend¬ missed, though it was known that the ed. In this he was not disappointed. Two- colors were with the command on enter¬ thirds of the command re-entered the ser¬ ing the town. They were found and car¬ vice, and remained until the close of the ried away by the officers of another regi¬ war. Col. Albright led. out the 202d Regi- ment. A court of inquiry was afterwards ment, in which were many of his old offi¬ held upon the circumstances of its loss, cers and men, and was subsequently the result of which is shown by the fol- i brevetted brigadier general._ lowing extract from an order issued by I Gen. Howard, in command of the corps: (EARLY SUSQUEHANNA SURVEYS “The last color be^tfer left his regiment after dark, and iij.'Jhe town entered a INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF A SUR¬ church used as a ig , pital, taking his col¬ VEY UP THE NORTH BRANCH ors with him. He Was carried away from MADE IN 1774 BY THE PENNSYL¬ this place and the colors left behind. The very fidelity of the color bearer, holding VANIA PROPRIETARIES—MEL¬ to his colors as long as he was conscious ANCHOLY FATE OF THE SUR¬ was the occasion of their loss to the regi¬ VEYOR. ment. Not only no fault could be found The fallowing interesting account of with this regiment, but it should receive an Pennainite survey in the Wyo¬ unqualified commendation.” In an order ming region is reprinted from the Wya- issued by Gen. French, after reciting the lusing Rocket. It is taken from a diary circumstances as given above, and com¬ and field book of Jesse Lukens, son of mending its gallantry in the most un¬ John Lukens, who was surveyor gen¬ qualified terms, he adds: “As the com¬ eral of Pennsylvania under the Pro¬ mander of the division, and knowing the prietary Government from Dec. 8, 1761, character of the 132d Pennsylvania Volun¬ until the beginning of the war of the teers, which has fought under my eye in revolution, during which time the land two of the bloodiest engagements in the office was closed, and again under the war, and which has the highest en¬ commonwealth from April 10, 1781, until comiums from its brigade commander, his death on April 21, 1789. Gen. Kimball, who knows what brave Jesse Lukens, a youth of 26, was sent men are, 1/it my duty to by the land office in 1774 on an explora¬ make this*^4<- (No,41VT^ n_ e-nno-^ 0 men wo? the! hg inwar tion of the northeast branch of the way from Susquehanna to view and report on SctTu®'40fanda$ e5 ii£«P the tu~nnei: numerous tracts of land in tha"t'*section. After the«*>Pe drove & th« foot <* EbeP He lost his life the following year in the this battlejtoward Jeddod0andU?,nel- ^westw^rd' memorable conflict at Nanticoke, when it was enofmain tunnel ’w-h the other towaV? Plunkett led an expedition up the Sus¬ Rappahaniltunnel was ' reachedthe iine °f the quehanna to destroy the Connecticut formed onlPnt to work one < an°ther gane-n^a n settlement in Wyoming Valley. Young picket. Inenfl. and Te th? tac f Lukens was a member of Plunkett’s orably disc the tunnef*’ S&ns N°- 2 inout- expedition and was one of the killed, promoted The progress „ middle of there having been a sharp engagement lieutenantJfact that every fw siow owing at Nanticoke, the Wyoming settlers liMtchcocW.be .blasted out of Lhlthe tun”?I had*?,? driving- the expedition ignominiously to C'hancH00^ was extremely li10 _,s°b'd rock ’>ru° back down the river. of fc-ervicJ^^l^ting that the*1erLp*3 sorne of'it This old diary of the surveyor gen¬ pired; bu?ne?ss ’f*10 >'* with p?^er drills eral’s son contains a good deal of in¬ received ttjwere encountered*6?6?* ^'^‘of Slotv,- teresting reading. It was furnished the without a sandstone, corfjfn??'3, sreenocil Rocket by A. E. Cooper, of Coopers ward the fee pebble andfek^P’. gfa?/ rival neaj^rewere used Plains, N. Y. Some of the notes and other paren¬ led to the air from" thif r pnwer, an?? fZPera^cl hy thetical matter are by Mr. Cooper, some withdraw] filiation necessary y all thPf*"8 by Rev. David Craft, author of the His¬ mined en for blasting a EL rnstead of dvl VPn' tory of Bradford County, and a few are was held ^ was tls^/f* Powerful lsZntaiPit' added by the Record. Mr. Cooper says of May.J|tro“ andI smoke with® was 1 of young- Lukens: moved rddynamlte fromL?h. ?orcite s? Jesse Lukens, whose diary of surveys previous tides have ifLwhlch all tho f "orny of the North Branch follows, was born Union lli Pntified format ninextracted andS? p; Aug. 8, 1748. west ofU looses some of Vl ! 1 In the life of David Rittenhouse, we tween tl atty r>h>.rlet^3ions of the t> P°' jfind the “Astronomer Royal, Mr. Mask- Plank S tractor ffon W^re Sx8fet(Hnnh*1 as origj the en3ven.ient%4°lnaJ^d thif^lthe cV eline having expressed the wish that the difference of meridians of Norriton which was brisKiy " hey could. an ine So aj- (Norristown) and Philadelphia could be delivered • with the bayonet, in whicn determined by some measurements and number of prisoners were taken. In the bearings, Dr. Smith, Mr. Lukens and new line of works the regiment occupied Mr. Rittenhouse were appointed to make an advanced position, and held it to the the measurements required. These gen¬ close of the battle, when the division was tlemen, having taken as their assist, withdrawn and the retreat commenced, ants Mr. Archibald M’Clean and Mr. The loss to the regiment in this engage- Jesse Lukens, two able and experienced ment was about fifty killed and wounded. surveyors, commenced operations at On the 14th of May its term expired and Norriton early on the second day of July, 1769; and completed their .survey little below the mdulfr of Shick'shin- Njn the 4th.” ing [Shiekshinny, 16 m, below Wilkes- ? In Lossing’s American History papers Barre.] IVol. 1, there is a long and interesting August 9—Set off and about 2 o’clock ' Tetter from Jesse Lukens dated Sept. 13, arrived at Wioming [present Wilkes- 1776, at Prospect Hill (which was forti¬ Barre]. Near night the canoe came up fied by General Putnam after the fight and encamped opposite to where we at Bunker Hill). [If above date is cor¬ lodged. rect the reference is not to Jesse Lukens here under consideration as his death August 10—Waited on Butler [Col. occurred a year earlier. Ed. Record.] Zebulon] who behaved with great civil¬ It appears from this letter that he was ity. Sent Sims to Philadelphia. Field a gentleman volunteer with Colonel went around and is to meet us at But¬ Thompson’s Virginia regiment of rifle¬ termilk Falls. Capt. Solomon return- I men. At the end of the letter he says ed to the fort. The canoe set off and | ‘‘you need not write as I set off from Harris and Wallis for Buttermilk Falls. | i here before yours can possibly leave [20 m. above Wilkes-Barre.] ■ Philadelphia.” In Vol. 3 of the same August 11—Set off up the river. [ - work it is stated that he took up lands Breakfasted at Chapman’s Mill. [This [j 1 in Buffalo Valley, Northumberland was at the mouth of Mill Creek, the ? | County, in 1769 and 1770. first mill built in this region.] Came to • I Many years ago a land trial came up [mouth of the] Lahawanock [Lacka- ' 'in Union County involving a right un¬ wanna.] About noon o’clock met Solo¬ der one of these surveys and Col. John mon and Field. The first bottom above i Kelly was called as a witness to prove Lahawanock is fine land, about 600 the death of Jesse Lukens. Kelly testi¬ acres. The next a fine bottom. The fied that he, Kelly, with others from the land surveyed for Williamson is not >; valley, was along with Col. Plunkett in where Hadsdell lived. Hadsdell’s is his expedition against the Wyoming the second large bottom. Came to people in December, 1775. Jesse had ar¬ Buttermilk Falls in tVie evening and ; rived at Sunbury from Cambridge and encamped. Blankets, etc., all wet in insisted on going along “for the fun of , the canoe -field informs me that there | the thing.” He was very brave and dar¬ is 5,000 a-rres of vacant land between | ing and when they found that they Lahawanock and head of Mill Creek, j could not storm the Yankee fortifica¬ A. man by some called Indian Peter, ] tions without great loss he entered the says there is fine land on the head of first bateau with the colonel to cross the a northerly branch of Lahawanock ! river to take the Yankees in flank. The ' Creek and Tunkhannock [31 m. above latter delivered a heavy fire on the boat Wilkes-Barre], which R. Wilson says ; and Lukens was killed (mortally he holds warrants for. There is the . wounded and died according to his fath¬ Burches Lake [Breeches Pond, Lake er's diary Dec. 25, 1775). He was a very Winola] on the head of Buttermilk popular young man and his death was Falls Creek about 3 miles from our much lamented by the settlers. encampment. The following is the inscription on his August 12—Wallis and Field crossed tombstone: 'the river to reconoitre. Put our goods In memory of cut to dry. Caught fine trout. A lake Jesse Lukens, which empties into Lahawanock about Son of John and Sarah Lukens, € miles from our camp has fine land on Born August 8, 1748, St. and died December 25, 1775, August 13—Sent out L. Lewis to sur- of a gunshot wound received three days ' wey a tract o\’er the river. Went and before from the Connecticut intruders j viewed the lake [Winola] on the head when in company with the sheriff and of Buttermilk Falls Creek, about 3 | magistrates of Northumberland County miles from the camp came to the lake. on a journey to Wioming, in order to The land on the north side middling j support the laws of nis country', aged 27 £ood, some meadow north east side of years, 4 months and 17 ciays. lake, but cannot take it in—marked an “To virtue thus so early snatched ash, hickory and wild cherry, where a away one generous tear in manly tribute run comes out of the meadow on the | pay.” * * * * north side, with 6 notches each. Tired I a horse and left Adam Christ with him ; August 1, 1774—Hired several hands ! at the lake. Returned in the evening) and prepared for the business of the fo the camp. Lewis made a survey on North Branch. middling land, about 350 acres. Capt. August 6—In the evening sent off the “Solomon went to Wialoosing with John canoe. D. Leary, A. Christ and Jacob /linker* John Pick and J- yGrimbs. I Parker in her. August 7—Rained in the morning. 'About noon set off and overtook George Field, William Sims and George I. Mc¬ Williams. Encamped at McClures. I August 8—Set off in the morning.— j Captain Soloman came in the night to Fi'om,.C/ . i the camp and is now of the company to show T. Willings, Esq., 10,000 acres— About 2 o’clock cameto Beeches [Beach <2^^CA Haven, 24 m. below Wilkes-Barre], nearly opposite the mouth of Qppol- lopy [Wapwallopen. 21 m. below Wilkes- Barre], and waited for the canoe— Evan Owen came from McClures with us, remember his discourse. Mr. Har¬ ris met us here, being encamped about 2 miles up the river. Went to Harris’s encampment and stayed all night, a this inscription:— OR Upon this Rock ’M The Indian Queen Eisther Slaughtered the Brave Patriots Taken in the Battle of July 3, 1778. Preserved by the Wyoming Valley Chapter, of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1895. Steps Taken to Protect a The rock 19 best described and the story of it best told by Mrs. McCartney, of this city, who made a lengthy address at the Revolutionary Relic from time of the dedication: It is now 119 years since the massacre was the sequel of Despoilers. the battle of Wyoming. The only spot especially named by the survivors was the spring at the rock, called Bloody Rock and later Queen Esther’s Rock. SCENE OF AWFUL MASSACRE. The spot where the rock is located was once the Perkins farm, and the late Hon. Steuben Jenkins has thus describ¬ ed it: "Near the brow of the hill, at The Indian Chieftainess with Her Own the southeast ot me village oir wyo-'f rning, and a little more than a mile j Hands Murdered Twenty Survivors from the scene of action. The rock at that time was about two feet high at of the Tight—Scenes of the its eastern front with a surface four or five feet square, running back to a Terrible Day. level with the ground, and beneath it at its western extremity.” Shall we not believe the testimony Special Despatch to “The Press.” of those who buried the slain, of those who saw the places and conditions of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Dec. 25.—The Wy¬ those who fell? Shall we not believe oming Valley is rich in historical inter¬ the testimony of those who escaped? est, chiefly of the Revolutionary period, I leave it to you to judge. George Ran¬ and the Historical Society of this city, to¬ som enlisted at the age of 17 in his gether with the Wyoming Chapter of father’s company. He was transferred ; the Daughters of the American Revo¬ to that of Col. Spalding, and in August he accompanied Colonel Butler to Wyo¬ lution, have done much to* preserve this ming. His report presented to Congress interest and to gather facts and relics in behalf of the Wyoming sufferers, of the exciting incidents numerous dur¬ February 18, 1839, states:— ing the early days of the settlement 'The battlefield presented a distressing in this part of the State. sight. In a ring around a rock there j Chief among the many things which lay eighteen or twenty mangled bod- j visitors here are eager to see is the fam¬ ies. Prisoners taken on the field of bat¬ ous Queen Esther’s Rock, which is situat¬ tle were placed in a circle by Indians ! ed near the little town of Wyoming, six and a squaw set to butcher them. miles from here, and which g.ves the Lebbeus Hammond for many years name to the massacre with which the afterward a respectable citizen of Tioga history of the rock is closely connected. County, N. Y., seeing one after another It was only a few months ago that perish by her bloody hand, broke through the efforts of Mrs. Catherine through the circle, outstripped his pur¬ Searle McCartney, regent of the Wyom- , suers and escaped." ing Chapter of the Daughters of the ( In 1845 Colonel Ransom, was aged 82 I American Revolution, the rock was saved and was in the enjoyment of tolerable | from the relic hunters, who have been health. He states in his interview I chipping it to pieces, and saved for pos¬ with Mr. Miner that it was impossible terity to look upon. Mrs. McCartney to gather and bury the bodies—they busied herself in raising money to buy were so mutilated, in the ring near Per¬ the rock, to enclose it in a cage of steel kins’ tavern at “Bloody Rock.” and to place upon it an appropriate inscription. It was dedicated last June. SCENE OF THE MASSACRE. The rock is famous from the fact that Charles Miner, as careful a chronicler it is the scene of the massacre of some as one ever meets, writes in a letter to twenty prisoners taken at the battle of his son, at the close of the “History of Wyoming and delivered over to the blood¬ Wyoming:”— thirsty Indian chieftainess, Queen “The annals of Wyoming are written. Esther, who killed them with her own What cou.d j do but in a simple manner hand, stabbing some and tomahawking draw a faithful picture of the suffering others. endured by the Puritan settlement? This I solemnly charge—let no one who comes A COMMEMORATIVE TABLET. after me alter a s.ngle worn of the text." The rock is about six feet long, flatten¬ Pie says: “Prisoners taken under solemn promise of quarter were gather¬ ed in form and rudely resembles an In¬ ed together and placed in circles. Six¬ dian moccasin. It projects about a foot teen or eighteen were arranged around above the ground, and though much one large stone, known as the Bloody chipped by relic hunters, still preserves Rock, surrounded by a bodv of Indians its original form. A stout cage of steel Queen Esther, a furyxin the form of a now protects it from further depredations woman, assu., ed the office of executioner. With death maul or tomahawk, for she and leaves it fully open to the view of used the one with both hands, or took the visitor. On the rock a tablet in i up the other with one, and passing bronze has been placed and upon it is ~ -»• QUEEN ESTHER’S ROCK.

FAMOUS STONE IS NOW ENCLOSED IN A STEEL CAGE. AS A PROTECTION FROM RELIC HUNTERS AND OTHER VANDALS.

, around the circle with words, as ~'f sink¬ ing or counting with a cadence, she Wheeler killed. . would dash out the brains or sing the “It is,” he says, “ the opinion of Mr.El- tomahawk into the head of a prisoner. liott, that the exasperation of Queen “A number had fallen. Her rage in¬ Esther was owing to the fact that sev¬ creased with indulgence. Seeing there eral Indian spies had been arrested and were held prisoners at Forty Fort. QueenM was no hope. Lebbeus Hammond and Joseph Elliott, with a sudden spring, Esther had been down from her home shook off the Indians who held them and at Sheshequin. to obtain their release, , fled_ to th« thicket. Rifles cracked. In¬ which Colonel Denison had deemed prop-j er to refuse.” dians yelled, tomahawks flew. The | mangled bodies were afterward found A CHARACTER FOR ROMANCE. round the rock, where they had fallen, j Mr. C. I. A. Chapman, in speakin 1 shockingly mangled. Nine more were about the famous Queen Esther, said. I found in a smaller circle some distance “Touching that renowned character and above. her bloody hatchet Colonel Ransom said “Joseph Elliott retreated and was little. There never was on this conti-j made prisoner. It was his fate to be nent a finer field for romance run rioj dragged to the fatal ring at Bloody than that veritable Queen and heij Rock, where the savages, intoxicated hatchet. Those who wish to inquire into with victory and excited by passion to the history of the celebrated ‘Montoui the wildest fury, glutted their thirst for family,’ with which Queen Esther is blood. A circle was formed, two or said to have been associated will fin^ three Indians holding or guarding each much that is curious. I remember disi prisoner, while the work of death drag¬ tinctly that my step-father, Eleazel > ged forward. Queen Esther raged like Carey, whose first wife was a grand; I a demon. He saw six or seven murder¬ niece of Frances Slocum, ‘the lost slstei, W ed. A young man, Thomas Puller, > of Wvoming,’ told me that 'Brandt.[ sprang to escape, but was overtaken and the Mohawk chief, was not in the bati tomahawked. The savage yells, the tie, but that Queen Esther was on th

RH of governmentwhatever;adisgruntled terest. Theynevercanbeunitedinto ence ofgovernments,habitudesand ceived, evenbywritersofromance. showed thatMrs.Reynoldshadmadea and distrustfulofeachother,theywill paper heldtheattentionofaudience, lakes andridgesofmountains.” cording tonaturalboundaries,bygreat be dividedandsubdividedintolittle people tilltheendoftime,suspicious commonwealths orprincipalities,ac¬ extended. . the lastword,andavoteofthankswas which wasquitelarge,fromthefirstto careful studyofthesubject.The. bays ofthesea,andbyvastrivers, From, £->4^ Bate, “When weconsiderthatthesame “The prospectofaprisonwashorri¬ .“AS tothefuturegrandeurofAmer¬ There wasonequotationofspecial tin.. The paperwascarefullypreparedand > First,Wilkes-Barrewaslaidout,nor INTERESTING PRECEDENTSTO How itReceivedItsOdd ciety lasteveninganexceedinj-lyval¬ J. Harvey,Esq.,on“Thelayingout uable originalpaperwasreadbyOscar proved to1beofunsualinterest,the and namingofWilkes-Barre.”It in 1772,’astoldbythelocalhistorians, writer showingthat but in1770.. nally andfornearlyacenturyspelled capital B.,._„ as asingleword,withouthyphenand ming Valleyin1762-3andthedisastrous ence tothefirstsettlementofWyo¬ destruction ofthesettlementin made, andthenbeganaprolongedcon¬ latter year.Inhalfadozenyear-, another attemptatsettlementwas test forpossessionbetweenclaimants pany votingthattheaffairsofset¬ Conn, in1769,theSusquehannaCom¬ under ConnecticutandPennsylvania. rection ofacommittee,whichMajor John Durkeewasmadepresident.He tlers atWyomingshouldbeunderdi¬ was aresidentofNorwich:thC0™”r£ man thenoffortyyears,withexperl SHOW THATITOUGHTNOTTO At ameetingoftheHistoricalSo¬ Second, thatWilkes-Barrewasorigi- The paperbeganwithabriefrefei- ence asasoldier andamanofaffairs, U, Title. He arrived atWyoming with110 m A meetingwasheldatHartford, BE SPELLEDINHYPHEN¬ ATED FORMANDWITH COL. JOHNWILKES, A CAPITALB. _ -_ ji i :i k 115

in April, 1/6if, ana was wet on- msT'ar- i rival by such of the “first forty" as were still here. A few days later ■ about 150 men arrived from New Eng- I lands. A rude defense was speedily ture anaTfhpnsonment oT'iaajor^yr- ' built and named Fort Durkee and log kee and his death in 1(82 at the age houses were constructed. These and the fort were in the locality between Having finished the historical narra¬ South and Ross streets and between tive Mr Harvey entered into an ex¬ River street and the river. Early in haustive' consideration of the proper September, 1769, it was voted to lay out spelling of Wilkes-Barre. Majot Dur¬ five settling towns, three on the east kee who framed the name, spelled it side and two on th v west side. . Each Wilkesbarre. Other contemporary doc¬ was to contain twenty-five square uments, written by educated men. show miles. the same thing, though there is an oc¬ Wilkes-Barre was the first town to casional Wilkesberry, Wilkesbarry or be surveyed and the first to receive a Wilkesbury, showing that not all knew name. The name was selected by of the origin or etymology of the name. president Durkee and was spelled In a few instances it is Wilkes Bari e , as contemporary documents show, or Wilksbarre, Wilkesborough and even Wilkesbarre. ‘‘Who was the com¬ other variant forms appear It was only pounder and originator of this almost in Charles Miner’s later life that he unique name?” In the years 1757 to employed a capital B. In the court 1761, during the French and Indian records the form Wilkesbarre was nn wars, John Durkee had been in the mil¬ general use up to about 1803. The first itary service of Connecticut and had local newspaper, begun in 1797.jasith e become acquainted with a young Brit¬ ! Wilkesbarre Gazette. The Gleaner, m ish officer, Capt. (and later Col.) Isaac 1812 used sometimes Wilkes-Barre and Barre, who was wounded at the siege at other times Wilkesbarre. In 1813 it of Quebec.- Barre returned to Eng¬ used the capital B. The Susquehanna land in 1760 and was elected to thje Democrat (1810-12) used both foims. House of Commons, where he warmly T ■qfpr the original form was used, ^.no espoused the cause of the colonists. Wyoming °Herald (1818-27) used the Contemporary with Col. Barre- was John Wilkes, a colonel of the British eaTlre author noted the fact that the militia, a newspaper publisher, a mem- j *a~**i. Wilkesbarre is employed in the ber of Parliament,— a remarkable in- | cyclopedias, on recent State maps and. dividual who often made life trouble- j by the United States Postoffice Depart¬ some and burdensome to the King of | ment. The only other town, so far as England and his ministers. His resis- . the essayist knew, which hears a name tance and protests against government j compounded of two proper nouns, is measures made hint the hero of the Sayhrook, Conn., in the same county in day, and “Wilkes and Liberty” became which Major John Durkee resided^and the cry of the people. He became i he must have been familiar with its man of great note in English affairs, history, and he doubtless han it m Wilkes and Barre had no greater adi mind when he, in similar fashion, se¬ mirers than John Durkee and the new lected Wilkesbarre as honoring the town was christened with their joint memory of two friends of America. The latter is the form recommended names. 1 Here the essayist followed with anl by the United States Board of Geo¬ account of the laying out of the town! graphic Names, whose standard is fol- in 1770. As shown by original -records] lowed by all the departments of the now in existence an apportionment of United States government." Tfienooardl lots was made in June of that year. was created for the purpose of securing [ Hej^e followed an account of the uniformity of geographical nomencla- j struggles between the Pennamites and ture in government publications. the Yankees for the possession of the Mr, Harvey’s, paper presented much | young settlement, including the cap- matter that has never before been ! made public and was received with I such favor that he was given a special vote of thanks. A discussion followed, both Wilkes- I barre and Wilkes-Barre having their j champions. Judge Stanley Woodward, j who presided, favored the former, but most of the others preferring the lat¬ ter, as it did honor to. Col. Barre, who was of the two by all odds the one de¬ serving to be held in veneration, if char¬ acter counter! for anything. Wilkes was j a good statesman but of notorious im- : moral life. Mr. Harvey exhibited a military pass dated Wilkesbarre in 1769, months be- fore the town was actually laid out. It was signed “John Durkee, president." Copies of local papers of 1799 and 1806 were also shown. The accompanying portraits of Col. Wilkes and Col. Barre are taken from old prints in the Historical Society. That of Col, Wilkes was engraved in' 1774 and of Col. Barre in 17,85, when he was Lord Mayor of London.

