Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1817-03-11


which is 20 be Conducted with all the forms OF
| regal magnifcence, and anti-republican cereu1o-
mails.
HANOVER, VI ARCH 1911.
The following plain statement of the very extra
ordinary events which have. within a week, occur
red in this place, is furnished by correspondent
On Friday, the @8th ult. DR.. Cyl s Perkins,
Professor cf Anatomy &c. in Dartmouth College,
and Col. Amos A. Brewster, Justice 81 the Peace.
called on President Bro N and made a demand og
the kew ofihe Chapel of the Institution. ] hey
produced a vote Of the Trustees Of the University,
appointing them and Col. James Poole, representa-
tive Of this town 10 the State Legislature super
intendants of the College buildings. The key of
course refused
On Saturday following, tue tst lust. the above
named three gentlemen, claiming 70 be committee
OF Snperintendants, procured two mea, the one a
stone layer the other Joiner, proce ded 10 the
chapel, introduced one of their number into wia-
dow, forced the door, and put lock of their
own procuring. They then proceeded - the prin-
cipaI College building, were soon after head at
work ~ the upper story. apparently with han
mers, augers chisels and hatchets; aud about bali
an hour after this were found in No C upper story
the bell-raom. Z" =
The implements, by which ,bav made their : ~ in
80 the ROOM Law near the dor, They put upon
the door lock of their own. A short time after
they were found n the museum TO the number of 3
or TO Il is believed they had the key of this
room. About this time they sent demand for the
key y the college library. They, as was expect
ed were refused.
fl securing, as they supposed, the passage into
the betry, they came nown into the middle story,
forced with bar of iron the door of the library J;
and Justice Brewster and Col. Poole took posses
sion. his door too was secured by new lock.
After having been in the library short time with
the men, who had broken open the door, they left
| he college buildings 1t was observed, that DIR,
| Perkins was not present, when the violence was
offered to the library although he was present,
when preparations were making for it.
Nearly midnight of the cd inst. Sunday night
pounding was heard in the lower story of college.
On repairing TO the place, Amos A. Brewster,
Esq. Col. james Poole, and Lemuel Cook, the
stone-layer above mentioned, were found with
candle, hammer aad nails the door of the PHI
losophy room, and nail apparently just driven
obiquely into the KEY of the door, IN man
ner sometimes, we believe, called spiking The
three gentlemen Immediately went into the upper
| story. Shortly after more pounding was heard be-
| low and two gentlemen, who happened at that
moment to be passing out of college, saw, the
door Of the philosophy room, the same Esquire
/ Brewster, and Col. Poole, with DR.. Perkins who
| was united with them, as mentioned above to take
care of the college buildings, and to prevent all
kinds of damage They had driven another nail
| into the key-hole OF the philosophy room, and
| stub or wide piece of Iron, into the kev-hoe Of
Society Hall. The three gentlemen committee
Immediately left the building; Col. Poole went
homeward, but Professor Perkins and ESQ he
Brewster, directed their course towards the late
President Wheeock,s.