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can be no doubt. And yet there was a method in their madness so cunningly carried out that it deceived many far more enlightened. A writer speaking upon the subject says, "It is but justice to the inhabitants of New England to observe that, though the present age may cens

en up on suspicion, and actually hanged, as an accomplice of his master, who was accused of witchcraft!22 This act capped the climax of folly. People began to wonder if such things could be; and they actually took the case of the dog into serious consideration, and then came to this very wise conclusion,-that

e materially neglected; but when the gloom which fanaticism had cast over this portion of the colonies had

f these from a picture seen in our boyhood days. It was in the good old State of Pennsylvania, not many miles from the city of Philadelphia, and while trudging on our way to the village school, this living picture presented itself. A tall, gaunt man sat on a tall, gaunt horse; he came riding slowly up the road,-this was not, as now, a fast age: his hair was partly gray, and fell in tow-looking ringlets down and around his long, sinewy neck. Over the horse's back was swung a large, well-filled pair of saddle-bags.

and then as clerk, and whose early vocations in life were in no manner identified with public men and public institutions. But what will not revulsions in trade, politics, and governments effect! Equally strange, too, that forty years after the little incident

riders, or rather government messengers, ran frequent risks. Captain Hutchinson started July 4, 1665, sent by the Governor of Massachusetts with letters constituting him a commissioner to treat with the Narragansetts. The "letter system" failed to conciliate the tribe, as they had openly declared for Phil

, and placed posts and made routes to the extent of the commercial interest of the State. This gave general satisfaction to those who were interested in this mode

which he obtained a patent and the profits accruing. Afterwards he sold it to the crown, and a member of Parliament was appointed for the whole, with

gdom beyond the seas, and "at which office all returns and answers may be likewise received. For the better managing, ordering, collecting, and improving the revenue, and also for the better computing and setting the rates of letters according

substantially built. The great Trinity Church, so called then, was erected in 1695.24 A library was established there in 1700, and the post-office, as stated above, in 1710. The post-horse system,

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e infested the Northern colonies have been also troublesome here; few families have escaped the same; several have been carried off by the cold, among whom was David Brintnall, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. He was the first man that had a brick ho

garden in front. The first house erected in Philadelphia was a wooden one, on the east side of Front Street, a little north of the place now called "Little Dock Street," and is said not to have bee

dated 1704, says that "she was two weeks in riding with the postman, as her guide, from Boston to New York. In most of the towns she

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d horses, with sober drivers. They purpose to set off from Philadelphia on Mondays and Thursdays punctually at sunrise, and to be in Prince-Town the same nights, and change passengers, and return to New York and Philadelphia the following days. The passengers are desired to cross Powlass Hook Ferry the evening before. The waggon is not to stay after sunrise. Price, each passenger, from Powlass Hook to Prince Town, ten shillings; fr

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d at a cost of ￡900. There were eight of them, and their aggregate weight was eight thousand pounds, the tenor bell weighing eighteen hundred pounds. In 1777, fearful of their falling back again into English hands, they were taken down and conveyed to Allentown, Pennsylvania, for "safe keeping." After the evacuation of the city they were replaced, and have been ringing joyfully ever since. They pealed forth in gladsome sounds when the old State-House Bell sounded its note

eople and a nation been severely punished? Established on a basis of crime and carried out in a spirit of fiendish ferocity, they dared call it a "divine institution." For this fearful error on the part of those eminent men who framed that docu

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Eleazer Mosely, who died in 1833, aged seventy-three years. He established a post by raising subscription

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matter: it was hardly an affair to be robbed. It was carried by a boy, who took the whole in saddle-b

as announced, "opened everyday save Saturday afternoons, an

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ice by General Washington. The room used as an office was twenty-five to thirty-five feet in length, and contained one hundred boxes. In 1827 it was in the basement of the "Merchants' Exchange," occupying two-thirds of that extensive space. The Merchants' Exchange is situated on Wall Stre

business-like appearance. There is many a lager-beer establishment can compete with almost any post-office in this country in point of those attractive qualities in architectural design in which they are so totally deficient. In this, however, w

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d, the publisher of the "Maryland Journal," and John Holt, the printer, was appointed postmaster.

r one of the first acts of its members was to send, through this office, threatening letters to the leading members of

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shed the "New York Gazette and Post-Boy" in company with James Parker. He started another paper shortly after his arrival in New York. When the British took possession of the city, he left it, and published his journal

t shafts with; and justice, having awarded him all prais