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ana settiea in rsoston in xrru ana rais.. a large family. Not only was he a skilled goldsmith,, but learned to make gunpowder and established a factory that supplied the colonial troops with a good part of its ammunition. He also nteresting Meeting of Daughters supervised the casting of cannon and engraved plates for the currency issued by the Continental Congress. He was ; of the Revolution. a trusted friend of Adams, Hancock, Otis- and other prominent men of his MORE HISTORIC SPOTS IN THE day and bore nearly all the important dispatches between Boston and Phila¬ VICINITY TO BE MARKED- delphia, the journey at that time taking PAPER BY MRS. ISAAC P. HAND six days. UPON “PAUL REVERE,” IN On April 19, 1775, occurred the inci¬ dent which made him famous—the ride WHICH SHE STATES SOME IN¬ from Lexington to Concord. On his TERESTING FACTS—MEMORIES way he found Hancock and Adams in the Clark-Hancock home and informed FROM LEXINGTON. them of the approach of the British Y'esterday was the anniversary of the army. The speaker described the mem¬ battle of Lexington. It was also the orable journey, quoting freely from the seventh anniversary of the organiza¬ poem which has made Revere so well tion of Wilkes-Barre Chapter, Daugh¬ known. She followed his career until ters of the Revolution. That body the age of 83, Sept. 10,: 1818. met in the rooms of the Historical So¬ Mrs. Hand was given a vote of ciety last evening to commemorate the thanks for her excellent paper, the event. The attendance was large and closing words of which were received the proceedings especially interesting. with applause. Mrs. W. H. McCartney presided, and in Mrs. McCartney announced that 3,500 well chosen words explained the object graves of Revolutionary patriots had of the meeting. On last Flag Day, she been located and properly marked in said, the Daughters took possession of Boston and vicinity by the Sons of the Queen Esther’s Rock, and on next Flag Revolution of that place. She also re¬ Day they intend to properly mark the ferred to the significant fact that Con¬ location of Fort Wyoming ana Fort gress had just passed a resolution Durkee. The former was built by the which is a virtual declaration of war Pennamites and was located almost ex¬ against Spain, making the 19th of April actly opposite what is now the resi¬ memorable once more in liberty’s an¬ dence of Judge Woodward. It was nals. captured and destroyed by the settlers, Miss Ella Bowman talked entertain¬ who, however, rebuilt it in 1778. Fort ingly upon Lexington, the home of her Durkee was situated near the present ancestors, which she has frequently residence of T. H. Atherton, in the visited and from which place she has block between South River street and brought back many interesting relics the river and South and Ross. of revolutionary times, which she ex¬ Miss Guye was introduced and read hibited to the society. Among them with fine effect an original poem on the were several pictures of historic places, battle of Lexington. She was given a one of the old Clark-Hancock house, vote of thanks and the poem placed in framed in a portion of ohe of the win¬ the society’s archieves. j dow sills. She also showed a piece of Mrs. Isaac P. Hand read a most in¬ the original bell tower of the church teresting paper, her subject being where Revere’s signal lights were dis¬ “Paul Revere." Her sketch of his played; a view of the Harrington career brought out many facts not gen¬ house; a picture of the spot where the erally known and showed him to be one minute men stood, and one of Breck- of the most interesting figures of the man’s tavern, where the patriots gath¬ revolutionary period. She gave a brief ered after being awakened by Revere’s history of the Pluguenots, from which ! alarm. One of her ancestors, Rev. stock Revere sprang; how his an¬ Jonathan Bowman, was married to cestors came to this country to enjoy Elizabeth Hancock in the kitchen of the that freedom of worship denied in old Clark-Hancock house, which was ■ France, bringing with them a buoyancy j built in 1698. 1 and cheerfulness, a love for the beau¬ In conclusion she read from the pro¬ tiful and of liberty, -which brightened 1 ceedings of the Lexington Historical and softened the austerity of the Society a quaintly humorous letter Puritans with whom they came in con¬ written by Sallie Monroe to a friend in tact. The coat of arms of the Revere, New York, describing a visit paid her or de Revoire, family was described, family by Gen. Washington. the Latin legend translated meaning After benediction the members gath¬ ered in groups and had a pleasant time “Fight for Country.” socially. When Paul left school he entered his father’s shop and learned the trade of The room was draped with the na¬ goldsmith. He became one of the four j tional colors and on the President's engravers then in America and was a table was a pretty boquet. most skillful designer. Some of his work is still preserved. He also pub¬ lished a collection of American songs. Upon the breaking out of the Revolu¬ tion he was made a second lieutenant I by Gen. Shirley and became the mes- ! senger of the government. He married showed IiiHTar'dund anti rotufily recited the j history of every relic called to his atten¬ tion. Over the window of tiie stair land¬ ing is an old torn Hug, tho one which . had beeucarried at the he.nl of the lford | Regiment, Oolonal Liana’s old command, a history of winch was given in the Lead¬ From, °L«...* . er on the occasion ot different reunions. In a glass ease- is a small regimental marker, carried through the Civil War and 1 bequeathed to the society by|Col. liana just before his death. In another com¬ partment of the same case is a:: oil tat¬ tered ilag of the Wyom ng Artillerists a military organization which wen honor - and distinction in the Mexican Mar and served gallantly throughout H10 yivil War. Thellag jg somewliat faded, but us tagged , . a « « A « a » » * 1 A » « « t 1IHH >1* J edges, and bullet torn body mutely but [From the Sunday Leader.] eloquently tell the story of battles fought and won, pain, fatigue and suffering en¬ dured, and of Hearts broken at home be¬ cause loved ones who went out under its mm HISTORY (IS starry folds, met their death in its de¬ fence” on the sandy plains ot Mexico. Looking at that emblem of liberty, ripped and torn by the musketry of a , UiZSH'S MILITIA. foreign foe, one cannot suppress the feel¬ ings of admiration for the brave rn-eii who so promptly responded to their country’s call, and laid down their lives that the Settlers were Patriotic and Main¬ land of their fathers, baptized by W asking- ton in the blood ot patriot..-*, might retain her honor in the face ot all dangers, and tained Perfect Organization. stand before the world one of the mighti¬ est of nations. And as lie reads the list of battles in which the old 11 ig waved at the head of the column, a sense of pride swells THE WYOMING ARTILLERISTS. in his heart, that he lives in a city which, when internal disension threatened to dis- troy our country, her sons .rallied to her A Crack Company Which was the * support and fought and bled that the “Union might remain one and inseparable, Pride of the Town—Their Glo¬ now' and forever.” * * rious Record in Two On the old Ilag in* gilt letters are in¬ Wars. scribed the names of llie battles: vein Cruz, Cerro Gordo, El Penal, Pueblo, all of the M( xican war. Ghaiieellorsvilie, Gettys¬ Nearly everbedy in the city knows that burg. Wilderness, Laurel Hill, North Anna, there is such an orgahization in our midst Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Hutchins Run of the Rebellion. The older citizens as the Wyoming Historical and of Wilkes-Barre remember having seen Geological society, and the society has a ttiis llag on many occasions, but the nice building at the rear of the Osterhout younger generations do not know that Free Library on Franklin street, but how such a relic is in existence. They have many know the vast amount of work the heard of tho Wyoming ArlMerisis, and organization is doing to perpetuate the possibly have read brief mentions of their history of Wyoming and the people iden¬ service in their history, but beyond that thev know nothing. The Historical So¬ tified with it? The rooms are open every ciety, however, lias preserved its glorious Monday, Wednesday and Saturday atter- history and every boy and girl in Wyo¬ noons but beyond those who cal1 lo voung men assembled on the first Monday description, geological specimens a moct in May for inspection and drill. Wilkes- without number abound, and relics inval¬ Barre was divided into two companies, uable in price are carefully stored in g a^-. those south of Market street being known cases so that the visitors may see but not as the Bloody Eighth. Lieut. Col. Kitchen in a neat little book giving the history ol molest. ^ t he Wyoming Artillery, says: "It num¬ On Wednesday afternoon a Leaded re¬ bered about 800 rank and speaking of the old militia file, and such a porter sauntered into the looms, motly mass could have done no discredit hearlv two hours was intensely i..teieste i*n his surroundings. The secretary ot the to Fallstalf’s famous legiment, yet it was only a ty pe of the fighting material which society. Rev. Horace E. Hay'ie“’ the wav. is one of the most eiithasiabUo _... .. this great Common wealth of Pennsylvania,. ] H.B: Price, EfF. LyriCTf.- annually paraded for the delight of little Encampments were held then as now-, and boys, and as a huge joke for the public the authority quoted gives an interesting ! generally. The one redeeming feature description of one wnieii took place on was tiie gorgeous array in which the Kingston fiats opposite Wilkes-Barre in the field officers displayed themselves, the autumn of 1843, and participated in by regardless of good sense or good the military element of Columbia, Lu¬ taste; why a circus of the present day was zerne and Wyoming counties. “But the j nothing to it. These trainings always Artillerists were the lire and soul of the h happened after corn planting time, When display. Gen. E. W. Sturdevant, Col. s the lads who had followed the furrow and [ Charles Djnance and Major George F. swung the hoe, had money to pay the fid- i Slocum were the field officers, and Capt. L dler, buy the girls cake and beer, and in¬ Francis L. Bowman was elected inspector I vest in the French banli or ‘sweat.,’and they with the rank of major.” During tne en- [| were always arranged so as not to inter¬ campment, the officers gave the country 11 fere with eacti other. This gave the fid¬ folks an illustration of military discipline. . j dlers, gamblers, showmen and peddlers tne Private iGonrad Tippenhauer was tried } 1 benefit of a full harvest. The parade and convicted before a drum head court ground was a lot adjoining the church matial, for stealing cheese and was sen- 9 near by. In the tavern all the rooms were lenced to be shot. The news spread 1 ■ appropriated to dancing and drinking. In throughout the valley, and at the each was a platform, on which was perch¬ apppointed hour for the execution, j ed a man with a fiddle and a boy with a an immense crowd had collected 2 tambourine, making screeching music, to witness it. Tippenhauer was placed in ' while the lads and lassies cause the ‘double1 the center of .1 hollow square and marcned | shuffle’ and ‘pigeon wing’ in ‘straight to the place of execution. “There was tne 1 fours’and‘French fours’to the tunes of wailing of the dead march,” says the his- | Money Musk and the Irish Washer wo¬ torian, “and the solemnly suggestive roll , man.’ ” ot muffled drums. The farce was marie to J appear so real that tender heirted maidens S sobbed aloud, while stal wart countrymen All this was preliminary to the organi¬ 8wore it was a danued shame to shoot a 65 zation of the famous Wyoming Artillerists poor feller jest fer stealin’ a bit of cheese.” ’J and in the light of subsequent events, was Tippenhauer was shot, foil over and appar- h just what was needed to develop the patriotism necessary for the formation of ently dropped dead. Next day he appeared ! in the parade, however, and the people • the company. Gen. Isaac Bowman, the father of Maj. F. L. Bowman and Col. who had witnessed the affair realized that tney had been duped. ' Samuel Bowman was the leaking military spirit. He was not only an ardent friend *#•* to the volunteer system, but he had given Next Sunday the Leader will present the fi his sons a thorough training and imbued muster roll of those who went out as I them with something of his own enthusi¬ artillerists in answer to the president’s ; Call. •. .7 - • asm. “Frank was especially ardent,” says j_ M the same authority, “and in the spring of 1842 commenced organizing the Wyoming Artillerists, a company which has made its name famous from Vera Cruz to Peters¬ burg.” Here is the “Orderly’s Roll of the Wyoming Artillerists” when organized in 1812 and many of the names will be recog¬ nized. Captain, Francis L. Bowman. First Lieutenant, Edmund L. Dana. Second Lieutenant, Martin Long. • Third Lieutenant, Aaron Brown. First Sergeant, Wiiliam W. Wallace. Second Sergeant, E. B. Codings. t The Artillerists Promptly Re¬ Third Sergeant, William Sharpe. First Corporal, William Dickover. sponded to the President’s Call. Second Corporal, G. H. Davis. Third Corporal, John Wolf. Fourth Corporal, John •Millhirsh. Musicians, Gilbert Barnes, Peter Kropp, TONY BAUR’S FORTIFICATION. Thomas Hay. Privates. Adam Beheo, Wm. Hunter, Muster Roll of the Artillery—Names Jacob Bauer, J. S. Mickley, John C. Frederick, J. F.Puterbaugh, Well Known In WHltes-Barre—A William H. Jonos, Anthony Mowery, Biqrlons Record of Courage Daniel Wagner, Francis Brown, and Hndurance. I. M. Fritz, S. A. Lynch, Con. Tippenhauer, David try, Andrew Kessler. Edw. LeClerc, J. H. Robins Valentine Flick, The departure of the Ninth for Mt. Augustus Sehimpf, Samuel Bowman, Gretna on Wednesday evening drew out Conrad Klipple, William B. Maloy, tlie largest crowd seen on the streets of John B. Smith, Joseph Mowrey. Wilkes-Barre since the Centennial in 1878. Additional names in another roll, July, It was a cxowd filled to overflowing with- [ 1842; patriotic enthusiasm, and as the boys Ernest Roth, W. H. Alexander, marched along the street they were greet¬ M. B. Hammer, G. L. Jackson, B. R. PniUips, Chas. Westfield, ed with the heartiest kind of encourage¬ Charles Lehman, Abram Moxu/, ment and applause. The occasion was a * '*}• , tions. iu ascending a little rise orgrouml, Willses-Barre, and to the older inhabitant wooded on either side of the road, they vividly recalled ;the {stirring days of ’61 were pounced upon by a considerable when the beat of dnuu and shrill note of body of rebel horsemen who were am¬ Ore quickened tho pulses and urged men on buscaded in the woods, and made prison¬ *»> do or die for the tri-colored flag of their ers before they really knew they were near country. In those days there was no such dangerous company. The consequ¬ Ninth Regiment but thSre was the nucleus ence was a long and tedious imprison¬ ment. Like Gen. Dana, Col. Bowman was for a good company in the veterans of the placed under the fire of Union guns at Mexican War who composed the old Wyo¬ Charleston in retaliation for tiie bom¬ ming Artillerists. After tne return, as bardment of that city." Tile act was down described in last Sunday’s Leader, there right cowardly upon the part of the were three years of inactivity in military Rebels, but Col. Bowman, never flinched, oiicles, but in 1850 the public spirited resolving that if he had to die, he would citizens of tne town reorganized tne die like a soldier. company and regular drills were again inaugurated. While there is no muster roll in existence of the company at that 1 There was the humorous side to theserv- time, it is known that the following were - ice as to everything else, and an amusing prominent members oi‘ the Artillery; incident is recalled by Court Crier Albert Major L. B. Speece, Thomas Totten, (Li¬ Barnes. Mr. Barnes and our well-known bert Teed, John Dickciver, Charles C. townsman Tony Bauer, belonged to the Stout, Herman Frey, Chauncev and Henry band and therefore were not required to Rool, Asa L. Gardner, Lewis Hay, Daniel carry arms. One day the musicians were Hay, Gilbert Barnes, Rufus W. Maroy, about to sit dowu to their dinner of haid Alfred Groff, B. W. Finch, Albert Barnes. tack and coffee when a shell exploded a few yards away and sent them scurrying *** to shelter. (Some ran this way and others In 1861 President Lincoln called for vol¬ that, bnt Tony jumped behind the big bass unteers to serve three months, and the arum and crouched there in fancied se¬ Wyoming Artillerists were among the curity until the firing ceased. Tony first to respond. A. II. Emley was qaptain and his lender of the Artillerists to the didn’t seem to realize the danger of his position, but like the ostrich with its head service was readily accepted. Tne com¬ buried in the sand, imagined he was out pany was attached to the 8th Pennu. Vuls. of harm’s way. When the insecurity of of which regiment Capt. BmJey was sub¬ his position was subsequently called to sequently elected colonel, and Samuel his attention, he trembled at his narrow Bowman lieutenant colonel. Edwin W. escape from death. I Finch was first lieutenant and Butler Dilley second lieutenant. On the morn¬ *** ing of April 18, 1861, the company to the In July, 1863, Col. Dma organized the number of sixty men, assembled in the lJ8d regiment and the Wyoming Artillery, hall over Morgan’s hardware store on recruited to its full complement of men] West Market street, while the people formed one of its best companies. Tne thronged the streets and Public Square muster roll of the artillerists shows the to Lid them farewell. The day was raw following names, many of them citizens and cold and a freshet a few days before weil known in the community to-day. had piled the ice to a height of ten feet on Those who mourn for the departure of ttie the fiats, and through tins mass a narrow boys of the gallant Ninth to-’day can con¬ pathway was cut to permit the Artillerists sole themselves with the knowledge that to pass. The wind blew a gale as they other men, prominent iu all the various marched to the depot at Kingston where walks of life to day, shouldered their they boarded a D., L. & W. train for Har¬ muskets nearly thirty-six years ago and risburg. Before their departure they went off to certain battle. Look over the were addressed by Col. Hendrick B. following list and see how many names Wright ami while he vividly pictured the you recognize—names that are embla¬ suffering and danger in store for the sol¬ zoned on the pages of history and will diers, he urged tnem to be true to them¬ live for all time to come: selves their country and Wyoming Valley, jf Captain, George W. Reichard. On the morning of the 19th the company First lieutenant, Charles B. Stout. reached Camp Curtin and were mustered! Second lieutenant, Rufus AV. Marcy. into tne Sth regisuentas Co., F ami was Second lieutenant, John C. Kropp. | known as such to the end of their term of Second Lieutenaut, Max Burkhart. service. The regiment did no fignting br¬ SERGEANTS. ing assigned to picket duty in the Shenan¬ 3 John Netier, Thos. Dakin, doah Valley under General Patterson wid John M. Connor, Chas. S. Gable, jacquitted themselves creditably. Their term of enlistment having expired they Henry Frantz, Joel S. Lynn, | were discharged at Harrisburg, Julv 29, Albert Barnes. jil881, und while many returned home a CORPORALS. jlarge number promptly re-enlisLel and James M. Rutter, N. F. Landmesser, served throughout the war. Hiram Kitchen, John R. Morris, Jacob M. Lynn, David ATarner, George Kindea, While the company did no fighting George Dietrick, Edwin H. Groff, [there were evidences of bravery in the Benj. D. Vannetler, ranks whie h are not forgotten. An in- George AV. Keller, Geo. H. Maginnis, Istaneo recorded by Lieutenant Col. John McClellan. [Kitchen is that of the capture of Col. Bow¬ MUSICIANS. man and the present collector of taxes, E. John Gray, Asa L. Gardner. H. Chase. “One day,” says Lieut. Kitcnen, “Col. Bowman and E. H. Chase ventured PRIVATES. across the Potomac, where all looked Geo. B. Adams, Jeremiah Augst, Chas quiet, for the purpose of taiing obsuv.t- J. Allen, John A. Adams, John R. Allen’ Jacob Bergold Chas. O. Betterly’, Henry Barnhart, John Brown, Bryon Brock, Charles Bram-Sr ntnrv Krnniiv Morris Bush, Daniel JABEZ ATHERTON. Pot hie hem John Bennett., Jacob Blain, : Chas!t ”erties, Ben.i. Ballinger, Thomas Berber, Thomas Bony, Miles Ban etc, John SKETCH OF ONE WHO BRAY ELY Conly, Francis Codings, Henry b. Cos, Lewis Co nstine, Alex, oraigle, Vilsoii B. FELL AT THE WYOMING BAT¬ Connor, Harace II. Dennis, Charles Davis, TLE AND WHOSE NAME IS Harry Daniels, Simpson DeLong, Bern. THE- FIRST ON THE Devatis, Edward G. Derr, Henry H. De- \-Dish Luke A. Deloyier, Joseph Dot- monument. ''ter Avery Dilley, James Digman, The following sketch of one of -ke iofiver H. Eckert, AFrancis Inlow, early settlers of this valley was pub¬ 1). W. Scotjt Jones, Wm. Keating, Ji., lished by Mr. E. A. Atherton <> G - J Joseph Knau, George K Knau, John Law, burn, Lacakawanna County, m t^e James Lynch, Samuel A. May, Sebastian Scranton Republican Ap ^ citizens i Meyer, George H. Meloy, Solomon Miller, AfViprtnn is one of tne oiaest . John Miller, William Moss, Alex. S. Millei, now living in this section of the coum . SamuC S, Miller, Daniel McElvaui, John E. McMullen, Alfred McGuire, A. W. New- comb, Bradley Farrish, George Flatt, Eugene Penfield, Jesse B. McCartney tor re-publication in t te Bunk, Emanuel Richard, « W. Beller, Jas. B. Eennard Chas. | S. Shotten, David Shipp?, Bauben L. Seat ,0..g;n“!t>s’Atberton ... born i. lj» foss, John B. Stevens, Jacob Smyser, John Slooiiser, Malchia Summers, wm. Smith, Win. Scott, Moses F. Smith, Jacob Strom, William Ii. Swoyer. Jacob Erneret, Albert N Y., in what is known as Oblong He Eyler, George W. Engle, John C. l^nlz, vvping a blacksmith by trade ha Sled bow to cobver. iron ,ntOe A„er-1 Jesse Fairchild, Levi S. Grubb, Bichard Green, Fred Grossman, Andrew Gear- lean steel, and hehere J;chaTlts o£ lik, C. D. "W. C. Hoover, Frank contract?Lt Piuce with ^ing the inKeeas, Are a, -nntrhessDutchess Hawrech, John S. Hetrick, John E. Holt, Elijah Huntzman, Jacob Sutton, Morris County, they to erect we instruct Simonson, Leauder Simonson, Samuel Swainbank, John Severns, Win. A. Sny¬ SrwSSr m tbl, ar.t Tbe worbj der, Geo C. Tucker, Jeremiah VaubusKirk, M. Whttebread, John B. Whiteman, ii. 1 • ;«-a« I Whitaker, Joseph Weller, Egbert M. West¬ brook, J. ii. Zimmerman, H. A. Zimmer¬ bridge, near Boston’bMongfngtoTni- man, . *** The history ofThe artilleries during the j once President of ^Unit clothier,s war is a pant of the history of the 143il,lt9g- Here it was he i xT0ii;ster refers in 1 ituent, and could scarcely be given separ¬ shears to which Dr. ckawanna Valley, ate. Suffice it to say, it is a history re¬ his history of Laj*a™an Revolution, plete wita deeds of valor and courage, yet and he made guns for the Ke of oneot suffering, privation and intense The British commander at turn_ torture. Many of the old vet¬ Boston, hearing th;a th y.tizens were erans who served their coun¬ ing out guns ^"d„ed from the grow- try at that time marched at una head being supplied Judge x colonists and of the columns on Wednesday night and and as the drums heat, the flags waved the S! country, tbat^wouid people shouted, their eyes grow moist with the recollection of other days, when they SoY Tl StS»t o« ^oidjere and ■in the hey-day of young manhood, march¬ ed to the front and valiantly gave battle i n defense of ttieir country. It was a glon- ‘■seux ■srafe w:' -ous sight! The gray haired veterans of in about theL^fhoes and balls as well worked making ho a ^ calUng- He thirty-three years ago, and the nations as stock Pertaining to that he i0ad- defenders of to-day. Hand clasped in hand, the old ■ man gave encouragement and advice, and the young man with flash- } ing eyes and stern face, vowing to detenu the flag even with Ins life. And such is to piym-, the patriotism of the Americans’ \ outh. -vitvi the Wyoming “In connection b Kt a statement >!» nr* 1 Massacre I wish to c .gketches of. of Col:v,yrife speaks of Jabez Ather- piymouth. tie sp f -Wyoming, ton who fell at the Battle Ather. las if he were a brother^ ^ th& valley From, ton and he says was incorrect as early as 1J63. ^ wag a son of in both cases. He was born in . Cornelius Athert0“ 17th year at the 1761 and was '^ When it was de¬ battle of Wyoming- enemy, Cor- .cided to give battm tO e in that en- Date, t ^ ^ nelius was drafted to g referred t0i sageISean« ^/oldest son_of^Cornelius, 12

and destitute, having suffered the loss j immediately objected, and with love un¬ of all things, and sorrowing most of all j excelled for his parents, and his young for the dead they had left behind un¬ brothers and sisters, cheerfully vo!un- buried. . T teered to become his substitute. H . “Mr. Atherton remained in New Jer¬ words were these: ‘Father if you fall , sey but a year or two, when he re¬ what will become of mother and the turned to Lackawanna and took up S?ar,"r I< I fan 600 acres, 400 of which his sons John take care of them.’ He was acoeP1^ and Eleazer, paid for half a century and mustered in. In moving up to the ago. John brought up a large family Sa»Hfc» South Bainbridge, Chenango County, j a ffckly woman, was then confined to N. Y., in 1809. After his settlement I her bed but fear of danger sometimes in Lackawanna his Christion life as- ■ proves a powerful tonic, as it did « sumed &. very earnest amd decided chai- acter. Ministers of the gospel were SiSthCeaSrIverSOwnSUaWfeew °o? tfi^most few Once in three months, perhaps, valuable^ goods, designing to embark some traveling preacher would come in tvmir trading canoe. When cney ai along and hold forth in some private rived at the river bank their canoe was house or barn. Mr. Atherton, under this state of things, from a stern sense ^^•ded^the'm^ThL11 father Ind his of duty, began calling the people to¬ bovlf returned™^ once to their dwelling gether on the Sabbath, reading to them and took up all the ^o^.^^^^they sermons from books, and even went so ine- them to the river, with whicn tney far as to follow them by stirring ex¬ constructed a raft and all got on hoari hortations. He likewise kept up week¬ After running a few mites the®\ canoe ly prayer meetings in the neighborhood. the man who had taken their canoe He never omitted family prayers morn¬ which he at once gave up, an<* ™ ^ ing or evening. He had one place transferred to it. They ran ad far as where he stood in old Puritanical style, Nanticoke, the appointed piace of ren- with arms outstretched and hands and dezvous Cornelius had a horse, witn face upturned to heaven, and there he which John, the se^on^„|°^rIes Cpro- invoked blessings upon himself and pany with others who had horses, pro family. His end was peace. He was ceeded by land on the west side of the Joyed by all who knew him.” i river In crossing over with the horses he had to swim them, the men being inthe canoe holding on to the halters and when nearly across the:horsesi by pulling back ..had so retardedl thepi o gress of the canoe that they let go From, of the halters and the horses turned around and swam back. ^ “After all things were made ready .. the march began. Mrs. Atherton being unable to walk, was Put UP°^ t:he old mare with their beds and bedding for a saddle. They had not gone far before Date,^fU

Efe*'-i * - ABLE CALVI& PARSONS MAKES tion and of the face. He gave thanks A PEW REMARKS—FINE AD¬ for the defense our fathers made for the privilege of manhood, for the vic¬ DRESS BY FRANCIS W. HALSEY tory they had and for the establish¬ OF NEW YORK CITY—POEM BY ment of this nation. Alluding to the GEORGE CORONWAY—MUSIC BY present crisis he thanked God for the victories which had thus far crowned THE BAND, THE DR. MASON our arms, in helping the downtrodden GLEE CLUB AND ORCHESTRA. of another nation to enjoy the liberty which we possess. God’s blessing was The annual commemorative exercises asked upon our brave volunteers at at Wyoming Monument were held yes¬ the present fearful front of battle in terday, under most successful auspices Cuba. The prayer of Dr. Giffin was It had been feared that the holding of full of earnest and stirring patriotic them on the Fourth would result in a petition. decreased attendance, owing to other attractions at Wilkes-Barre and Pitls- MR. PARSON’S REMARKS. ton, but the fear was groundless and Calvin Parsons, the venerable presi¬ th4;£.e were fully 1,000 persons present dent, was called on and made a few The monument was decked all around remarks expressive of his pleasure at with flags and along the sides of its being able to meet again at the monu¬ base were vases of roses. Floating ment, even though in weakness. He from the staff was the Stars and was glad the exercises at the monu¬ stripes. The platform was also decor- ment had not been lost sight of in the ited. Fans were distributed and there celebrations of Independence Day. He fvas a plentiful supply of cool water paid a tribute to the ladies—God bless The unusually ample seating facilities them—for their faithful interest in were all overtaxed and many sought building up this monument movement. :he shade of the nearby trees within He said he was admonished day by me enclosure. flay that this was not his abiding Through the thoughtfulness of the place. He hoped' the present war might Wyoming firemen the dusty roadway speedily end. He alluded to the battle ind the grpunds had been thoroughly of Wyoming, fought with a few rude .us adding to the comfort weapons compared to those now em¬ >f the occasion. All arrangements had ployed. He feared he would not be seen so thoroughly made that there was here a year hence and he would say, as 10 hitch anywhere and the people ap¬ did Charles Dorrance on the occasion peared delighted with the up-to-date of his last appearance, prepare to meet ' maracter of the exercises. The big in that better world. :anvas furnished grateful shade. The The poem of the day was by George nusic of Alexander’s Band was stirring Coronway, one of Wilkes-Barre’s sweet ind thoroughly appreciated. The selec- singers and a representative of the .lons were interspersed throughout the toiling classes. It was as follows and ;Xe^lses‘ °ne of the pieces sung was elicited warm applause: iy Mr. Gerrish of Boston, a friend and Columbia, our country unmatched in .ormer organist of Rev. Dr. H. L Jones thy glory, d was as follows: Our hearts with devotion cling ever fling out the glorious Stars and Stripes to thee; Against the azure blue; ’ Thy name is immortal in song and in The emblem of our liberty. story, Secured by patriots true, And millions adore thee, fair land of from Eastern coast to Western sea; the free. [from pole to tropic clime; To-day, O, Columbia, with gladness we er mountain, river, lake, ’and lea. greet tl^ee— It e er shall wave sublime For thee, bur loved country, we’ll reat God of nations! Thee we pray, conquer or die. That nought our flag may harm; The mouth of our cannon with loud voice shall welcome With Th6 lan,1 °’er whlch u waves, With Thme all powerful arm. The birthday of freedom—the Fourth The Dr Mason Glee Club was pres¬ of July; ent, nearly fifty strong; and under the The proud day of freedom, the sweet eadership of John Lloyd Evans led the day of freedom, the loved day of "Th? Star Spangled Bam freedom—the Fourth of July. ’ America and other patriotic lymns in fine style. They also sang Columbia, thou fairest and greatest of >ome of their own pieces, such as “Com? nations, May joy be thy portion and honor tehS0lnhArms!, a5& “Peace t0 the souls vainahih °®s‘« c Their Presence was a thy aim; May glory perch ever upon thy loved Sated ® acqmsltlon and much appre- banner— °wi^to his bein& somewhat de- No tyrant or traitor shall tarnish its by the heat> the president, Cal- fame. vin Parsons, turned over the charge of To-day, O, Columbia, with true hearts the exercises to Benjamin Dorrance, we’ell greet thee—‘ !?°iat‘he clole made a really thrilling For thee, our loved country, we’ll conquer or die. duration SPe6Ch o£ about three minutes With music melodious, a welcome most 1,TT^®J:>pening' Prayer was by Rev C glorious, M. Griffin, D. D., of Scranton. Pie gave We’ll give to thy birthday—the Fourth thanks for such a land as America and of July. for such a combination of effort to The proud day of freedom, the sweet bring about the well being of the na¬ day of freedom, the loved day of freedom—the Fourth of July.

. £t> ' is an enthusiastic student of American P, fairest Wyoming, loved home of my history and he made a most excellent childhood, . • „ __ impression. He was at times inter¬ What fond recollections thy name rupted by applause. He devoted con¬ . doth recall,— . . siderable attention to Brant and show¬ The days, happy days, that 1 spent m ed that while he was at times a savage, thy wildwood he yet was an educated gentleman, And watched in the springtime thy having the English nobility for his com¬ cataract’s fall; . panions. Mr. Halsey paid a tribute to Their memory I treasure, it stih brings the Iroquois Indians and showed that me pleasure To think of those moments in sweet long ago ; When from thy proud summits, tny loftiest limits, I'd gaze on thy beauty, thy glory be-

O fairest Wyoming’. O, dearest Wyo¬ ming! My fondest Wyoming! My joy arid my pride! b

Enchanted I’d sit in the shade of thy bowers, „ , , Inhaling the rich, scented breeze of thy hills, 1 Made sweet with the breath of thy wild, fragrant flowers, _ And swelled with the sounds of my murmuring rills. Forget thee, I’ll never, my hearts longing ever . , . | To visit again thy historical grounds. To roam through thy wildwood, as o.t in my childhood. And view from thy hillside thy diamond dU3t mounds. O, fairest Wyoming! O. deafest Wyoming! My fondest Wyoming, xby joy and my home. j 0-lovely Wyoming, so famed for IKy" FRANCIS W. beauty, although they were arrayed against The deeds of thy sons glow in fable the colonies and in one of their forays and song; destroyed Wyoming, they yet uncon¬ Our fathers they fell on the threshold sciously rendered an inestimable ser¬ of duty, vice by becoming allies of the English Defending their home from oppression rather than of the French and thus and wrong. helped make America. Anglo-Saxon Their valor we’ll cherish, their name rather than Latin. Mr. Halsey gave shall not perish— expression to many patriotic utter¬ For love shall keep guard o’er their ances that stirred his hearers to great fond, honor’d grave. enthusiasm. He was an ardent and The long, future ages, on history’s forcible advocate of an Anglo-Amer¬ pages. ican alliance and struck a popular Shall read of the worth of the true : chord in the audience. and the brave! Mr. Halsey mentioned that he was O, fairest Wyoming! O, dearest Wyoming! My fondest Wyoming, present at the Wyoming centennial of 1878 in the capacity of correspondent our joy and our home. for the New York Tribune. Here is a portion of what he said: Loved valley, the days of thy deep tribulation MR. HALSEY’S ADDRESS. Have gone, and we trust, to return Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen: never more; The blessings, the comforts now in our It is a rare privilege and one attended possession. by much honor—this privilege of We owe to the worth of thy patriots speaking to this audience, in this place, on this memorable day. Stranger that of yore. • j The wrongs they encountered, the ills I am to most of you, being neither a native of this State nor a citizen of it, which they suffered— w. Their courage in danger, their the land in which I was born and rear¬ ed, in one sense, is like your own land; bravery in fight— I Why, then, should we wonder that our | it also is a land watered by the Sus- I qnehanna. Far distant from this spot hearts grow fonder Each year for the brave who thus j it lies, high up among the hills of New j York, forty miles only from that died for the right? j In fairest Wyoming, in dearest | Otsego Lake, in which this river takes Wyoming, in lovely Wyoming— its source and over which the genius of Cooper has thrown the unrivaled j our pride and our home. spell of his romances. ADDRESS OF THE DAY. How wonderful a thing a river is. The address of the day was by Mr. Most other objects in nature change. Francis W. Halsey, of the editorial stab Towns and cities cover fields and creep of the New York Times, and was a up the hillsides. Railways make new splendid historical study. Mr. Halsey | lines in the landscape. Forests are been an essentially neutral stand by the,' Indians. In this war the wisest cut away from the mountains, ana in I course for the Indians would unques¬ their places are seen fields of grain and tionably have been a state of perman- ‘ happy homes. But the river flows on ent neutrality. They had nothing to I from age to age, the same yesterday, | gain by the war, but everything to lose. to-day and forever. The Susquehanna In its results they did, indeed, lose flows to-day as when the forest crept ! everything. But strict neutrality to i down to its borders, when the only these Indians was lnmossibie. Of all' sounds above it were made by the things' they loved War the most. It was | cries of birds, and when over its shin¬ their trade, their accomplishment, their ing surface the Indian’s bark canoe delight—in their eyes the fountain of pursued its silent way. The Susque¬ all things honorable and glorious. hanna here in Wyoming is like the Their long alliance with the English Susquehanna I knew in childhood. It against the French of Canada had is the same winding, shallow, island- made their course, once the issue with studded stream that gladdens every the colonies -was clearly forced upon eye that once has known it and then their sympathies, only too obvious. comes back to see its face again. This war of the child America with its But there are far weightier mother England they could not com¬ reasons why, on this occasion, prehend. Taxation without representa¬ memories of the head waters tion was beyond their understanding. of this stream may properly be They saw nothing patriotic in White called to mind for an audience in the men who disguised themselves as In¬ Wyoming Valley. The tragedy which dians and cast -tea into Boston Harbor, you celebrate each year with so much Patriots who defied British soldiers in diligence, devotion and honor formed the streets of New York and Boston the most mournful part of a -whole reminded them of the French of Can¬ series of border wars between Indians ada, who in the older wars had stormed and white men, which gave to Penn¬ English forts on the northern frontier; sylvania and New York a Revolution¬ they engaged in war with the King of ary distinction shared by no ether England, and the king was the red State. Massachusetts had her Con¬ man’s powerful friend, who lived across cord, her Lexington, her Bunker Hill; “the great lake.” New Jersey her Princeton and Tren¬ It must be said that when finally the ton; the Southern States their battle¬ great body of the Iroquois Indians cast fields, but Pennsylvania and New York, their lot definitely with George III they alone among the States, in addition to pursued an honorable course; they kept having their Brandywine and German¬ an ancient covenant chain. As the war town, their Saratoga and Arnold’s closed and their wide domain, among treason, contended with the stealthiest whose streams and forests for ages their and most dangerous of all the foes of race had found a home, passed forever that time—the red man of the forest, from their control, they might have who attacked old men, women and said with a pride more just than the children and barbarously slaughtered pride of Francis I, after the battle of them. Foremost as they are to-day Pavia; “All is lost save honor.” among the States Pennsylvania and “No doubt longer exists as to where New York 120 years ago shared to- i responsibility lies for the employment i gether and bore alone this, burden of of the Indians in this war. It was the border forage and frightful massacre. English ministry which employed them. It is altogether fitting that we should Joseph Brant, going to England in 1776, seek to understand why this was the on other business—to secure redress for case. Causes there certainly were, the wrongs of his Mohawk Indians, and they are easily understood. Not who had been defrauded of their lands to mere accident were due these border —was personally urged to aid the king’s wars. Other frontiers had their In¬ cause. The Mohawks were to have jus¬ dians, and yet escaped their attacks.' tice done them with their lands after Even the frontiers of Pennsylvania and the war; meanwhile they were to fight New York escaped them until the for the king. Brant’s negotiations were Revolution was well on its way. The held with Lord George Germaine, a war had been more than three years member of Lord North’s cabinet, di¬ in progress when massacre darkened i rectly charged with the conduct of the this valley. The centre of Conflict had war. On Germaine’s shoulders, more passed away from New- England; it had than on the shoulders of any other passed away from New York; New Englishman, more on him than on any Jersey had been saved and Pennsyl¬ American Tory, rests the indelible stain vania saved; Bourgoyne had surren¬ of the employment of the Iroquois In¬ dered, and George III, in a hopeless dians in this war of England with her effort to save something from the im- colonies. Only in late years have the ; pending ruin of his cause, had trans- full details of those negotiations been ! ferred the conflict to the South,, where published, but they were fully under¬ j the remainder of it was to be fought stood in England a century and a quar¬ ; out—in Virginia, Georgia and South ter ago. Lord Chatham, in the House Carolina. of Lords, gave memorable voice to them Why, then, these border wars? In in that famous speech in which he one short sentence the essential fact gained the full height of his unrivaled may be disclosed—the ministers of eloquence when he cried: “Who is the George III, now at last, had won over man, my lords, who in addition to the the Indians to their cause. For three disgrace and mischief of this war has years they had tried in vain to- win dared to authorize and associate to our them over. Again and again had coun¬ arms the tomahawk and the scalping cils been held on both sides—the In¬ knife of the savage, to call into civilizedCl dians with the English, tije Indians alliance the wild, and inhuman denizen with the Americans—and the result had of the woods; tfc delegate to th®J^®rc' less Indians the defense jof disputedi| As i read the history of those times, rights ana to wage the horror "‘of Tils* we have in this battle of Oriskany—one barbarous warfare against our breth¬ of the decisive conflicts of the revolu¬ ren? My lords, their enormities cry tion, leading as it did to the surrender aloud for redress and punishment.” 'of Burgoyne—the primary cause of the “The defense of disputed rights,” massacre of Wyoming, the massacre of : Chatham called this war. Historians Cherry Valley, and all the lengthened now understand that these disputed | trail of blood which converted a smiling rights were not alone the rights of Eng- i and prosperous frontier into a barren lishmen settled in America, but the • I land of desolation. Nowhere in all the rights of Englishmen living at home. American colonies was greater misery The autocratic personal government of wrought. Tryon County alone, a large George III was not alone a stumbling- j section of New York State, counted up block to progress in America. It was 12,000 farms which had ceased to be cul- an issue vital to humanity in England j tivated. Two-thirds of its population herself. Lord Chatham spoke for his had died or fled, and among those who ! countrymen in the British Isles not less remained were 300 widows and 2,000 or¬ than for his kinsmen in the new •world. phans. It is a record of battles in the And when across this river, in that open, battles at ambush, robbery and populous and thriving city which is arson, massacre and child murder, ex¬ the pride of the Wyoming Valley, we tending from the spot where we now ; see perpetuated the names of John are to the north and east beyond the Wilkes and Isaac Barre, we are re- ' Mohawk Valley. minded of men who, like Chatham, The long-exploded story that Brant nobly served the same cause of popular had any part in these Wyoming horrors rights in their own land. cannot find its parallel in the massacre It is still more true that George of Cherry Valley. If Brant had no j Washington, in his support of popular share whatever, in Wyoming’s day of rights on American soil, fought also ! blood, he did participate in the horrors the battles of the English people. Not of Cherry Valley. But he was not the of one land simply was he the hero; bad chief in that Northern massacre. not in one world alone did he become This bad eminence belongs to a Seneca a founder of free institutions, but in warrior, Hiokatoo, a veteran of the old | two lands and two worlds. On the ' French war, where he had survived the banks of the Potomac we have raised defeat of Braddock, and had burned his to his memory the tallest shaft in all prisoners alive. At Cherry Valley Hio¬ our territory. Well might a monument katoo killed Infants outright. His repu¬ equally imposing be set up in ever¬ tation for supreme ferocity was com¬ lasting honor of him on the banks of pletely' upheld. Brant’s influence was an the river Thames. influence of restraint. H'iokatoo's char- i On his return from England Brant acter was a strange compound of fero- j joined the English forces. But for a II city and nobility. His wife was a cap¬ I time all that he and the Tories could tive white woman from Pennsylvania j do failed to produce armed Indian con¬ Mary Jemison by name. She spent flict. Not until the summer of 1777 was forty years with him, and afterward anything accomplished to organize the wrote her memoirs, in which she de¬ Indians in actual warfare against the clared that, with all his ferocity Hio¬ settlers. In that year a council was katoo displayed in war, he had uni¬ held in Oswego, where the Jndians formly treated her with tenderness; he were assured that the king would had never offered her an insult. never see them want for food and cloth¬ As the master spirit of your tragedy ing. They were lavishly supplied with was John Butler, so was the master presents, were promised a bounty on fiend of the Cherry Valley massacre every scalp they could take, and were John Butler’s son, Walter N.—one of told that rum would be as plentiful as those Tories of whom Brant said they water in Lake Ontario—-an awful temp¬ were more savage than the savages tation to an Indian. When Burgoyne themselves. But no such appropriate was preparing his descent from the1 death came to John as came to Walter North they were invited to Fort Schuy¬ Bate In October, 1782, Walter died near 1 ler, now Rome, Oneida County, N. Y., Herkimer, and an Indian struck the where they would have an opportunity blow. Pursued on horseback across a to sit by and smoke their pipes while stream, Butler turned and defied his they saw the British “whip the rebels.” Pursuers, thinking he was safe. But In an evil hoar the Indians yielded, the Indian, who was friendly to the and the result was that under Brant's Americans, fired a well directed shot leadership they joined the Tories and . vhich caused him to fall from his horse, pressed on to the field of Oriskany, i The Indian then rushed across the where they met Gen. Herkimer and his stream, tomahawk in hand, and as frontier militia. One of the fiercest and Butler begged for mercy the Indian most savage of all battles was Oris¬ shouted “Sherry Valley, remember kany. In a dark ravine old neighbors, Sherry Valley,” and'smoke Butler dead now become deadly enemies, fought with his tomahawk. John Butler’s evil- with Indians on slippery, marshy spent life ended less fitly. He lived out ground, knives and bayonets in hand, his remaining days, and, dying in Can¬ 1,500 men in a wild struggle, and great ada, lies buried there in a peaceful was the slaughter. The Indians retired churchyard. from this battle completely overthrown.1 I know not if the massacre of Wyo¬ Returning to their villages with doleful ming was celebrated as was the Cherry 1 shrieks and yells at their losses, their Valley massacre, but most likely it was : j one ambition now was to attack the On their way to Niagara the Indians 1 frontier settlements. Forward for the stopped near the site of Geneva. With a next five years they went every sunr their faces ancT parts'bfWfiefir‘bodies mer to devastate the settlements in the' hideously painted, they gathered around f='”"iiphanna, Mohawk and Schoharie a ^reat council fire in the presence of valleys. thoir prisoners, bore in. triumphs the i scllps they had take.i, sounded the war whoop, uttered the scalp yel1, and brandished their knives and war clubs closin°- the scene with the festival or tKhite dog. The dog's entrails were burned, the carcass roasted and the fleTherethad been causes then for these border wars. Men of our own Anglo- Saxon race—Englishmen, blind follow¬ ers of the hopeless reactionary cause of George III, trapped the Indians into making them-induced them to go Fort Schuyler, to meet the ArfV« +h^^it- at Oriskany, and there to tastethebit terness of defeat, and to nourish that terrible revenge Possible only to th heart of an Indian. That thirst on aroused in an Indian seldom ever has FIFTY SECOND been assuaged. Wyoming^ d d assuage it; nor did Cherry a _ • hjle three years longer it went on. , HOLDS ITS ANNUAL REUNION: the war lasted the red man applied the torch and the tomahawk wherever he IN THE CITY TO-DAY. found a settlement. Gen Sullivan in retaliation, passed throughthe-Seneca country and destroyed more than forty Indian villages, some of which showed Many Veterans and Their Wives Ini astonishing signs of cl1vlli!La^!°^ houses their skillfully planned frame houses Attendance — The Meetings to I blooming gardens, thriving orchar and extensive cornfields. It was a rn««lnde With a Camp Fire To- most drastic punisnment that Sullivan inflicted. No destruction of nojnes among the settlers of equal magnitud

had been wrought by^^‘frb their The eleventh nual reunion of the 1 But even Sullivan did not Purb .v?®* -second Pennsylvania Volunteers terrible spirit of revenge. More bitter than ever the Indians now became. is being held in this city to-day and Again and again they descended upon as a result scores of comrades wh thp frontier settlements. Block houses fought valiantly through the civil war have once more met to recount v became the only safe ,reffu|®th°gexes defenseless and unarmed of both sexes. stories and to cement more firmly th Farmers organized themselves m ties of friendship formed during those ^companies to work each other s fields. trying times. Fhe reunion is being Held I They kept their rifles near at hand, and in Conyngham Post Memorial Hall and appointed scouts to watch for the: ap will continue this evening. It will con proach of the stealthy enemy. Join elude with the camp fire, akvays an im¬ fn” With the Tories in the autumn of portant part of a veteran s reunion. The 1781, a combined force of ’the morning was taken up with rei'istration Indians and white ®en came into the upper Susquehanna Valley and passea -r: onPto the Mohawk, where, every vestige 'of civilization that remained on the Paniedd!brrieyeweTeVgreettd by ThTcom- l frontier was laid waste. history rades*2 already present and soon groups When the war was over the history were formed ail about the of the Indian virtually closed. Iheir many a story of old time war days was losses had in truth, been far greater swapped. The late war with Spamiw ■ tuon those of the frontiersmen. The freelv discussed and the vets an y our army and navy have done wonders are deserving of great praise^ The men were unanimous m declan n tardS government has kept pace with and years had dwelt their father's, they were rather out-distanced the y»r never again to burn their c0"nci1 hres' matter of advancement in all that per England virtually abandoned them to tains to warfare. They agreed no such aq that achieved hv uewe> ui Ers affi.'ss rrs Sampson and" Schley could have been SMS'* P When Major Bennard^alled the meet in^'to ordfr at 2 o’clock this afternoon the following answered to roll ca. 1. a pitiful state for men who had SvL tfleir lives and fortunes eyery- fhmg in the world that they had, for a fausi theirhOwn, ethe -use^fjn iIVT' Tavlor 'William Ward. W. G. Mill Jay1 or o‘i carman, John whom^they were keeping an ancient ham. S. W. Taylor, r. GaVitt. M. covenant* chain. All, indeed, had been 6'coitt, John J. M'uler, or- y Ranker B. Allen, Wm «. Furman. .A. Rmker, ^gark'as^outlook m»med. two men Thomas Griffiths. '• Ru l] ^ s El- Tiffany. Lieut. Cha*. Russell. *. Sfnf rWwaSd^r6 anT «ss fugitives. One of these was Washing¬ ton; the other was Brant. John. F. Mi) Her. Geo Ape L. .Kenn«r«, iAsa H. Frear. ©. -A. Dei Wolff. J. B.Max- Rut on the bright side of the picture V-’. Olley, T. D. Ransome, Jos. is -cast a dark shadow o-f -great grief McCracken. W. C. May. >7. 'S. Taylor ! iUniss and death of so many Charles E. Britten George H. Knight lef« twrave b0J’s 'vho in robust health John Caterson. Andrew Singer. Lean- tht ha'PPy homes to battle against Jer Overpeck. B. K. Gustin. James W.- the inhuman treatment of Spain to- ! E-vans, Edward Miller, C. E. Ball, Jos¬ wards t-he long suffering Cubans—we eph A. Shiner, Lieut. A. H. Rush, W. fndPfHer71 can bestow. They well deserved thony Long, David Baker, W. M. Smith, the grand reception given them Whic Capt. J. B. Fish. Rev. M. D. Fuller,’ W.. H. Harris, -EdKva-rd Howell. Patrick to‘rZr,?*; manj families haf. reminds us of the PTorrigan. S. B. ’Williams.. William J. (privations and suffering endured hv l-ones, John S. Compton, N. C. Lan-ing our regiment in ’6-l-’65. -more especiaPy iVilliiam -A. M'dCliave, C. E, -Mbris-on, Al- in the swamps of the Ohickahomlnv Da. Dolpih', EJimund Jones-, Oliver C r-’antrwVunts *n tile History of the the -assurance that -the North and South K zss? ttey*cM * is -now more -firmly united than ever under one flag. Liberty, freedom and PennaSwilS' ^PhriL1862~104th and 52d humanity -will be -protected by -our great N T Vois! Malne- 56th and 100th nation, forever. Wiiiamsburg, -May 5th, 1862—104th, and Truly the wisdom and patriotism of President McKinley and his advisers 100t.h N.nY. fvols! llth Ma1ne' B6th and has astonished -t-h-e world. We have followed -the events -of the past year I andh59aap°^iny’ May 19th- 1862—104th with especial interest, reioicing over N T. V-ois-!!111' S" llth Maine’ 5Sth victories won 'by the many -brave hero eg ^Qf our army -and navy. “Seven Pines” or Fair Oaks, May 31. with relief and felt secure, when it 1862—104th and 52d Penna. Vols., 11th rapidly ran through the army that Maine, 56th and 100th N. T. S. Vols. "Naglee’s Brigade had destroyed thq ■Railroad and Bottoms Bridges. June bridges and stood night and day. for 27 and 28, 1862'—104th and 52d Penna. three days, in the middle of the Chick- Vols., 11th Maine, 56th and 100th N. Y. ahominy successfully and continually S. Vols. resisting its passage.” White Oak Swamp Bridge, June 30, Again, on the folowing day, you held 1862—104th and 52d Penna. Vols., 11th a post of the greatest- importance and Maine, 56th and 100th N Y. .S, Vols. danger; at the White Oak Swamp the Carter’s Hill, July 2, 1862—104th and most determined efforts of the enemy tol 52d Penna Vols., 11th M.-.ine, 56th and' cross the bridge in pursuit of. our army .. 100th N. Y. S. Vols. were thwarted by our artillery, and you Matihews County, Nov. 22, 1862—11th stood for ten hours supporting it, quiet, , spectators of the most terrific cannon-fa Maine, 52d Penna. Vols., Ind. Bat. N. ade, while other regiments were only Y. Vols. t Gloucester, Virginia, Dec. 14, 1862'— kept in place by being ordered back . when they approached y.our line. Re- £ 52d Penna. 11th Maine, 56th and 100th treating all night, you stood ready 'n N. Y. S. Vols. position on the following day, expect-! Yorktown, August 17 to 'Dec. 31, 1862 • I in a? to he ordered to take part in thb' —104th and 52d Penna. Vols., 11th battle at Malvern Hill. laine, 66th, 81st, 38th, 100th N. Y. and Retreating again all night, at Carter Ind. Batt. N. Y. Vols. Hill on the 2d of Juiy, you stood by] Fhe General lately commanding the I the artillery and wagon train, and wb-ui Brigade most happily takes ftiis occa¬ all expected it would be destroyed, you sion to congratulate the officers and ■ brought it safely to Harrison's Land soldiers with whom he has been so inti¬ ing. mately associated. i During December you destroyed a While...— memory lasts,-’ it will continual--| i dozen large salt works in Mathews|- |Y jrec,ur. J?_ he_ d.e?rila_t.,°^ I 1 county, Virginia, and drove the Rang- and danger and blood and battle i ers from that Gloucester, Middlesex, an.i , through which you have passed, and King and Queen counties, eapturec you will remember yo-ur experience and large herds intended for t.ne rebel army, discontent, and then your discipline] ] and destroyed all their barracks, stablest and friendly happy affiliation. i and stores. , . All will remember with regret the] /. t yovitstown, from August to tna. deadly effects of the swam'ps before] i end of December, you have restored the Yonkstown. ’ works at that place and Gloucester■ You were the first in the advance ! Point, and they are by your labor renew ■ upon Wiliamsburgh, and when ordered i ered strong and defensible. by General McClellan to support Gen. ; Thus is yours the honor of having Hancock, the enemy gave up the con¬ I been the first to pass and the last tel test. I leave the Chickahominy, and while you On the 16th of May, at Bottoms led tile advance from this memorable Bridge, you waded waist deep in the rciqee to ’■•'•ar 'Richmond, you were t..e| swamps of the Ohickahominy, you drove last in the retreating column, when ■ away the enemy and were the first to after seven days’ constant * h ing u cross that stream. reached a place of security..a. 1 reu.JUT On the 23d, 170 of your number made . Harrison’s Landing. , a reconnoissance from Bottoms Bridge Your descendants for generations will to the James river, near Drury’s Bluff, boast of the gallant conduct of the reg¬ and returned bringing valuable inf or-1' iments to- v, fl.cn you belong, and when mation. all are laid in the dust, history wili| On the 24t)h. 26th and 26th, after other still proclaim the glorious deeds per troops had failed, you made the gallant formed by you. dating reconnoissance of the Sever Go on! “The truth is mighty and will Pines, driving the superior forces of prevail.” Pretenders, for a time, may Gen. Stuart from Bottoms Bridge to rob you of your just deserts, but as within four and a half miles of Rich¬ you have experienced, their evil repoit mond, the position nearest that city will certainly be exposed; for your ever occupied by our troops. many friends at home, ever watchtui On the 30st day of May, at “Fair! of and identified with your reputation, ! Oaks,” or “Seven Pines,” occupying the will see that justice shall be done. above advanced position, your brigade jy new page in your history is about made the most desperate, bloody, obsti to be written, let it be still more biil- nate fight of the war, and while w liant than that already known. Your mourn the loss of one-half of our com-| past good conduct has won the warm¬ rades in arms, you have the consola est esteem and confidence of your late tion of knowing that by their heroic Brigade Commander; he has no appre¬ sacrifice and your stubborn resistance, hensions for the future. you saved the Army of the Potomac By command of T „,-,T nn from great disaster. Brig. Gen. HENRY M. NAGLES, On the 27th. 28th and 28th of June, Commanding Division. the rebel Gen. Jackson hurled his im¬ GEO. H. JOHNSON. mense force suddenly upon our right Captain and A. A. U. and passed that flank of the army \t the time General Naglee issued the and all turned with extreme solicitude above order the Fifty-second Regiment towardn the rear at Bottoms Bridge, was on its way from Fortress Monroe to which, if crossed, would result in irre¬ Port Royal, S. C. In this new field it trievable ruin; and it should be a source was placed under new Generals, serving of great pride and satisfaction in the . -if Port Royal and Beaufort, under G?n- future to remember that all this intense i erals Foster and Hunter, and at anxiety was dispelled, and all breathed i charleston under Generals Gilmore and ... —.. ~~ ***!#! "I* CREEK DEDICATED WITH AP¬ Terry. During the siege of Charleston it took an active and prominent part PROPRIATE CEREMONIES — from the beginning to the end, serving MISS BRUNDAGE MAKES AN in the land attack ui ae city by way of James -inland; the siege and capture ADDRESS FULL OF VALUABLE of Fort Wagner, on Morris Island; the HISTORICAL DATA — GUESTS ‘‘boat infantry” service in Charleston ENTERTAINED AT MOKWA INN Harbor;' the night attack upon Fort Johnson (crossing the harbor in boats BY ALBERT LEWIS — THOSE in the night and attaching the fort at WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE daylight), where all who landed were either killed, wounded or captured, Col¬ CEREMONIES. onel Hoyt and Lieutenant Colonel Con- yngham (who led the attack) being Yesterday afternoon a large delega¬ among the captured, and Lieutenant tion of the members of the Wilkes- Bunyan (Acting Adjutant) among the Barre branch of the Pennsylvania So¬ killed. Afterward, under Major Hen- ciety of the Colonial Dames of America, nessy, the regiment was first to enter Daughters of the Revolution and the Charleston city at its fall, the Major Sons of the Revolution, as guests of raising the stars and stripes upon the the former society, dedicated the stone ruined ramparts of Fort Sumter before and tablet to mark the bridge erected entering the city, February, 1885. This by Gen. John Sullivan over Ten Mile Run, near the village of Bear Creek, flag being the first United States colors during his famous march against the raised on the fort a (her Major Ander¬ Six Nations. The exercises were of a son took down bis flag in 1861, is now highly interesting character, and the in possession of the Survivors’ Associ¬ afternoon was one so' full of pleasant ation. From Charleston the regiment engaged in an expedition to Santee river, incidents that it will long be remem¬ bered. then joined Sherman’s army in its final A large party of those who attended Carolina campaign, being attached to left on a special car attached to the Ruger’s Second Division. Cox’s twenty- regular Lehigh Valley train leaving at third Corps, Army of Ohio, commanded 1:10 and arrived at Bear Creek about by General Schofield. In this final cam¬ 2:30. Quite a large number also drove paign the regiment was under command over the mountain roads from this city of Colonel John B. Oonyngham, who and Glen Summit. The visitors were had but lately been exchanged from met by Albert Lewis and were con¬ Libby Prison, and, coming back as Col¬ ducted to Mokwa Inn, where an elabor¬ onel, led us under Sherman until the ate and tasty lunch had been prepared rebel army of General Joe Johnson laid for them. The interior of the inn was down its arms at Greensboro, North handsomely decorated with the Carolina, shortly after Lee’s surrender autumn foliage, and ferns and wild at Appamattox. The regiment remained ; flowers graced the tables. It was a in the field until July 12, 1865, when it pretty affair and the guests were rife was mustered out at Salisbury, N. C-, in their praise of the generosity of 'having a record of nearly four years’ their host, who' was never yet known continuous service by land and by sea, to do anything in a half-hearted way. under McClellan and Foster and Gil¬ After the collation the visitors were more and Terry, and finally at the clos¬ taken in cai-riages to the site of the ing scene under the world-renowned bridge, about an eighth of a mile from Sherman—a record of which it may well the inn. Here benches had been be proud. placed on both sides of the roadway and the Speaker’s stand alongside the stone and tablet was adorned with American flags and evergreen. Over the roadwy floated a handsome Amer¬ ican flag. From, Miss Bessie Loveland of Kingston, chairman of the Wilkes-Barre branch of Colonial Dames of America, presided and the exercises were opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. F. B. Hodge of the First Presbyteiian Church. Miss Hannah P. James was intro¬ Date, / 3 / Zftj

Canada as ile says, “to oppose our course, the chief object of our interest ! to-day. passing from] the Mohawk into the river Iroquois, through the lakes.” He bigs The India is enlisted against the I Colonists by the English with promises I Hoo^f hSUffirfnKly Large number of ot plunder, i nd moved by their own I Ps 3e se|it by the Cohoes country to puzzle arid perplex them,” and keep bitter hatred;of those who had wrested hem in Canada, “till the real intention trom them their happy hunting grounds, were taking advantage of the thlrnl'11’>^32Ch wiI1 baPPen as soon as defenseless state of the frontier to tViQthe ^h,o,, m b°u, y °f tbe a-iiuyarmy is IOUlldfound on fall on the settlements. Gen. Wash¬ oblervl ^Uh^anna;” ‘'Besides’ let me ington being directed by the Con¬ continues. “that as the tinental Congress to adopt some meas¬ winwui tyhave iCtthehadVanCeS enemy onby theall Mohawksides it ures to punish their atrocities, planned would be bad policy as well as contrary an expedition against the Five Na- to every military rule, to suffer that I tions Mohawks, Senecas, Oneidas party t° be the smallest.” He asks thtt Cayugas and Onondagas—-to be pushed,’ it events warranted, against Canada by la Ld°t°hm tehSent by the Susquehan- na and that the party by the Mohawk way or Niagara, a fort whence the In¬ should number 4,000 VK dians drew their supplies.” The com- In a letter to Gen. Washington within *hls expedition Washington the next day he says: “The variety of offered to Gen. Gates, who declined it, whereupon Washington offered it to Peaaslinl I lf ,1 Urged yesterday, Vfor pas^iHg^ with the main body up the Gen. John Sullivan, who with the true Mohawk River, and down by Wood msuncts of the soldier, accepted it and Creek to the Cayuga Lake still have f , u i V? siicnce the public criticism their weight in my mind, but as Gen which followed the campaign. The ex¬ Schuyler writes that they cannot be pedition was a signal success, resulting supplied with provisions, the plan must in breaking the power of the Six Na¬ be given up, and that of passing with tions as an ally of Great Britain. It was conducted by Washington’s express adopted” °dy UP the ®usquMianna directions with all the severity of war He continually urges the necessity of —the destruction of the Indian towns’, a sufficient number of men, “good mili- crops supplies and everything that tia, if Continental troops cannot be would sustain the warlike spirit of the savages, Gen. Sullivan had been ac¬ ®Pa;edv f°r “tbis expedition is under¬ taken, to destroy these Indian nations cused by some of too great severity, and to convince others that we have it and even inhumanity, but in this he m our power to carry the war into their was but obeying instructions from his country whenever they commence hos- ^Penor °fflcer,l ch°°sing rather to be tihties Should we fail in the attempt blamed, than that a shadow should fall the Indians will derive confidence from Ohhis well beloved Washington. ^uandr€row more insolent than before. s ,described as corpulent, Inus I have submitted my sentiment to 5 feet 9 inches in height, with a swarthy your excellency and trust my reason¬ ruriv hi10v off hy black eyes and ing will prove that 3,000 good and effec¬ £entLbv, k hair‘ Ordinarily mild and tive men at least, will be necessary to gentle he was as a storm in his rage march from Tioga, exclusive of fh^o u itI\,eXait+ed' Unpopular as a general, your excellency may direct to operate on hard to tell why, unless his being the other flank of the enemj. xu*l ‘ somewhat ostentatious in manner he did not have his own way is known would account for a portion of it He and he writes to Governor Clinton of rnn,r»0UbKe®S- vain- and he annoyed New York: “I take the liberty of com¬ Congress by ms complaints, but it vet municating to you in confidence that I nn?iln£ tG be shown that they ought am to have the honor of commanding not to have been annoyed. an expedition against the Six Nations His correspondence with Gen Wash¬ of Indians.” He tells Governor Clinton ington, President Bled and the quarter! that the main body of the army will masters department proves that he move up the Susquehanna to Tioga- pared no efforts to carry outvv ith dis- the York troop to Canajoharie, take ^atch and thoroughness the duties as- batteau across land into Otsego Lake w°nv blni. Gen. Sullivan writes to down the Susquehanna to form a junc¬ Washington his observations as to the tion at Tioga with the main body. He proposed expedition, that though the submits it to the judgment of the gov¬ i number of Indians in that country ap- ernor, as the York regiments are very ! ‘“formation to be but weak, whether he does not think it j 2 000 yet underrating the number of necessary to have those regiments so vithe\Ty.-haS been a Prevailing errw far filled up by drafts as to enable them mem nf2ez leans since the commence- to force their way at ail events and to 1 could it h?l’Vaj ~as in no instance destroy on their march such Indian set¬ could it be more dangerous than in the tlements as might be near the river present intended expedition, it will be Pointing out that it is of especial im¬ necessary to consider whether there is portance to New York State to have : a Probability of the enemy being those Indians totally rooted out he more numerous than Gen. Schuyler's begs for every assistance in the power 1 tioTta tTkf tbe™” He calls aVten- of the governor toward strengthening fresh that the Tories and; the party and supplying provisions and hadhi„i„prt frS m unknown numbers j closes by asking that this letter be kept Rmw o 1 5iie partles commanded by I a profound secret. th 6r and *be leaders, and that [ Sullivan proceeded to Easton without the enemy were now possessed of in ! loss of time to expedite prepara Hons, opinion that an expedition was intend- ' but from the exhausted state of the ed against Canada by way of Lake country, supplies were not very speed- ny forthcoming. Not discouraged how- faenase^d allaTl’ tthehDA forcethat *lthevhey nmiin would omo Probably ^ 'ever he avoided or overcame the ob¬ on the 21st of July: “My duty to the stacles in his bath and his dtopatcn was public, and regard to my own reputa¬ beyond all reasonable expectation. tion compel me to state the reasons The directiohs for the conduct hf th . why this army has been so long de¬ campaign f.om the commander-m-chie , layed here without advancing into the da?ed May 3?, 1779, received- after he enemy’s country. In April last it was had published his own orders to the agreed that the army should he put in armv were mainly as follow.,. Str. motion the 15th of May and rendezvous The expedition you axe appointed to at Easton on the 20th, to proceed im¬ commauucommand is tow be directed„ t-T Tagainst theTn mediately on the expedition. The nec¬ hostile tribes of the Six Nations of In¬ essary preparations were to be made in dians, with their associates and ad¬ the quartermaster and commissary de¬ herents. The immediate object is their partments, that no delay might take total destruction and devastation, and place; success in a great measure de¬ the capture of as many persons of pending on secrecy and dispatch. I every sex and age as possible. It 'nu immediately detached parties to clear be essential to ruin their crops now in a road from Easton to Wyoming, which the ground, and prevent their planting was done in season.” The route from more.” After informing him what , Easton to Wyoming lay across the high tioops are to be employed, giving Gem range of hills dividing the Delaware from Sullivan his views as to the best plan the Susquehanna. Almost impenetrable of action and orders to proceed directly swamps lay between the ridges of these into the heart of the Indian settlements hills. A bridle path had been opened he writes: “Some fort in the1 centie o' some years before, and to make this the Indian country should be occupied passable for wagons and artillery Van with all expedition whence parties Cortlandt’s and Spencer’s regiments should he detailed to lay waste all set¬ had been detailed soon after their ar¬ tlements around, that the country may rival at Easton, the 1st of May, 1779. not be merely overrun, but destroyed. Finding the task greater than had been Gen. Sullivan is ordered to make anticipated, Colley’s regiment was sent rather than receive attacks, attended to assist them on May. 27. The best with as much shouting and noise as accounts of the making of this road possible.” If, after he has thoroughly are found in the diaries of several offi¬ destroyed their settlements, the Indians cers of these regiments. From the ad¬ should show a disposition for peace, he mirable journal of Lieut. John Harden- is to encourage it, on condition that bergh, published by the Cayuga Coun¬ they give evidence of their sincerity by ty Historical Society in 1879, under Gen. delivering up into the hands of the John A. Clark, an old and experienced Americans the most mischievous or the civil engineer, who has passed over the Tories that have joined them, and the entire Sullivan’s road, we learn that principal instigators of their past hos¬ Hardenbergh, being a civil engineer, tilities. was sent from Learns, the last house Gen. Washington tells him, that at on the road between Easton and Wyo¬ present he has no power to authorize ming, as he writes under date of May the making of any treaty of peace with 15, “to mend a road to Wyoming.” He them, but “you may agree upon the was first lieutenant in the 2d New York 0terms of one, letting them know it must Regt., which, with Col. Spencer’s New be finally ratified by Congress.” But Jersey regiment, was ordered to pre¬ Gen. Sullivan must not listen to any cede the main army and construct the overtures of peace before the total de¬ road over the mountains. They fol¬ struction of their settlements was ef¬ lowed mainly the well known Indian fected, for future security lay only in trails, one of which left Fort Penn at their inability to injure; in the distance Stroudsburg, passed through the town¬ to which they might be driven, and the ships of Pocono, Tunkhanna, Toby- terror with which the severity of the hanna, Buck, Bear Creek to Wyoming. punishment they might receive would The diary continues: impress them. Sunday, May 16.—“We continued Despatch and secrecy in the move¬ making the road.” ments of troops were urged upon him, Tuesday, 18.—“Continued working on but time was requisite to collect the the road.” army, provide food and transportation, Sunday, 23.—“Received orders to and nothing could be done that was march. * * * Struck tents, proceed¬ unknown to the enemy. Zealous to carry ed on our march, till over a creek out his orders, he appealed earnestly to ' ’ in the Great Swamp called Tack- the department for what was absolute¬ hanack, the road very bad, the ly necessary to prevent the expedition baggage could not come up; went a becoming a failure, but June and July back and mended the road and passed before the army was finally on encamped where the baggage was. the Susquehanna and in condition to In the evening Sergeant Jonas Brown move. Perhaps it was as well, however, with five men was sent off to Wyoming that they were not too precipitate, for with letters from Gen. Sullivan to Gen. one principal object was the effectual Hand.” destruction of the crops, so that the Monday, 24.—“Marched across the Six Nations should be destitute of Tackhannack and encamped on a hight. means to trouble the frontier during - * * * but continued making the road the following winter. They were able which was very bad.” to accomplish this object, Gen. Sullivan Tuesday, 25.—“Left camp standing obtaining what was necessary—though and continued making the road, built with nothing toi spare—in season to ■ a bridge and causeway at Tobehanna of 115 paces in length. i* * * Some move when the corn could be destroyed good land along the creek, the road as it ripened, and no more could be very difficult to make.” ThisTh camp is planted that year. in some iournals Rium Rriftp-n and was the same place where the of Laurel Run and Bear- Creek. The mam army encamped June 19 and sergeant continues: “Know Person called Chowder Camp, from the’com- would have thout of seein such lands mander-m-chief dining this day on as here was for such a Groth I believe chowder made of trout.” never was know, for button wood Trees Wednesday, May 2S.—"Laid still in was Eight or nine feet Through ” camp on purpose to refresh the men The journal of Lieut. Col. Henry and washing. Sergeant Brown returned Dearborn, under date of June 21, has from Wyoming.” this! entry: Saturday, 29.—“Our camp remained, finished the bridge and continued work =5™trfred What.,is caIIed the Great 7P’ proceeded 20 m. thro, a horrid on the road. * * * Gen. Sullivan ar¬ rough country. We eat breakfast at a rived at our camp.” stream called Tuckhannah. We passed At, Easton, Gen. Sullivan published the following order: other th CTlle ■*»“ the officers and soldiers under their command, for their unpar¬ suVot ?8S.« Dr- alleled exertions in clearing and repair- th!-Une 2t-~‘‘Marched at sunrise fifty- ing the road to AVyoming. He cannot thiee miles m the day. Having come help promising himself success in an so great a distance in such bad roads expedition in which he is to be honored even7n50nS/id n0t Set ln tiH Iate in the with the command of troops who give e\erung and several broke. Some left such pleasing evidence of their zeal for behind many horses tired; some died the service and manifest so strong a othei;s lost. This road to Wyoming desire to advance against the inhuman Rom Pouonc- Mt. is entirely new but murderers of their friends and country¬ will undoubtedly become public should men. that place flourish.’ u Again the diary savs: ReVT WiIIiam Rogers writes: Monday, May 31.—“The troops work¬ Monday, June 21.—'“This day we ed on the road.” Bearrhqlthr0Ughr7he GrSat SwamP and Tuesday, June 1.—“Worked on the Bear Swamp. The Great Swmap is road,” and then follows an entry under eleven or twelve miles through. Both date of June 3, “The troops did not SPS contain trees of amazing work for want of provisions.” In the 7he; r.oads in S0Iae places are same letter to Congress of July 21 from tolerable but in other places exceed¬ which I have already quoted, Gen Sul¬ ingy7ad’ ,by reason °'f which, and a livan says that the army had been so long though necessary march, three of long' delayed without advancing’ into our wagons and the carriages of two the enemy’s country by reason of the nela pieces were broken down. This scarcity and spoiled condition of the day we proceeded twenty miles, the provisions as Well as by the delays of th™?,iw£d and hungry. The road the quartermaster and commissary de- through the swamps is entirely new, partment.s in forwarding supplies. being fitted for the passage of our Hardc-nburg’s journal continues day by wagons, by Cole, Cortlandt and Spencer day with the same story of work on at the instance of the eommander-in- the road, until on Monday, June 14 he chief; the way to. Wyoming being be¬ records: “At 6 o’clock the general fore only a blind narrow path. The beat, struck tents, and marched to new road does its projectors great Wyoming and arrived there about 12 credit, and must in future be of es¬ and pitched camp.” There we will sential service to the inhabitants of leave them in the beautiful valley, their Wyoming and Easton.” tedious march over, and stretching out An interesting account by an eye wit¬ behind them the road which they had ness of the entrance of the main army rendered at least passable for the main into Wyoming is found in the delightful army, which dicl not come up till July : little manuscript in the possession of 21. The journals of men and officers in I Miss Alexander, being “Sketches of the the main army who enjoyed the fruits ! life of Hannah Gore Durkee, as told by of those whose labor of which we have herself, and written down direct from just heard, tell their impressions of V her life by her daughter.” She says: both road and country traveled over. A party was out on scout, and they Lieut. William Barton writes: found a half breed with a spy glass. June 11.—“We all proceeded on our He was sent to headquarters, where journey until we fell in with a detach¬ father was officer of the day They ment composed of several regiments gave father the glass. When Gen. which had been cutting a road through Sullivan was marching to Wilkes-Barre from Learns to Wyoming-, as theYe to drive the Indians back father watch¬ never was any before, only an old In¬ ed until he saw them come over the dian path.” mountain, and called us all to look Sergt. Moses Fellows says: through the glass, then told us we “Marched to a place called Wyowo- could go to bed.” mich; the path very good considering Dr. Jabez Campfield tells in an entry such a rough country, but a vast sight of June 14 of the march into Wyoming, of hills exceedin steep.” Those of us leaving us a pleasanter account of this ■who have ridden our wheels over that country than we find in some of the same “path" can heartily agree with other journals. He writes of Wyoming the sergeant in some points. But now, ' as a “beautiful place thro which runs thanks to those two good genii—Gen. the Susquehanna in a swift, delightful Oliver and Mr. Lewis—nowhere in the course, and is capable of great improve- State can be found such roads as those ment. The lands here are PYPPPhin^ ■

id'fertile. The river abounds >• ious fish; it if full of the’ finest 'out and pickeiel are also plenty After detailing* the maioh from , across the Great Swamp, “in ay,” he says, “we passed a sec- From, swamp, called Bear Swamp, .nrough which runs a considerable stream, called the Ten-Mile-Run, said %\jl to fall into the Schuylkill. Four miles (l) <£. ku. A from Wyoming we cross a high moun¬ tain, which will render the land car¬ riage always difficult from Easton to Bate, .O.: I this place, could the other difficulties be removed.” It is true that nothing appears in all the journals of the Sullivan march identifying this bridge over Ten-Mile-Run, the last bridge mentioned being the Brandy bridge thirty-seven AN INTERESTING PAPER. miles from Wyoming, but the Journals quoted distinctly note the passage of the army through Bear Swamp, and over the Ten-Mile-Run. In the volume Oil EAT.IY GRIST MILLS BY issued by the State of N. Y. and re¬ KGII. CHARLES-A. MINER. ferred to we find maps reproduced from those made by Lieut. Lodge who with compass and chain surveyed the route of the army from Easton over the Read at Last Evening’s Historical mountains, which while they do not of course show the site of small bridges Society Meeting—A Paper of such as the one we mark, still show :he crossing and recrossing of the Much. Local Historical Value- stream by the road {which now bears Gen. Sullivan’s name. We see by the Other Matters ©£ Interest. diaries that bridges were frequently I necessary for the passage of artillery, An excellent and most interesting pa¬ | and they would naturally have been per on The Early Grist Mills of Wy¬ • such as this, of huge trees felled and placed as stringers, crossed by other oming Valley, prepared by Hon. Charles great trees which grew so thickly about A. Miner, was read last evenng before them. If you go tq the little bridge the 'Historical Society's meeting. Owing over the Geneceda and stooping down to Mr. Miner’s indisposition the .paper look underneath you will see the huge logs still there, although in a few years was read by his son, Col. Asher Miner. they will have fallen into the water. Following is an excerpt of the paper: The pine tree growing from the surface The first settlement of white people 1 of the bridge shows at a glance its at Wyoming began in 1762 at Mill i great age, and old woodsmen tell us, i the little seed from which it sprang Creelt, within the limits of what was i must have fallen there at least that afterwards Wilkes-Barre and is now many years ago. The growth of yellow Plains township. The number of set¬ pine which marks Sullivan’s road in so tlers was small and before they could I many places, being, they say, the sec- do much more than clear some land for ' ond growth after the making of the cultivation and erect necessary log huts road, is here lacking, having been cut for dwellings they were all massacred down for mine props long ago. Last, toy the Indians, carried away into cap¬ but not least, we have the testimony tivity or driven back to their New Eng¬ of Capt. William H. Alexander, a reli¬ land homes. No attempt was made toy able and respected citizen of Wilkes- these settlers to erect a grist mill. In Barre up to the time of his death, sur¬ the absence of such a mill a corn pouL-d- veyor by profession, and a lover of er, or hominy block was used. This nature in its wild state, he showed to was the section of a tree trunk with his daughters in chilhood this bridge, one end hollowed like a howl. In this telling them the story of its building bowl the corn was placed and- then by the Revolutionary soldiers. Many pounded with a pestle hung upon a a time he roamed these hills and val¬ spring pole. In 1769 the permanent set¬ leys, talking doubtless to old men who tlement of Wyoming by the New Eng¬ had passed over the road after the landers was begun in Wilkes-Barre. In army, and learning from them many a petition to the Connecticut Assembly, things, about which the early settlers dated at Wilkes-Barre, Aug. 29, 1779, were too busy to question. and signed by a number of settlers, it is set forth that they have geen at great expense “erecting1 houses, mills stnd oth- er necessary buildings." In the New York Journal of Dec. 28. 176)9t there was published an account of the troubles at Wyoming between the Pennamites and the Yankees and reference was male to the capture of Major John Durkee while “going from the block house to view some mills they were erecting." At a town meeting heffi in Wilkes-Barre^ in September, ITO, Capt. "Wariser' (mill on Enur’ei fKTn.-’'w/thin present -bor¬ appointed to live in the block house ough of Parsons. The ns of Jehoiada near the mills, “in Older to guard ye afterwards- ran a .powder mill in con¬ mills,’’ and he was granted liberty to nection with it. It was -destroyed by select cine men to assist him as guards: an explosion. These mills, or more properly, this mill, 5. 'The -old Col. W. -Lee mill was built for there was but one structure, was at Nanticoke in 1820. •the mill erected at Mill Creek by the 6. In 1789 Elisha Delano 'built a grist Mew Englanders in the autumn of 1769 and saw mill in Hanover. and it was without doubt a saw mill. 7. As early is 1793 there was a grist No steps had been taken up to the au¬ mill in Hanover, on a,branch of Nian-ti- tumn of 1771 towards the erection in co.ke -Creek, near Dundee shaft. It be¬ [Wyoming of a grist mill. According- to longed to Nathan- Carey and afterwards [Miner’s “History of Wyoming” there [pas-sed to the Butlers, were no grist mills in Wyoming in 1771. 8.S. Prior to 1-SC-Q1309 RichardiB.vr and Israel | j “'For bread the settlers used pounded Inman of .Hanover, built a grist mill at corn. 'Dr. Sprague, who kept a board¬ Boot of Solomon’s Fall©, near -Ashley ing house, would take his horse, with as A 09. TnIn I.O-O.C1-820 Gen. TXT:-St;_William 'Ross*-r-. buiit a much wheat as he could carry, and go ■: small grist mill on Solomon’s Creek, out to the Delaware (to Coshutunk) and hear the Inman mill. get it ground. Seventy or eighty milks 10. Prior to 1812 -George Meisinger -had to mill was no trifling distance. The i mill on- -Solomon’s- 'Creek, near Ash¬ flour was kept for cakes and to be used ley. only on extraordinary occasions.” 11. -Petty’s mill, -on- Solomon’s Creek iBy 1772, the New England settlers built in 1845. were in full and complete possession of 12. Sh.up-p’s mill, Plymouth, 1812. Wyoming and then one of the first mat¬ 13. About 179'5 (Benjamin Harvey ters of general interest that was acted jere-c-te-d a -gris-t mill ne-ar Nanticoke. upon in town meeting was with refer¬ 14. Sutton’s mill, Exeter, 1776. ence to the erection of a grist mill. 15. 'E-abb mill, Pitttson, 1818. Eferly in 1772 a grant was made to 16. Barnum-GRctoinson mill, Pittston, Nathan Chapman by the proprietors of 1819. Wilkes-Barre Township of a site of 17. 'Carpenter-Shoemaker mill, Wyo¬ forty acres of land at Mill -Creek, thirty ming. 1790. acres- on the north side of the creek and 18. Tuttle mill. Forty Fort, 1798. ten on the south side, just east of the 19. Swetland-Holgate mill, Mill Hol¬ road known later as the “Middle Road’’ low. and now as the continuation of Main 20. Hancock mill, Luzerne Borough;- street, running from Wilkes-Barre to now P'chooley’s, QPittston. The same year a grist mill 21. Dor ranee mill, Mill H-ollow, 1812. and a saw mill were- built by Mr. 22. 'Rau-b-Wright mill, Luzerne Bor¬ Chapman on. the portion -of the before ough, -1839, -built first -as a -plaster mill. mentioned site, and the -grist mill was 23. Butler mill. Wilkes-Barre, 1S3S. the first one erected in Wyoming. Dur¬ 24. Hillard mill, Wilkes-Barre, 1847. ing this -period of Connecticut jurisdic¬ The paper -closed as follows: From tion eac-h miller -was allowed three about 1,785 to 179-5 the pioneers of the quarts out of each bushel of -corn, and region lying along the north- branch of for other grain- two- quarts, except malt, thn Susquehanna, from -Salem in Lu¬ of which one quart. He was also al¬ zerne county to O-wego in New York lowed for bolting- one pint out of each State, were compelled, to resort to the bushel he should- bolt. One miller to Wyoming Valley to have their corn each 'grist mill was exempted from lia- ground. From 1786 to ’91 the few eai'lv : Ibility to do d-uty in the militia -of the Settlers in -the vicinity of Owego found colony. ■no mill nearer than Wilkes-Barre. The -old mills' were then' severally ! ”'f"h thev reached in canoes. In- 1781 treated in much- interesting detail, in F'tc-.h’s mill was established four miles the following order: above Bin-gharnton, .As late as 1796 the 1. The Chapman will on Mill Creek, inhabitants of Huntington township completed in 1772. Destroyed during Luzerne county, -were -compelled to the expedition against Wyoming in j -bring their grists to the Harvey mill 1778. It was followed- within two or I at West Nanticoke. In 1795 or ’6 .Tim¬ three years by another mill built on the j othy Hopkins and- Stephen Harrison same site by Adonijah -Stanburrou-gh. j erected the first grist mill on Hunting- In 1784 it was the only mill in the set- I -ton Creek at what is now -Harveyville. tlerrsent, and -was held at various- times From 1779 to 1785 there was at all times toy P-ennamites and -Yankees. In 1787 it almost a scarcity -of wheat and flour passed to the Hollen-backs. m Wyoming owing to the lack of con¬ 2. 'Stone mill .'built at mouth- of Mill venient grinding facilities. In 1784 Creek toy Matthias Hollenback. imothy Pickering passed- up the Sus¬ 3. In 1795 Thomas Wright erected a quehanna from Nee-copeck to- Tioga, a (mill at Miner’s Mills on site of -present distance of 120 miles, and he says that structure. It has descended for five he and his party tasted- bread but once generations in one family, through made from wheat flour. -Cakes made Thomas Wright, L4sher Miner (his son- trom corn, coarsely broken in a mortar in-law). Robert Miner (son of Thomas), or ground in a mi'll, were the substitute. Hon. -Charles A. Miner rs-on -of Robert)! A good de-a.l -of wheat and rye was j and now Col. Asher Miner, its general raised by the settlers -diuiring the period manager. Thej story of this, old mil! last mentioned, and many of them and -its early owners was told in most Pcii'd their taxes to the town with grain1 interesting fashion. It is -doubtless the A-t a -town meeting held in Wilkes- oldest mill in (Luzerne county. Barre April 8, 17-82, it was voted “That 4. In 1817 Jehoiada P. Johnson (son t-ne town treasurer be desired to grind of Rev. Jacob Johnson) built a gris-t much of the -public -wheat as to 136

stone lake ’•’I'i) Bounds 61, biscuit and keeT^I — —,.„.viered a • Kiafle -and-so deposited’ that the neces¬ fit subjee or an insane asylum. But sary scouts ntay instantly be supplied: now', as well know, a perfect and from time to time as the occasion re¬ well equ ;d modern mill for making every sp quires.” - k •!,' c,V"“ of ooiir and feed can be My personal experience of grist mills •built without anything resembling .. ! and milling methods extend® back sixty mill-stone entering into its construction years, for as a small boy I saw a good The paper was read only in part and deal of the old mill built by my grand¬ occupied forty minutes. The essayist father and owned by him, and then by expressed his obligation to Oscar J my father. I came into possession of Harvey for. material assistance in ob- 1 this old mill after the death of both taming data. The usual vote of thanks my parents just before I came of age. was passed. At that time the milling business in A^ brief memorial of the late Col. S. this valley was confined almost ex¬ H. Sturdevant. a member of the ‘o iety clusively to w.hat is known as common was submitted by the historiographer’ work, that is, the grinding of grain of W. E. Woodruff. It was accompanied farmers for toil, which was one-tenth by a portrait, presented to the society or at the rate of a bushel in ten for by Col. ritiurdevant’s daughter Miss grinding. The farmers had their grain E'ila U. Sturdevant.* m ground into flour and feed and found a Ac know edgment was made of an ex¬ market for it themselves, and I am not cellent crc yon portrait of the late Hon. sure when the competition was not too B. D. Shoemaker, presented by his son close, to.ut that it was as good a method Dr. Devi I. Shoemaker. of milling: for the miller as the present system of buying and selling, known as merchant milling. Under that system there were no bad debts to worry about and ‘the work was paid for when it wa-s done. At that time there were three From mills on that strea.in from half to three- quarters of a mile apart—the Hollen- back mill, the Stanborough.-Hollenback A/U2. ill and my mill—and all depended up¬ tjL~ on the custom work of the farmers. This made competition very lively. When, -business Was very dull and cus¬ Date, i^ZL/Frt tom coming slowly my .'heart would be As I ■ cheered by seeing a farmer coming up / the hill with a wagon load of corn ears V and wheat, screenings to be ground, cob ’ and all. into feed. But that kind of V '■« milling was neither pleasant nor profit¬ HEN LUZERNE WAS NEW. { able. On the other hand, the old-fash- ■oned three or four story hip roofed INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF mill, with its abundant and1 never fail¬ ing water power and’ slow moving but THE ORGANIZATION OF LU¬ powerful over-shot wheel, splashing ZERNE COUNTY AND SOME continually day and night, and1 running perhaps three or four pairs of burrs on OF THE CASES THAT wheat, one or two on rye, one for CAME BEFORE THE ^ buckwheat in season, and one or two for feed or meal, as occasion might re¬ EARLY COURT. quire, a mill property like this’, sur¬ _ rounded it might be by a farm of many fertile acres, with a good business, Now that it has been decided by the either custom or merchant, was an ex¬ commissioners to erect a new court ceedingly pleasant sight to look upon, house on the Public Square, alittle infor¬ and a very substantial piece of prop¬ mation about the early legal history of erty to be possessed of. The owner of Luzerne County may be of interest. such a property was usually an import¬ In these latter days the calendars of V ant anti respected citizen, and the sur¬ all the courts are crowded with untried rounding farmers-were dependent upon cases and it requires almost incessant him for turning their grain into mar¬ work on the part of the three judges to ketable or edible form and for furnish¬ keep up with the constantly increasing ing them a cash market for their crops. litigation, both in the Common Pleas In short, he was, to put it mildly, a and Quarter Sessions and Oyer and prominent man among ibis neighbors Terminer Courts. and often a power in the community. The present structure on the Public Such was the old-fashioned mill a-s it Square when erected was considered existed for many generations. ample for all the needs of the ccainty, '(•'he old mill, with its humming burrs but it has outlived its usefulness and and laboring water wheel, has been the more room is an imperative necessity. theme of legend, poetry and- song, and Luzerne County’s first Quarter Ses¬ will long continue to be; but its useful¬ sions Court, under the authority of the ness .has ceased*to exist and a new or¬ Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, was der of things and new methods have held in Wilkes-Barre on May 29, 1787. come albout, and have come to stay. If The court was convened and organized any person had made the assertion in the dwelling house of Zebulon But¬ forty yeans ago that flour would' ever ler, corner of River and Northampton be made on anything but a French streets. These facts were gleaned by a ''' ' /

Record man in the clerk of courtTs "office lands'" tying in ttuTiJounty of Luzerne. from a little minute book of 372 pages, “VII. The court then appointed [bound in calf, which contains all the Abraham Westbrook of Wilkes-Barre, road records, court minutes, grand jury a constable for the first district of said returns, etc., from 1787 to 1800. The county—Eliphalet Prichards of Plym¬ pages are about 14 by 8 and are yellow outh, constable for the second district with age. The ink used in those days, and Samuel Finch of Kingston a con¬ however, was of good quality, and the stable for the same second district of records are almost as bright-and clear said county. as when entered 111 years ago. Al&ng- “VII. On motion Ebenezer Bowman, side of the large volumes filled by the William Nichols, Rosetvell Welles and courts each year now the old book is a Putnam Catlin, Esquires, were ad¬ lilliputian in size. mitted as attorneys of the said court | The first record of the General Court and of the Court of Common Pleas for [of Quarter Sessions appears on the first said county and Look the oath of office page and is a history of the organiza¬ prescribed by law.’’ tion. The county offices which now re¬ quire the services of a large number of “The first session of the new court for clerks and deputies were all, with the the transaction of public business and exception of sheriff, filled by one man. the general Gaol delivery was the Sep¬ Timothy Pickering', who was commis¬ tember sessions, which convened on the sioned by the Supreme Executive Coun¬ 4th day of the month with “Obadiah cil of Pennsylvania. He was afterwards Gore, president, and his associate jus¬ a cabinet officer under President Wash¬ tices, assigned to keep the peace ’’ on ington. The story of the organization the bench. as recorded by the clerk is as follows: After the court was formally opened, sheriff, Lord Butler, “returned the pre¬ cepts and processes to him directed and “BE IT REMEMBERED that on the delivered” and the following gentle¬ 29th day of May, in the year 1787, Will¬ men werb sworn in as the first grand iam Hooker Smith, Benjamin Carpenter jury of Luzerne County: Foreman, j and James Nesbitt, Esquires, justices Abel Pierce, Jonah Rogers, John Hol- assigned to keep the peace, etc., in the lenback, Shubac Bidlack, William said County of Luzerne, convened at Trucks, Daniel Gore, Cherist. Hurlburt the dwelling- house of Zebulon Butler in Henry McCormick, Zachariah Hart- Wilkes-Barre in the said county, when souff, Jacob Fritley, Adam Man, Will¬ and where the following proceedings were had: iam Jackson, Thomas Reed, William Hibberd, George Cooper, Elnathan “I. The commissions issued by the Carey [or Corey] James Lassley, Tim¬ Supreme Executive Council of Pennsyl¬ othy Hopkins, John Kennedy, Andrew vania to the said justices, and the other Wartman, Mason, Fitch, Alden Will¬ justices, to-wit: Obadiah Gore, Nathan iams. Kingsley and Matthias Hollenbeck Only two cases came before this grand Esquires, were read, authorizing them jury, and true bills were returned in to keep the peace, etc., within said each. The first case was that of the county. commonwealth vs. John Franklin and “II. The Dedimus Potestatem, issued the grand jury is recorded as having in manner aforesaid, to Timothy Pick- found as follows: [enng, Esq., and Nathan Denison, That John Franklin, late of the coun- .Esquire,impowering them to administer a^?re®ai(b hid on the 19th of April, the oaths to persons who were or should 1787 in the jurisdiction of the court, | be commissioned in the said countv Wlth and arms, etc., in and upon were read. ’ one Eliphalet Richards, in the peace of "TIL Then Dr. William Hooker I God and the commonwealth then and at CarPenter and James there being an assault did make and. Nesbitt, Esquires, took the oath of al- ; him the said Eliphalet, then and there - iegianee, and the oaths of office as jus¬ did beat, and wound and ill-treat, and tices of the peace and of the Court of other harms to the said Eliphalet, then, Common Pleas for said county, before and there did to the great damage of' Timothy Pickering, Esq. the said Eliphalet and against the I . The courts being thus formed, peace and dignity of the Commonwealth appointed Dr. Joseph Sprague, crier: of Pennsylvania. Therefore the sheriff and the Court of General Quarter Ses- is commanded that the body of the said the peace was then opened John, he take, and him have before the •V. Then were read the other com- justices aforesaid at their next court of missions granted to Timothy Pickering General Quarter Sessions to be held Esq., by the Supreme Executive Council etc., that he may answer that present¬ constituting him: ment, etc. 'T. Prothonotary of the County A true bill was also returned in the Court of Common Pleas. case of the commonwealth vs. Franklin “2. Clerk of the Peace. Satterlee, Matthewson, Church and “3. Clerk of the Orphan's Court. Vaughan, growing out of the land con¬ “4. Register for the probate of wills test between Pennsylvania and Connec¬ and granting letters of administration ticut claimants. These men were 5. Recorder of Deeds. S*ar&eh with having on the 10th of July “For said county. a’ ™th force and arms, etc., taken VI. Then were read the commis¬ about five tons of hay and three or four sions of Timothy Pickering and Daniel : acres of wheat off the premises occu¬ Heister, jun., esquires, declaring their pied by Jonathan Woodcock. It was appointment to execute the laws of the also found that they had tried to tear State for examining and confirming the down Woodcock’s house and abused titles of the Connecticut claimants to him so that Jie was afraid of his life Among the minutes of the August ses¬ 'and that th&y Stpli his goods and chat-D sions of 1796 is the following: tels to the amount .of 25 pounds. “Record of a negro-tfiiild*”::. - Sheriff Butler was also ordered by “RECORD OF A NEGRO CHILD.” the court to seize and hold the bodies “I, John Hollenback, of Wilkes-Barre of these men. . Township in the County of Luzerne, l The court also at this session made miller, do certify that I have a negro j the following appointments: John Dal¬ female child by the name of Maria, ' ton a constable for the third district of born of a negro woman which is my the’ county; Nathan Bidlack a con¬ property. The child was born the 19th stable for the first district, and Nathan day of Feb. last and is four months Beach of Salem a constable for that old. This negro child I desire you to .part of the county. record agreeable to a law of the State passed the 29th of March, 1788. At the December sessions of the court “John Hollenback. Obadiah Gore, Matthias Hollenback, “Wilkes-Barre, June 19, 1796. William Hooker Smith, Benjamin Car¬ , “To Lord Butler, penter and James Nesbitt, presided. “Clerk of the Peace, etc.” In a foot note the clerk refers to the | “‘Luzerne County. S. S.: troubles then existing over-land claims “Personally appeared before me John by recording: “No venires were issued Hollenback and verified the above for this term by reason of the peculiar record of a negro child by making oath state of the county.” to the truth of the same I True bills were returned, however, “Witness my hand and seal, i against John Voorhis and John Mon- Lord Butler. ' tanve for stealing four sides of tanned W. L. M. leather from John Carlisle. They were found not guilty, but had to pay the

C°justus Jones was tried for assault and battery on Stephen Gardner an upon conviction was sentenced to pay From, 20 shillings fine and 6 pounds, 2 shillings and 7 pence costs. _A Abraham Van Gorden was charged with stealing fifty fowls from Lawrence . .'a Ai-1 ^ Myers, but the prosecutor did not ap¬ pear and he was discharged on paying SO shillings and 9 pence costs. <1/. I Under the head of “Tavernkeepers Date, during the December session of D88, we find the first liquor licenses granted un¬ der the Pennsylvania laws as follows. The following persons are recommend¬ ed to the State Executive Council as fit persons to keep houses of public tainment for the ensuing year to-wit, Jesse Fell. John Paul Schott, Abel Vai - ington Wilkes-Barre, Waterman Bald- wri ri Pittstown; James Lassley in Genealogical and Historical. "Hanover; Lawrence Myers and Fniiip Rules to be observed by contributor Myers Tn Kingston; Jonah Rogers in to this department: Plymouth; Gideon Osterhout 3P Put- 1. Give full name and address, wri nam- Isaac Hancock m Spi'mgfiejd, mg on one side of the paper. ■ Thomas McCheer in Tioga the 2. Always give the number of ^ tne l Luzerne County then ran clear to the query, or answer, initials and date ot the paper. i ! NSkipping over the pages to ^ 3. Direct to Katharine Searle Mc¬ • sessions of 1796 it is apparent that a Cartney, Genealogical and Historical severe storm of the cyclone order had Editor of The Wilkes-Barre TIMES, or recently passed over the county by tne 120 South Ravef street. following recommendation of the Giana Historical. Jl*“Whereas by the late hurricane the On January 7, 1899, Rev. Morton Dex¬ road between Wilkes-Barre and Lehigh ter will give an account of the d,edica- became much out* of repair and almost tion of the John Robinson memorial impassable and it is necessary for the tablet, erected on ©t. Peter’s' chuich, public good that the road should b<: n i Leyden. Holland, by the National Coun¬ proved, opened and repaired, the-Grand cil of the Congregational churches of Jury recommend Jhat the court ^iant America. At the meeting of the So¬ the sum of $250, the said sum to be ciety of Mayflower descendants, in the taken out of the county levies of this ■commonwealth of Massachusetts, to ne held at the JSPbtel Vendome, Boston. The^court on April 21 announced that The District.of Columbia Society, wons it had consulted and concurred m the of the American Revolution, have is¬ recommendation and ordered that tne sued an interesting report of the resto¬ ration of the Berrian home at Reeky appropriation be set aside. Hill, New Jersey, or.ee the heauquait- Many people, who are under the im¬ ers of General Washington. As far pression that negro slavery existed only back as 1734 this old home was tne hi the Southern States, will be surpu-ed home of Judge John Bernan. and, a ft si his death, in 1761, his widow continued to learn that as late as 1796 negroes tn live there, entertailing' from time to were held as slaves in Luzerne County^. . ~|F~ 139

branches the vine clung a century a-go 'time many notable people. If waS~tTie' and whose leaves sheltered the patriot headquarters of General Washington, boys as they gasped for life and prayed in IIS'S. Only a few miles away is the for salvation. Was not that spot f historic Hopewell Valley, where the blood bought mercy seat? I love to council of war was held in that mem¬ linger there and would help rear a mon¬ orable night In. June before the battle ument there to stand while time -shall of -Monmouth. -Hopewell was the home continue an-d centuries toll away. ox John Hart, one of the sig'ners of the Rogers Searle dated hts -conversion at Declaration of Independence. The sltu- this time and on this very spot and atlon of the Berrian home made it of after his return to Connecticut with his |-great advantage as a place from which mother and sisters who were in the fort, I observations could be made of the became a local Methodist preacher and j manoeuvres of the enemy. Less than is recorded on the Preston-, Conn.,’ rec¬ I -five m-iles away, the seat of Congress, ords as Reverend Rogers Searle. He be¬ I was at Princeton. Genefal and Mrs. came one of th-e early founders of Meth- Washington, occupied (Jhe home dur¬ odlism, if not the first, in- this valley. ing nearly three months. A portrait of The editor has often heard her father Washington was- painted at this time by tell of this- thrilling es-eane from the Joseph Wright and was later sent over battle of his father, and how -when to l1 ranee. The -parlor has been the under the water, he would feel the In- sipecial care of the Princeton chapter of dains searching among -the driftwood the Daughters of The American Revolu¬ for him-. tion- and its furnishings of homespun f And my God, put into mine heart to carpet, rush-seated chairs, spinnet, old -gather together the nobles and th<- tables, cabinet spinning wheel and the rulers and the people that they might lik-e recall olden days. Ladies of the be reckoned by genea.logy.”-iHebrews Trenton chapter furnished a. bed ro-om. v i.: o. leading -from the parlor. -Other ladies of Trenton furnished) the dining room. Queries. The main stairway leads to the Wash¬ What recognition ington room where George Washington would the hereditary societies take of wrote his- farewell address. the Bible genealogies which give no This, while not local, is giVen with the dates, merely statements? As I am hope that it may inspire an interest to informed none of these societies insist wards the -preservation of the only his¬ on da-tes of 'birt'h and1 marriage and -if toric home in this locality. Connected not clearly proven, reject the -appli¬ with some of our most stirring early cant s papers. ^ history. The home known as the Ross No. 18. Will the different descend¬ home, on South ‘Main street. It has ants of the different families of Ather¬ long been the cherished wish an-d ton send to the editor their line of de¬ earnest hope of the Regent of the Wy¬ 1 scent—whether of the name of Ather¬ oming Valley chapter that steps might ton or descended from -the first -immi¬ b-e taken to preserve this- historic home, grant to this- valley? There are several and the attention of the chapter has descendants in this locality -and it many times- been directed toward this would appear from various statements object. that there were two distinct families The interesting account of Judge who settled in this part of Pennsylva¬ Daniel Searle, in t'h-e Record a few days nia. Descendants to present date of since, of Montrose, 'P-a., states he is the same is also requested. brother of Mrs. William M. Miller, of No. 19 -Charles Miner in the intro¬ this city, Which is an error. Judge duction to his History of Wyomin» Searle is a son of the late Daniel Searle. states “that a bound volume -contain¬ of Pittston, Pa., who- was a -brother of ing the old Westmoreland Records Leonard Searle, of Montrose, Pa., the came him of whi-ch ovory pago opon- i father of Mrs. Miller and is- therefore ed new views.” Can anyone of his - her first cousin. family state what disposition was Sn-ade I Judge Searle’s family is closely iden¬ of tnese records, after Mr. Miner had tified with the history of this valley. completed his history? As this column His great grandfather, Constant Searie. is intended for local history and his- was one of the victims of the Wyoming torical and genealogical data relating massacre, and his grandfather, -the Rev. to Westmoreland, the editor would be Rogers Searle, a lad of 16 at the time, glad if cognizance is taken of these escaped from the battle and with An- queries, and if information cannot be ning -Owen lay- in the water under a furnished suggestions can be m-ade grape vine, which the Rev. Jonathan which may lead to valuable results Peek in a letter to the editor, says “was Where is there any positive evidence right -at thb m-outh of -Sfeoemak-er’s that Captain 'Samuel Ransom was of Creek” in the rear of Forty Fort ceme¬ tery. If one stands by the old tomb¬ Litchfield county, Connecticut, other stones and looks- across the mouth of : than that of Mr. Miner in his- history the creek, in plain- sight of the liver, page 2b, appendix? Page 27 says his he can see the very spot where the thre» father was horn in Conteitoury, Conn." boys, Owen, Searle and Carpenter, Answers. panting and praying, after a deathly Query No. 6, issue of Dec. 2a 18-38 race from the bloody battlefield, -crouch¬ There was a family of Fitzgeralds in ed to elude the eyes of -the searching In¬ ounkhannock and a history of their an¬ dians, seeing the Tory Wihdec-ker dash cestry has been gathered, so I am in¬ out th-e brains of Shoemaker, whose formed. Do not know whether it has body floated down into the eddy, while been published. M. a > the riverwras"crimson with human gore.” Query No. 10. Mason -Fitch Alden Right there still stands the old trunk of died at or near Mesho.p.pen, Pa Per- g. tree, and though the grape vine is haps Nignerer might learn of parentage v-> me, ee -fern a ins to whose of his wife from some of his many de- hooddantS n°W Hving in ,that nel-ghbor- history. However, it runs back into i history further than that, for it was one of the roads used by the pioneers in 1 their travels between Wyoming Valley ' and Connecticut, and it was the route selected by Gen. Washington for Sulli- , van’s expedition to take in 1779 in its memorable expedition to I the northward for the crushing [ of the Six Nations in their New York stronghold. The old stage road has an interesting history which has never been written. It is partially written in the article which follows, contributed to the Record by one who has many of the original records of the turnpike company in his possession and which have not before seen the light of ! AN OLD STAGE HOUSE. day for generations. The gentleman in question, whose innate modesty prompts INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF A him to remain anonymous, except to FAMOUS OLD HOSTELRY ON sign himself “Pocono,” uses the old stage-house, Terwilleger’s, known as THE WILKES-BARRE AND EAS¬ Tucker’s, as a text for his story, which TON TURNPIKE, AS TOLD BY is so interesting that it is to be hoped ] AN OLD RESIDENT, WHO PRE¬ he will find time and inclination for t another chapter. SENTS MANY FACTS NOT IN “THE OLD STAGE HOUSE.”., I THE BOOKS. X “Terwillegers.” There are a great many people who The “Old Stage House,” an ancient are in some way interested in the old hostelrv built of loers. covered by | turnnpike, which in the early part of weather boards—a deserted turnpike I the century vyas built to give Luzerne road—a noisy, babbling creek—the old ! County the benefit of the Easton mar¬ house stands there—a monument to the kets and. incidentally to take people to past almost alone. Philadelphia. Nowadays we use that The history of the Old Stage House ! interesting old thoroughfare to drive to and the turnpike are almost one and t' modern resorts like Bear Creek, Bear the same history—both being born L Lake, Stoddartsville and the Pocono, about the same time and so closely in- K but in the early years of the century it terpleaded that the history of one is | was part of a trunk line to the Penn¬ necessarily the history of the other. sylvania metropolis and had a notable _The Old Stage House stands on the |

\ THE OLD STAGE HOUSE. The cut of the old stage house is by Taylor, from a snapshot taken by “Franklin’s” wife last summer, and a glimpse is had of Mrs. Tucker, standing 141

1 Western side of the Easton and WiTkSs- ! Robinson established a weekly 1'etrre Turnpike, about six miles from line of two-horse mail stages running- tvu£ oek\ (fourteen males from through to Easton in two days, but it Wilkes-Barre) and though rustic and was not until about 1824 that a daily unostentatious in its appearance has line of four-horse mail coaches com¬ entertained a greater number of guests menced running over the road, learning ni us day than any other house now Wilkes-Barre at 4 a. m. and stopping at existing in this county. Preachers, law¬ “Terwilleger’s” for breakfast and yers, doctors, business men, and even change of horses. It was operated by the ,lc,ions of . n°bility from the old Miller Horton, James Eley, Whitesell world have enjoyed its quiet rest and and Stauffer. generous hospitality. About the year 1802 George Buck | ,,The . earlJ" Connecticut settlers in built the “Old Stage House” and moved Wyoming Valley who returned here af- from his old log house on the opposite 1 ter the battle of Wyoming.in July, 1778, side of the turnpike into the new house | had but a very primitive mode of travei and opened to the public, where he en¬ to and from their New England homes, tertained the stage passengers and most of the journey being performed others for many years. C. L. Terwille- | on horseback. In 1779 Gen. Sullivan, ger, having married one of his daugh¬ during his famous march from the Del¬ ters, then assumed the proprietorship aware to the Susquehanna, opened the of the house and kept the hotel for a first passable road through the “Great JLqng time, when the property was then Pine Swamp.” This road was after- sold to Abijah Uewis, father of Albert | wards used by the settlers, being im- Lewis of Bear Creek, who kept the j Proved from time to time as the occa¬ house for some time. The next land¬ sion required, and as their means would lord was a man from Northampton allow them. County by the name of Jacoby—he was After the organization of Luzerne followed by a Mr. Oyer. Abram Bellas, County in 1786, at the earnest solicita- who is still living near by, was also tion of the people, a small sum was ap¬ landlord for a time. About 1850 Frank propriated for the further improvement Horton leased it and remained, there ! of the road, but it was not until 1802 for some four • years, when it was that a charter was obtained for the again taken possession of by the owner, j Easton and Wrilkes-Barre Turnpike Mr. Lewis and his brother Isaac, after Co.” Arnold Colt—the father-in-law of which it was sold to William Tucker, die late Hon. Andrew Beaumont—was who, together with his widow, has then living at Bear Creek, keeping the been in possession for about forty years, only house of public entertainment on the latter still dispensing a generous the road. Mr. Colt obtained the con¬ hospitality to all who have occasion to tract for building the turnpike from ! rest there on their way over the moun¬ Wilkes-Barre to top of Pocono moun¬ tain or who tarry there for a few days tain, or one-half of the road. The to fish the trout streams in that neigh¬ first order for money to apply on his borhood and where all will find a good contract, as shown by records in the clean bed and enjoy a hearty meal. possession of the writer, bear date of About this time a postoffice was May 31, 1804. This order was given to established at the “Old Stage House” ,1 Mr. Colt for $100, for “expenses of the and called “Beaumont,” in honor of exploring committee.” Another order Hon. Andrew Beaumont, who was at for $60 was given to Gen. William Ross that time an influential member of the for disbursement and compensation on ! Board of Managers of the new turnpike the “exploring committee.” Other or- i Co. The locality is still spoken of as 1 oers for various sums are given to Mr. i Beaumont but long" agro ceased to bear Colt, William, Barnet, Nicholas Kern. the dignity of a postoffice. These were Tim Barnes and others, and one to the days of the “reining profession ” j George Palmer for surveying under the and he who could skilfully handle one direction of the “exploring committee;” of the four-horse teams was more than another order to Ebenezer Bowman for an ordinary man. Among the celebri- i money advanced by him for “Office fees ties of those days v^ere George Root on Letters Patent.” An order to Will- ; Jep Swainbank, Harrison Williamson, \ iam White for building a bridge over Jim Bird and many others of less notor¬ Aquashicola Creek. Another order for iety. There is only one of the drivers of $25 to John Ewing for services for one the old stage line now living, Dave Lar- year as secretary of the Board of Man- raway of Wilkes-Barre, whose face is agerSi An order to Philip Meixell for often seen on the streets or at Tuck’s /" going to Lancaster to receive the money livery stable. for part of the shares “Subscribed by The country of the “Great Pine the Governor of Pennsylvania on behalf Swamp” was then wild and rugged and of the Commonwealth.” An order for , as day broke upon the stage passen¬ $1.20 to William Barnet for procuring a, i ger, there was naught to break the license from the Governor for erecting ( silence of the forest save only the “joy¬ a toll gate, etc, etc. ous bay of a hound at play or the caw About 100 years ago George Buck, a of a rook on its homew'ard wray.” Even relative of Capt. Aholiab Buck, who new rattlesnakes are to be seen in the y as killed in the battle of Wyoming, neighborhood and within the last thirty built .the first log tavern on that por¬ years three have been killed inside the tion of the road nearly opposite where Old Stage House.” Game was very ;the “Old Stage House” now stands. |, abundant, and at almost all times of When the Easton and Wilkes-Barre ! the year a ride from Wilkes-Barre so Turnpike was chartered and work com- | early in the morning sharpened the ap¬ rnenced on the new road, he built the | petite, which was appeased by delicious present house in anticipation of the venison steak, bear meat and trout, trade arising froriLthe increased travel and occasionally Tim Barnes, the vet- ever the new mail and passenger route. i eran hunter, might be found then with In 1806 John P. Arndt and John W. W.-j ——-»——— -- -— / a huge panther that he had killed in | cussing the sumptuousIneaFafter their i that neighborhood. Tim Barnes, Con¬ early morning ride over the mountains, rad Sox and his son George were the each one solicitous of the other’s wel¬ •champion hunters Of the'“Great Pine fare; and again we can see them after Swamp,’’ the latter having shot a per¬ finishing their meal, don their wraps fectly white deer not far from the house and enter the coach with old Philip —he also killed three panthers in one Sigler or Andrew Buskirk on the box day. Conrad Sox, who. built, a good to drive them to John Smith at Po- I portion of the turnpike, killed a panther cono for dinner. Happy, happy days while resting his rifle on the shoulder were those, but they are gone, gone j of his wife. into the mouldy past and we ^. The first saw mill in the township was built by Hugh Connor in 1806, and "Peel like one who treads alones the first church was built in 1816, about Some banquet hall deserted, j three miles from the “Old StageHouse.” Where lights that shone, now dimmed j George Buck and John. Nagle were and gone. I among the earliest settlers in this part And all but me departed.” : of the country, the latter building his | Pocono. j log house about three or four miles I * * * from Buck in 1782. Since the above was in type "Pocono” 1 Prom 1824' to about 1848 a daily line of has handed the Record two clippings four-horse stages left Wilkes-Barre from the Gleaner of 1811. exploding the every morning at 4 a. m., reaching City of Rome bubble, but they will have Easton in the evening, arriving at to be held over for another issue. Philadelphia the following day, but soon j] the "advance of civilization,” the open- INTERESTING OLD BOOK. j; ing of the steam railroads, etc., com- Washington, Jan. 13, 1899. pelled the old stage ooach to yield to its I noticed in Record, under head of rivals and finally to disappear from the Historical Column, you ask persons read. having letters or documents bearing on Soon after the opening of the Easton the early history of the Wyoming Val¬ and Wilkes-Barre turnpike, about the ley to send them to you. I therefore year 1810, a project was formulated by write to say that In the Library of Con- some Philadelphia speculators who rgress, Washington, D. C., second floor. were extensively engaged in the lum¬ Northwest corridor, in Case No. 7, Lock ber trade in the “Great Pine Swamp,” A, I find a book the title page of which of building^ a city on the barren portion reads as follows; “The Susquehannah of the Poeiono mountain, about a mile Title, first published in Western Star, and a half south of the “Old Stage printed in Catskill by Mackay Croswell, PTouse,” to be called “The City of 1796.” I may add, I enjoy reading Rome”—a district so bleak, barren and Franklin’s interesting, instructive and unproductive that even the crows who historical writings. flew across it were compelled to carry A Record Reader. knapsacks—and yet this insane project * * * so far materialized 9s to elect a presi¬ We are much obliged to our cor¬ dent and eighteen directors for thepros- respondent for his friendly interest. It pective city. Artisans of all kinds—ship¬ is a book of 115 pages and is highly builders, machinists, carpenters, black¬ prized by collectors of Americana. A smiths, etc,—were induced to bite at copy is in possession of the Wyoming the alluring bait and invest in “city Historical Society, Wilkes-Barre. It is lots” and had it not been that the one of dozens of publications which scheme was exposed in the columns of were issued prior and just subsequent "The Gleaner,” published by Charles to 1800. Many of them are, if not most Miner and Steuben Butler, many a poor of them, given in Rev. H. E. Hayden’s mechanic would have lost his all in admirable, bibliography of the Wyom¬ worthless lots in the grand “City of ing Valley, which is a portion Rome.” Many a bargain for lots in the of the published proceedings of the His¬ city was made in the barroom of the torical Society, Vol. II, page 122. The "Old Stage House,” where many vision¬ author of this particular book, W'hich ary schemes in lumber and other j w'as published anonymously, was B. branches of commercial life first saw j Bidwell. It has a unique value, in that the light of day. j It was written on information furnished Sitting oh the porch of the "Old Stage by Col. John Franklin. I House” on a bright autumnal day the j_FRANKLIN. j place seems invested with the halo of | i the pleasant memories of the past— I pleasant memories of bye-gone days, PIONEER DAYS. ^ and we can see the old coach with George Root on the box roll up to the SIGNAL GUNS FROM THE MOUN¬ door of the tavern. We can see old TAINS IN 1778—KATHERINE bow-legged Charlie Terwilleger, withhis good-natured face, opening the coach GAYLORD’S MONUMENT—CITY dcor and helping his. guests out, while OF ROME BUBBLE — JESSE the aroma of strong Rio and fragrant FELL’S -..FIRST , GRATE—BULL venison steaks filled the surrounding BAITING TO AMUSE LEGISLA¬ air and only increased the voracious appetites caused by the long ride over TORS. the mountains. We can see the figures of familiar The poor Spaniards and Mexicans | friends—long since passed over to “the who enjoy bull fights are not much be¬ great beyond”—we can hear the merry hind some of our ancestors of less than I laugh and note smiling faces at the a century ago, as shown by the follow- Nreakfast (.able—we can see them dis¬ in g *i t fro m _theW flljesJ^rreLead e r. ten by Mrs. Mussey, but the illustra¬ it is gratifying’ to know that this cruel | tions are by her, showing Forty Fort sport received a solar-plexus blow from I and Wyoming Monument and many a Wilkes-Barre editor, Hon. Charles lesser cuts, as also a picture of the Miner, author of the History of Wyo¬ monument erected at Burlington, Conn., ming. Lancaster was at that time the by the Daughters. The inscription fol¬ State Capitol and the Legislature was lows: in session: ♦>-_---■—* Lancaster, Monday, Dec. 7, 1812. Katherine Cole Gaylord, On motion of Mr. Miner (Mr. Charles . . ..wife, of Miner, member from this district and Lieut. Aaron Gaylord { father of Wm. P. Miner, former editor ■> 1745-1840. of the Wilkes-Barre Record) the item In memory of 1 her sufferings ■ of unfinished business relating to a and"heroism 'at* the massacre of turnpike road from Wright’s Mills (now Wyoming, 1778, this stone is erect¬ Miner’s Mills) to the ten mile stone, j ed by her descendants and the was committed, &c., &c. members’ of Katherine Gaylord Thursday, Dec. 10. i Chapter, of the .Daughters of the ■ Yesterday, after the house adjourned. I American Revolution, July 3, I rrfany of the members were invited out j 1895. I about 100 rods from the town to a “bull ♦>-v bait.” A full account of Katherine Gaylord On arriving on the ground it was appeared in the Record at the time of found that the sport had continued an the dedication. The Gaylord family de¬ j hour or two. scended from William, who came to The bull was fastened by a rope to a America in 1629. The paper contains an 'stake driven into the ground and then interesting account of affairs in Wyom¬ isix or eight large bull dogs let loose ing prior to the massacre, her husband upon him. who was an . officer in the Connecticut The poor animal was almost exhaust¬ line having taken his family to Wyom¬ ed—the .blood ran _ from his sides, and ing- in 1776. Her husband was one of his head was terribly lacerated and the killed in the 1778 battle. His wife i tern—his ears torn off and his eyes al- i-j and -three -little • children- sought safety I most out. One large dog had him by in flight across the mountains to Con¬ the nose, one by the remains of the necticut, exposed to every privation ear, another hung on to his eye, while imaginable. She and her brood of little a fourth was-;tearing him from behind. ones reached their Connecticut home The poor creature moaned with an- 4 in safety and Katherine was spared guish, and his bellowing, extorted by for 62 years after. The story of her their cruelty seemed to heighten the life is most interesting and is a valua¬ pleasure of the sport. I never was ble contribution to local history. The more disgusted in my life, nor had I an pamphlet is neatly printed and is en¬ idea that man could could delight in closed in a paper cover of Indian red, such savage tortures. I staid but a few printed in black and gilt, together with minutes and I observed that the mem¬ a silnouette of Katherine Gaylord in bers of the legislature turned away her young days. with apparent horror. * * * This morning Mr. Miner introduced The following queries in the Mail and the following resolution which was Express have a local bearing: agreed to almost unanimously: No. 3003.—Uriah Chapman, born in “Whereas, an instance has lately oc¬ 1733; married Sybil Cooke, of Preston, curred at the seat of government and Conn. They lived in the Wyoming Val¬ under the eyes of the legislature of the ley in Pennsylvania. He was twice ap- practice of bull baiting, conceiving that j pointed justice of the peace. every wise and humane government Who was of Nathaniel Cook, of Pres¬ ought to protect animals from cruelty— L ton, mother of Sybil, above mentioned? that the practice of bull baiting is dis¬ Richard Cook and his wife Grace, of graceful to a civilized and Christian Stonington, in 1678, and Preston in 1680, I people—and that the public mcfrals grandparents of Nathaniel. must be vitiated by such inhuman ex¬ Wife of John Clark, of Norwich, hibitions. Therefore I Conn. Their daughter Phebe married Resolved, That a committee be ap¬ Obed Cook in 1704. R. C. M. pointed to introduce a bill for the sup- No. 3009.—Isaac Wilcox, his brother pression of “Bull baiting”—and provid- ; Crandall Wilcox, and his sister Thank¬ ifig for the more effectual punishment ful Wilcox, came from Dutchess Coun¬ of persons who shall be guilty of ty, New York, to the Wyoming Valley cruelty to animals. (Pa.), about 1790. They were originally Committee, Messrs. Miner, McComb from Rhode Island. Later came their and Holgate. father, also named Isaac, and their * * * mother, Desiah. Stephen, Esau, Elisha A WYOMING HEROINE. and Amos were also in Wyoming Val¬ The Record has received a notable ley about this time and possibly related pamphlet from the Daughters of the to them. Thankful m. Daniel Rosen- American Revolution at Bristol, Conn., crans and among her descendants are entitled ’ “Katherine Gaylord, Heroine,” Gen. William Stark Rosecrans and which has a special interest here from Bishop Rosecrans, of Columbus, Ohio, the fact that the heroine was one of the (Roman Catholic). From the brothers, fugitives 1 front Wyoming after the Isaac and Crandall, are descended a dreadful slaughter of 1778. The story is large family in Pennsylvania, New by Florence E. D. Mussey, regent at j York, Ohio, Michigan, etc. Can some i Bristol, Conn., and won the first Na- one give their ancestry and the maiden I tional Society prize for the best bio- j name of Desiah? Where can a sketch | graphical sketch. It is not only writ-J of Bishop Rosecrans be found? ' .* * * “CITS’ OF ROME,” in the famous^ity.Siaving^n^he^rst In last week’s Historical Column was place laid out [their pittance in town a reference to the fraudulent scheme lots, and the Shipbuilder arrived on nearly ninety years ago to found the the confines of the forest having been ‘‘City of Rome” on the Pocono moun¬ persuaded to buy and remove there to tain. Tlie following interesting items set up business. are from the Wilkes-Barre Gleaner of * '* • * that time, whose editors were potential Not everybody is aware of the fact in exposing the swindle: that before the British expedition in¬ [Gleaner, Feb. 8, 1811.] vaded Wyoming Valley in 1778 the set¬ A bolder speculation has not been tlers had arranged for the firing of lately attempted than that of selling signal guns to give the inhabitants the ‘‘City of Rome.” A town plot has notice of the oncoming of the enemy. b^en laid out in the “Great Swamp” I learn as follows from the venerable about seventeen1 miles from Wilkes- James H. Suttbn of Honesdale; Barre and about five east of the Le¬ Men had been stationed on prominent high bridge- (-Stoddartsville). points up the river so as to provide a The proprietors ad captandum have series of signals and when the more re¬ given the spot the title of the “City of mote or any other saw the Indians ap¬ Rome” and are selling out the lots, proaching he was to'fire his gun. the principally in Philadelphia. The spot is next man below him, as he caught the .a wilderness and nature hath stamped sound, fired his gun and the next did upon it her irrevocable signet that a likewise until the signal reached the wilderness it shall remain. It has not fort from the farthest outlying point. a single requisite for a village. In the This signaling was intended to warn city papers we saw with surprise that the farmers and others of the approach at an election heid by the proprietors of'the Indians in order that they might of the City of Rome, a president, secre¬ flee to the fort for safety. In other tary and eighteen directors were elected words these guns' were fired from the to superintend its concerns. mountains to warn the people of ap¬ Eet us consider the honorable council proaching danger. assembled on the fepotT in solemn ses¬ * • • sion—the president seated beneath -the Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly' for eragged boughs ofjan old hemlock; the September, 1898, contained a ten-page honorable council squat around him article on “The Story of Wyoming the cross-legged like Iso many Chickasaw Beautiful,” by John P. Ritter. The arti¬ chiefs, or sitting on the rotten logs or cle was notable for its admirable illus¬ remains of some! old “windfall,” the trations.' worship's breeches “all tattered ahd * * * torn” by the struggle in getting through It is gratifying to note the interest the brush at the' capitol. No need of that has been awakened in this His¬ closed doors. torical Column, not only in Wilkes- . Congress, mighjtremove_jto_ “Roms” Barre, but in distant places. The arti¬ and debate their most important mat¬ cle by “Pocono” on the old Easton and ters without the , least possible hazard Wilkes-Barre Turnpike attracted of any mortal hearing a syllable of special • attention and the article on their proceedings. Capt John Franklin’s Wyoming Com¬ There being nobody but the honorable pany of 1780 was specially praised for council to legislate for but themselves, its genealogical value to those seeking the first bill wbuld be passed nem. to establish Revolutionary lineage. For con. to send out] of the swamp to re¬ the materials which have been sent the plenish their knapsacks and their nog¬ undersigned expresses his gratitude gins. The second would probably be and he will endeavor to work them in entitled “an ordinance to. keep up fires from week . to, week as space affords. through the night to secure the council In the meantime further contributions from the wolves f will be welcome and all who send mate¬ It must, howelver, be confessed that rial will have the reward of knowing that place being infested by wmlves is that they will thus save for the future no good reason why it will not here¬ valuable information that would other¬ after become a. populous and potent wise become'lost,- ■ ■ city, particularly when we recollect the support afforded by those animals to the founders of its namesakes, the mistress of the world. From the sit¬ FIRST LUZERNE JAIL. uation of the city we are rather of the opinion that “Tadmor” would be a more SOME GLEANINGS FROM THE appropriate name. — COUNTY RECORDS WHEN LU¬ [Gleaner, April 26, 1811.] ZERNE WAS NEW—LUZERNE’S This speculation is completely blown. FIRST DISTRICT ATTORNEY- We understand that the proprietor curses the Gleaner for its interference, TIPPLING HOUSES WERE NUM- | for it ruined his fortune. We are heart¬ EROUS IN THE OLD DAYS AND j ily glad of it, for while we would with WERE' FINED TEN POUNDS J heart and hand encourage every proper enterprise, we shall always be ready to EACH—HOW AN IDLER WAS j expose the tricks of the swindler and PUNISHED. save the industrious and honest labor¬ er from the impostor. We are told In my last I gave an account of the J that a great number of poor deluded erection of Luzerne County as taken i but industrious men, some with and from the records in the courthouse. I -•ome without families, have come up There is nothing to show when the very || —gw” vr - first jail (or gaol) was built, but it was 1 | sellor-at-law, as his deputy to implead of course a. very early necessity. At and prosecute for and in the name of the sitting of the grand jury in 1792, •the commonwealth all crimes and of¬ (Nathan Landon, foreman,) it was re- fenses committed in the county of Lu¬ dommended that the jail have a vault, a zerne. As Mr. Levy appeared at the August session and was duly sworn fence and a well. It must have been a into office he can very properly be put mere ram-shackle structure, judging down as Luzerne County’s first district from the following protest: i ! attorney. “John Franklin, Esq., high sheriff, represents to the court that he has ex¬ The liquor question seemed to be a amined the prison of this county and thorn in the sides of the court in the is of opinion it is insufficient, therefore early days as well as at the present he cannot consent to trust prisoners and from 1787 to 1800 at nearly every therein at his risque.” session from one to ten persons were The grand jury for the November indicted for conducting taverns without session of 1793 reported as follows: license and conducting tippling houses. “Having viewed the county jail and In many instances these offenders have the jail yard the grand jury do find good old Luzerne County names. At that the apartments in which prisoners the November sessions of 1790 eighteen are confined are by no means suitable persons pleaded guilty to keeping tav¬ for the reception of-human beings at ern without license and each, one was this inclement season—it is recommend¬ fined £10 and costs. ed that a close stove, together with a sheet iron pipe be immediately erected The early authorities of old Luzerne in one of the rooms. did not have much faith in idlers, loaf¬ “Peter Grubb, foreman.” ers and men who refused to work and 1 It is creditable to our great-grand¬ gave them severe sentences when fathers to know that they were willing brought before them. At the April ses¬ to provide a stove for the prisoners in sions of 1792 the authorities of Tioga the winter. Township brought one Joseph T- * * * before the court and the following The jail question does not seem to order was made: have made much better progress than “Whereas Joseph T-, a person not having wherewith to maintain himself the present new court house scheme, for at the January sessions of 1795 the or family, lives idlv and without em¬ county commissioners asked the grand' ployment and refuses to work for not jury to endorse a plan to build a frame only the usual common wages, but for house adjoining the gaol for the aecom- any, and is a rogue and vagabond and l modation of the sheriff and his family, has commited many acts of violence with one or two rooms for the transac¬ upon the people in the township of tion of county business. Tioga, a person of extreme bad fame The grand jury, however, presented and reputation, was committed to the the following: common gaol of this county by Guy “The grand jury beg leave to present Maxwell, Esq., one of the justices of the peace for the county of Luzerne, on j to the honorable court that they have ! considered the request of the county the 13th day of April inst., for the causes aforesaid, there to remain until ! commissioners and are of opinion that it is not expedient to build such a the court and the order thereof be ! building, but would rather recommend known upon the premises, and whereas, ! to build a house of about 30 or 40 feet, upon the complaint and testimony of two stories high, of stone or brick, that Ira Stevens of said Tioga Township might answer the purpose of a court (and our own knowledge) the premises j house and prison with accommodation to us are sufficiently known. 'for the gaoler’s family, which would be “Therefore it is- ordered that the said of durable advantage to the county: Joseph T-be further imprisoned that the proposed frame building will until the 13th day of May next, there to fie only a temporary accommodation. be kept at hard labor, and until he “Christopher Hurlburt, foreman.” pay the costs of prosecution.” I Perhaps this is the structure de¬ I omit the name, out of regard for scribed in the reminiscence which “W. the feelings of descendants whom I know to be honorable and industrious ' B. D.” furnishes this column. * St people. I may give the Record another Previous to 1800 there was no prose¬ instalment from the old archives. W. L. M. cuting or rather district attorney in * * * Lpzerne County and all cases were con¬ ducted on the part of the common¬ SOME LOCAL MEMORIES. wealth by the attorney general of the The following reminiscences about the State, who allowed large numbers of old jail and Judge Jesse Fell’s experi¬ case now known as petty cases to be mental grate for burning anthracite i carried to the Supreme-Court on writs will be of interest: of certiorari. The following incidents having more The first attorney general to attend or less of a historical value were gath¬ I the local court was William Bradford, ered by John Marble, now a resident I Jr., who was succeeded in August, 1791, of Vanwert, Ohio, whose people were by Jared Ingersoll. Joseph B. McKean early settlers in Wyoming Valley from was commissioned May 19, 1800, and Connecticut. He early in life removed the minutes of the local court for the to Ohio and became a successful bank¬ August session of 1800 set forth that er and railroad man and during a visit Joseph B. McKean, under date of June here in July, 1878 collected and made 14, 1800 had nominated, appointed and the following memorandum: Mr. Mar¬ deputed Daniel Levy, of the town of ble’s grandmother’s maiden name was Sunbury, esquire, attorney and coun- Richards, ussthey coming. from Litchfield County Conn. She first marrieda Mr. Thompson there and he visited Wyom¬ that ing Valley in 1794 and bought lands at range their meetings Newport, but the roads were so bad flict; finally tilings ran so and the distance so great, that after his resulted in looking the Methodists out, return home he concluded to not move but grandfather simply pushed in the to Wyoming Valley. Soon after he door and took and held possession, tell-1 died and several years after she mar¬ ing the Presbyterians that if they were ried Mr. Marble, who was jailor two or not content to carry out the will of the three years, lived there in 1804—which builders they should buy out or sell was the date on a sign he had out for out, which resulted in the selling out bearding. He died Aug. 10 1805, she to the Methodists for $1,000. The Pres¬ having buried her first husband just byterians went so far as to put locks ten years previous. In 1801 they lived on the pew doors. * in the “Stewart Block House.” The old jail the first in Luzerne Relative to the first iron grate for County, was a two story building. The anthracite coal David , Thompson of lower story was occupied in front by Shickshinny, who was present during the jailor’s room, and behind this were the whole time of the novel experiment, two apartments about 15 feet square, states that Judge Fell and Solomon one for the confinement of ordinary Johnson had been for some time talk¬ criminals, the other for the confine¬ ing up the matter of burning coal. ment of such unfortunates as were sent Johnson boarded with grandmother to jail for debt. The second story was Marble, who lived on Main street, above used for a court room, one corner, about the Square. Judge Fell then lived on 10 by 15 feet in size, being used as a Northampton street. They finally con-H chamber for the jailor’s family. eluded to make an experiment and took It was a log building, afterwards some pieces of iron about two feet longji used as an academy. The floor of the and laid same on the andirons (whichI criminal prison was of eight-inch plank. were placed against the wall. On thel The thickness was impressed upon Mr. ends of the iron they laid bricks and I Thompson by a prisoner trying to laid iron on the brick in front fourf escape. Having secured an auger he brick high. They then built a fire of] bored out a staple in the floor. hickory wood in the improvised grate. V r * * % The bellows was only used to blow the The old Wilk]es-Barre meeting house wood fire. After the wood was burn¬ was raised in 1601. All Careytown was ing strong they put on coal gotten up, including grandfathers Marble and from Judge Fell’s nephew’s (Edward Carey. The building was simply en¬ Fell’s) blacksmith shop near by, and closed and so stood for years. Uncle put on and were gratified to find a fine David Thompson recollects when there coal fire after the wood had burned out. were but gight members of the M. E. So satisfied were they that Judge Fell Church within, a mile of the Public | had his nephew Edward construct a Square, and among this number was a ! grate at once, which was put in the fol- daughter of Jhdge Jesse Fell, and at ! lowing day. There was a great rush of ! people to see the wonderful fire, causing this time they held their meetings in a small school house near where the old as much exictement as though it were fire-proof stood. The subscriptions the first steamboat. There was more or were for a meeting house, not naming less prejudice against coal, as the fol¬ a denomination. It was»occupied joint¬ lowing will indicate: Eleazer Black¬ ly by Methodists and Presbyterians. man living back by the mountain had The Methodists held regular services in , quantities of coal on his grounds and the court house, except quarterly meet¬ it was known that it would bum. ings at which time they occupied Squire Jamison asked him one day why the regular church. In the final finish he did not burn coal and he said: “Oh, ing up of the building, grandfather I want a fire I can force.” W. B. D. Carey and unffle David Richards were active and laisge contributors. A lot I have had handed me an interesting tery was finally devised as a means of old blank deed recalling what in the paying the debt. Grandfather Carey, early part of the century promised to Uncle David Richards, Mr. Truman, be a thriving community at the “great Dorrance and others went security for falls of the Lehi,”—Stoddartsville. The good faith in same, but for some rea¬ deed is on parchment, printed in Phila- son the money did not hold out and it delnhia, in a manner that would reflect devolved upon Messrs. Carey, Rich¬ credit on any modern job office. Stod- ards and Truman to pay the deficiency, dartville had been laid out into build¬ $4,000, which they paid into the bank ing lots and John Stoddart had erected every sixty days, making for a long a splendid mill there, where the grain time dark times for them. Finally the; of Luzerne County might find a ready Presbyterians refused the Methodists outlet for the Easton and Philadelphia any use of the house even for sacra¬ market. Through no fault of John Stod¬ mental seasons. The result was they dart, who sunk a fortune there by sent for grandfather Marble, who went trusting to the unkept promises of the up, marched in and told them that they Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. to make were going to hold meetings there and Stoddartsville the head of their slack- sent and got a lock put on one of the water navigation system, the hopes of doors. Some of the gentlemen opposed its projector were never realized. In told him that he better put a lock on the deeds the grantors were John Stod¬ the other door, he telling them no, that dart and Rebecca, his wife. The in¬ they were welcome to that one. The re¬ teresting old parchment is sent me by ply then was made that they did not Joseph M. Stoddart of Philadelphia, son think that both congregations could of John Stoddart. Mr. Stoddart spends hold meetings there. He advised them his summers at Stoddartsville in a pretty little cottage only a few rods

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from the “great falls of the Leni,” :EMARKABLE FRONTIER THIEF. where a great town was projected and a great mill built, the ruins of which are still standing. John F. Meginness (“John of Lancas¬ * * * ter”), author of the History of the West Persons who are ransacking old fam¬ Branch contributed tll3 fiollowing arti¬ ily bibles and works on genealogy to cle to the historical colfan|n of the Har¬ establish a pedigree that will entitle them to membership in some patriotic risburg Telegraph: society or another will naturally con¬ “About the close of the Revolutionary clude that a certain young man in New War a notorious character named Dis- York City has more than his share. berry lived about Selinsgrove and Sun- He is reported to have on record in ’bury. He was possessed of great phy¬ the patriotic societies the services of sical strength, and had few superiors sixty-nine grandfathers of different de¬ in running, jumping and skating. But grees who served in the Colonial Wars, nine who served in the Revolution, in thieving and lying he was considered and one who served in the War of 1812. a match for the prince of darkness j Several of the above were killed in ac- himself. ! tion, several were wounded, and reso¬ “It is not positively known whence lutions were passed by the General this remarkable man came. Tradition l Court in recognition of the services of says that he was a native of Connecti¬ | some of the others. This young man, 1 cut. In that event he might have been ! on his father’s side, is a member of the among the emigrants to Wyoming, but Mayflower Society, and on his mother’s, on account of his evil propensities was ! of the Huguenot Society. He himself banished to- Sunbury as a punishment is a lieutenant in one of the provisional to Dr. Piunket and his people, for whom regiments raised for the war with the Wyomingites bore no love. Neither Spain. is it known whether he had any family, * * * or property worth speaking of. His National Soldiers’ Home, Va., criminal record, however, would fur¬ Jan. 18, 1899. nish material for a first-class romance. “So bold was he that, according to Editor Record: reminiscences preserved by early set¬ I am reminded by reading your in¬ tlers, he was known to enter the teresting Historical Column that there kitchen of a dwelling when the family ! are two old graves at Minooka or were in bed, start up the fire, cook a Taylorville that have been obliterated meal and eat at his leisure. If dis¬ by the D. L. & W. R. R. Buried there turbed fn this agreeable occupation ! are two pioneers who were killed by i the Indians, while fleeing to Connecti¬ he relied on his swiftness of foot to escape. cut. They were pointed out to me in j 1836 by an old Revolutionary soldier “At length Joe became so notorious on account of his thieving propensities named Hughes, also by John Atherton, that the whole settlement was up in Elias Scott and other old settlers. I arms against him, and he was finally j saw the graves as late as 1850. I think arrested and imprisoned in the jail at the spot ought to be marked. Sunbury. But as the jail—which was I am a veteran of the civil war, 72 the first one built in Northumberland j years old, and was born in Wyoming county—was not very secure, he quickly- Valley, and remember when some of escaped and the sheriff offered a reward ! the towns now there were only a for his apprehension. He took refuge wilderness. on the ‘Isle of Que’ and concealed him¬ W. D. Moore. self in a thicket of bushes, where he * * * fancied himself secure. He might have The Record has received a pamphlet remained undiscovered and escaped, 1 of 140 pages entitled “A brief history of but for his inordinate love of perpe¬ the ancestors and descendants of John trating jokes. Lying on the watch near Roseboom (1739-1805), and Jesse John¬ the road cut through the thicket, Joe son (1745-1832), compiled by Catharine heard the footsteps of a horse, and Roseboom, Dr. J. Livingstone Rose- J slyly peeping from his covert espied boom, Rev. H. U. Swinnerton and the sheriff’s wife approaching on horse¬ ! Joseph H. White.” back. He at once stepped into the As stated in the preface the object of road, and pulling off his hat made a I the book is to preserve to the descend¬ polite bow, when he suddenly disap¬ ants of Hendrick Janse Roseboom of peared in the bushes. The lady hurried ! Albany, N. Y., and Capt. John Johnson on to Selinsgrove and g3|e the alarm. of Roxbury, Mass., whatever informa¬ A party headed by Georg^i Kremer was tion is obtainable regarding their early immediately formed and went tc -the ! history in America, and secondly to af- inland in pursuit of Joe. Guided by i ford as complete a record as possible of the. lady’s instructions, Kremer went I the families comprising the later gen- to the spot and soon had the culprit I erations, from the time when the two in custody. He was taken back to jail, lines were united by the marriage of ftfied and sentenced, and his sentence Abraham Roseboom and Ruth John¬ is one of the strangest found in the- son, in Cherry Valley, N. Y., in 1806. annals of criminal history in Penhsyl- The first American settler of this : vania, ! branch of the Johnson family was Capt. “In the quarter • sessions docket for John Johnson, who probably came from September term, 1784, the record shows England with the fleet of John that Joe was arraigned on the charge Winthrop, who arrived at Salem, Mass., of felony, tried and found guilty. The ! j in 1630. He settled in Roxbury, Mass. jury was composed as follows: Peter ! I One of his five children was Capt. rsaac, Ho-sterman, Adam Grove, George Shaf- !& . ! who was killed by the Indians in King fer, Philip Frick, John Harrison, , Philip’s warj FRANKLIN. Tig “A 148

Michael Grove, William Clark, Adam Christ, Robert Irwin, Paul Baldy, John monwealth, and un Shaffer, Alexander McGrady. The sen¬ of seven years for tence of the court which still stands mitted in the hou^< out boldly on the record is as follows: ana be committed “ ‘Judgment, that the sa.id Joseph rection, pay the Disberry receive thirty-nine lashes be¬ etc.’ tween the hours of 8 and 9 o’clock to¬ “The court then sentenced him on the morrow, to stand in the pillory one two other indictments/ seven years hour; to have his ears cut off and nailed each. Joe, who was listening very at-.J to the post; to return the property ten lively, remarked rather jocosely: stolen, or the value thereof; remain in ‘Why, your honor, three sevens make three months;pay a fine of £30 to the twenty-one!’’ honorable the president of this State , “Judge Rush then continued: ‘That •for the support of the Government, the defendant be conveyed to the gaol and stand convicted until fine, fees, and penitentiary house of the city of Philadelphia to undergo the servitude etc., are paid.’ “This remarkable- sentence shows the aforesaid for the term of twenty-one estimate that pas put on Joe as a crimi¬ years. And that the said Joe Disberry nal. The whipping- post and pillory be kept for the space of two years in stood in the open square in Sunbury the solitary cells out of the term of and the spot can still be pointed out. twenty-one years.’ “Col. Henry Antes was the sheriff at “This remarkable criminal served his that time and directed the whipping, long sentence and returned in 1819 to if he did not do it himself. There is his old haunts about Sunbury and no record to show who did the ear crop¬ Selin’s Grove, an aged man, but as ping, but as the surgical operation fell merry as a cricket. Being a natural- to the sheriff also, it is probable that he born thief, he could not resist the .temptation to steal everything ne could did it. his hands on. The date of his “John Buyers was the president of unknown. But Dr. Awl, the ;the court at that time, assisted by n’ian of Sunbury, says that it associates, and the duty of imposing n this wise: -Some time after the sentence fell on him. The court from serving his long sen- met, according to- the entry in the went one night to a mill in docket, on the fourth Tuesday of Au¬ Jounty to steal flour, and falling gust, 1784, and as the trial took place (h a hatchway sustained injuries at once, the sentence was carried out on Wednesday. ■h resulted in his death. It is said when they came to bury nirn, the “Among the jurors were several men wner of the mill insisted that he who were prominent as Indian fighters Should be buried deep, ‘for’ said he, ‘if ' ; and participants in the war for liberty. Peter Hosterman, foreman, was acti/e it is not done he will return and s'eal as a militia officer and had command mill, dam and all!’” of a body of militia to- watch and repel savage attacks. Adam and Michael INDIAN CAPTIVES FROM PENN¬ -Grove were famous as Indian Scouts, SYLVANIA. and the latter, only a short time before he served on this jury, was one of A 'company that pursued a party of Below are some extracts of a letter marauding Indians up Sinnemahoning. written to "Franklin” by Diedrich Will- Discovering their'camp they stealthily ers, Fayette, N. Y., making inquiries of approached at night, rushed upon certain Indian captives supposed to be them, surprised them, captured their from Pennsylvania. Perhaps some ot arms and killed several. The balance our readers are posted on the matter: escaped. The Grove brothers then * * lived in Buffalo Valley, now Union One Andrew McKnight died inVarick, County. July 19, 1837, aged 78 years. It is “This severe sentence, it seems, did claimed by his descendants that he was not cure Joe Disberry of his thieving captured at the age of 16 or 17 years, propensities, for the quarter sessions and was held in captivity by the Six docket for, August term, 1798, (Northum¬ . Nations of Indians some six or seven berland County), shows that he was years, commencing about 1778 or 17/9. '\ arraigned and tried on three indict¬ He is’ known to have been a Pennsyl¬ ments for burglarizing the houses of vanian. Philip Bower, Peter Jones and Isaiah Michael Vreeland and William Chat¬ Willits, and convicted on eaciT. The ham (or Chattim), both early settlers jurors who found him guilty on each , of Fayette and Pennsylvanians, also count were: John Clark, John Metz- i suffered Indian captivity. Mr. Chatham gar, John FriAbach, George Clark, ’ died in 1854, aged 96 years, and Mr. John Armstrong, John Cochran, Thomas Vreeland died in Michigan at an ad¬ Murray, Christian Gettig, John Dewart, vanced age. Georg-e Bright, Peter Desher, Homelius The name of Vreeland, was sometimes LorrYison. times written Freeland—and I think his “•Judge Jacob Rush was on the bench ancestry were participants at Fort the/n, assisted by William Wilson. John Freeland in July 1779. McPherson, Thomas Strawbridge and Plon John B. Linn, in his History ot William Coke as associates. Robert Buffalo Valley, Pa., 1877, gives an ac¬ ,Irwin was high sheriff of the county. count of the capture of Fort Freeland, Judge Rush, on sentencing Disberry, in which Indians were a part of the said: ‘That the prisoner, Joseph Dis- British forces. b/erry, forfeit all and singular his At page 176, he says Michael Free¬ .roods and chattels, lands and tene¬ land was made prisoner. 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The constable is notified men. that if he cannot find effects enough to If you can kindly give me any in- satisfy the debt he must take defend¬ | formation as to McKnight, Vreeland ant to the "Gaol of this county,” there and Chatham, either through the I to be safely kept until he liquidates I Record or by letter, I will be pleased to ! debt and costs. Hitchcock came receive the information through either promptly to time with a payment on I source. . * * * account a few weeks later. The jus¬ tices fee was 60 cents, the executive j OLD1 REVOLUTIONARY COMMIS- costs 20 cents and the constable’s fee MISSIONS. was 20 cents. * * * Interesting old documents are in the i possession of Charles L. Bulkeley. One PRICE OP ARNOLD’S TREASON. [ is a. commission to Eliphalet Bulkeley in 1773 as captain in the 3d train band While the facts of Arnold’s treason of the 12th Regiment of the Colony of are known to every schdol boy, the I Connecticut. It is signed by “Jonathan j ay compiler of this column does not re¬ Trumbull, captain-general and com¬ leath member to have ever seen printed the mander in chief of His Majesty’s Col- ocal histe compensation which that misguided I ony of Connecticut in New England.” i-ccurred i general received for his attempt to be- Another is dated 1780, signed by the Lis retur tray West Point to the British. The j same officer, but the War of the Revo¬ ence, h-' Pennsylvania Magazine, published lution had been fought in the meantime, Jnion C quarterly by the Historical Society of, and Connecticut was no longer a colony hraw Pennsylvania, contains a particularly of Great Britain. Captain Bulkeley had wrr interesting article on this matter, as merited advancement and he was ap¬ told in letters of Sir Henry Clinton to pointed lieutenant colonel of the 25th Lord George Germaine. Some of these - j Regiment of militia; the commission tf letters appear for the first time in ! being signed “Jonathan Trumbull, gov¬ print. One of them marked “Secret” ernor and commander in chief of the ’ specifies the sum Arnold received as the | State of Connecticut in America.” Note price of his treason at £6,315 sterling.* the difference in the language. Another most interesting feature of this In another frame is a deed, dated letter is that the British are shown to 1738, of Patience Bulkeley of Colchester,* have been fostering a scheme by which .County of Hartford and Colony of I they hoped to be able to bribe sufficient Connecticut to his son John. The deed-, members of Congress or influential offi¬ was executed during the reign of George if cers of Washington’s army as to en¬ the Second, of England. * * * sure the success of the British arms.. Sir Henry Clinton is compelled to con¬ THE BUTLER SPRING. fess that the amount paid Arnold is large, and advantage gained has been On their way back to Niagara after small, but there is nobody to blame, the Wyoming Massacre of 1778, Col.! as he (Clinton) had merely acted in Butler and his army camped at a place; accordance with the secret instructions about one mile north of Lake Silkworth of Lord Germaine written a year pre¬ at a beautiful cold spring among a vious, for it will be remembered that cluster of pine trees. It is in Lehman Arnold had been carrying on his trea¬ Township. The spring has ever since sonable negotiations for fully as long been known as the Butler spring; it is as that. The letter follows: situated on the farm of Ira Bronson. “Secret. It is noted for its abundance of water¬ “New York, Oct. 30, 1780. cress which grows along the outlet. “My Lord: C»C„ Loyalville. “My letter of the 11th Inst, will in¬ * * a I form your Lordship of my Treaty with The pretty body of water called Lake Major General Arnold. We have not, Silkworth, formerly Three Cornered I confess, derived from it the very great Pond, lies near the western limit of advantages which I expected. The Plan Lehman Township, about ten miles unfortunately miscarried, and I have almost due west of Wilkes-Barre and paid to that officer the sum of £6,315 about seven miles southeast of Dallas. Ster., as a Compensation for the losses It is probable that Col. John Butler, he informs me he has sustained by in withdrawing his expedition , from coming over to us, which may in con¬ Wyoming did not follow the river di¬ sequence seem large, but your Lord¬ rect, but took a short cut across the. ship having intimated to me in your I country, so ias to strike the Susque¬ secret letter of the 27th of September, hanna in thg vicinity of Tunkhannock. 1779, that the gaining over of some of 1 It is not unlikely that his line of march the respectable Members of the Con¬ included the spring mentioned above, gress or Officers of Influence and Repu- the army then turning northward oast — tatfon among their troops, would, next to the destruction of Washington’s army, be the speediest means af sub duing the Rebellion and restoring the Tranquility of America, I was encour¬ aged to make the attempt, and I have no doubt, that this Expense, as Your Lordship has been pleased to observe, will be cheerfully submitted to. “I have the honor to be, with great¬ est respect. Your Lordship’s most obe¬ dient and most horrible Servant, “H. Clinton.” The Pennsylvania Magazine is one of the few historical works which affords the reader the luxury of a detailed in¬ dex, every name and place mentioned being specified. The price is $3 a year and the address is 1,300 Locust street/ Philadelphia. ^ FRANKLINy

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From uditor-Gbnebal Gregg and State Treasurer Morrison, who, with the Governor, compose the Board ot Public Buildings, in charge of the new library building to be erected at Harrisburg, will visit the large library buildings of Date, GJLJ. xr/rfst Philadelphia, New York and Boston be¬ fore having any plans made. They will e accompanied by the State Librarian, Dr. W. H. Esle. The country has had abundant experience in the building BASE |EL IN HARRISBURG and arranging of libraries, and the State should have the full benefit of this ex¬ A History of the Nation. perience. Fortunately, the matter is in good hands. Capital of the State.

ITS EVOLUTIONS SINCE 1862.

From the Time when the Best Citizens Appeared on the Diamond Down to the Middle States League Team of 1890.

Special Despatch to The Press. Harrisburg, April 2d.—The history of I _ ES1JNUI olKJiET. base ball at the Pennsylvania capital is the I ■I occasionally see d” WiiTiam H. history of the game itself. Twenty-eight of Harrisburg, who for so many years years ago, almost at the very time the game \ the State Librarian. He has not was being erytallized and made a scientific / weight, but he has plenty of sport, Harrisburg had a base ball club; a admirably fitted for the position' made up of Pennsylvania Railroad em¬ 2 oeei !e was at one time - a prac- ployees, who came here from Philadelphia in Harrisburg, and lias long and vicinity and held positions in editor of the excellent publication theoffice of the Philadelphia and Middle iwn as “American Notes and Queries.” division of the company. It is of record that the first game of base ball ever played in Harrisburg was during the war, in 1862, vheji the cities of Altoona and Harrisburg battled for supremacy. The first , From, game was played on a vacant lot North of the Pennsylvania round-house, now gridironed by the many railroad tracks. The Altoona Club came here on a special car, 1 . was duly defeated and feasted and sent home. The second game was played in Al¬ toona, and then, too, the Harrisburg Club Fate, won the game. It is significant that the clubs of these two cities in 1890 are regarded as the strongest in Jjff.PABLE negeigenoe or else indicfc- the Middle States League and * ignorance appears to intervene likely to worry each other a great deal dur¬ ^undue frequency at Harrisburg,to ing the present season. It was directly after " the spirit,by mutilating the text the war that base ball took such a firm hold in Harrisburg. In 1806 the famous Tyrolean enacted there. Dr. Egle’s dis- Club was organized and directly afterward the Keystones sprung up. v V ^U^rndfaVher, was settler on the banks of the na liver where Harrisburg now and the father ot John H“"B’ founder o' Harrisburg. He kept « tie store and traded with the Indi one dark and rainy night a large diau came to his door and begged shelter. He was permitted to dry self by the fire and sleep there, '

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