The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-06-19
July Magazines.

Harper's.
The July Harper's claims to be one of the
finest numbers ever issued. 1t contains over
ninety beautiful engravings, illustrating
seven different articles, contributed by lead
ing authors of the day. 1t opens with a
splendidly illustrated paper by Mrs. Spatford
on Newburyport, Mass, claiming for that old
town, at the mouth of the Merrimac, us rich
a literary and historic record as that claimed
for Concord IN the June Harper. Here, says
Mrs. SpaTord
Arrold's Expedition against Quebec re-
cruited and sailed, with It's dashing young Off
Ger, Aaron Burr; and here were built and
manned not only the very first of the priva-
,ecrs-twenty.two of which, with thousand
men, were never heard from after sailing
but many others which raked British com
merce to the value of millions in this port,
and the sloop Wasp, which fought as iiercely
as her namesakc fights in three months cap
turing thirteen merchantmen, engaging tour
! ships VI the line, and, finally, after bitter
| struggle, going down with all her men at the
guns, and all her colors flying.
lis claim Of great names in literature,
law and politics is still more imposing. For
example:
Here the weighty jurlst, Theophilus Par
sons, was born and bred, and, studying law
with him, Robert Treat Paine and Rufus
King and John Quincy Adams passed the
days of their early manhood. Here also
came the gentle and gallant band of the state
| " old French refugees, some from San Do
mingo, some from the Barbados, and
some from France, of whom so many legends
are still cherished; here lived Talleyrand,
next the house of Lord Timothy Dexter
| from here Brissot went back 10 France, to
lose his head on the scafiold of the Giron-
| dists; here Whiteficld preached and
died and lies entombed; here died Josiah
Bartlett, one of the signers of the Declare.
ton of Independence; here Cushing rose,
and Garrison and Cough; here the great
gIyer, George Peabody, once dwelt, and OF
len came and made large requests :, here be
longed another philanthropist, William
Nheelwright, the author of the great system
of South American railways; here JOIN
lPrrpont wrote his best verses, and here Han
nah f. Gould and sweet Lucy Hooper sung
here Harriet Livermore, that ardent mission
airy of the East, whom S8OtrbGuad celebrates
was born; here James Parton makes his sum
mer home; here Leonard Wilmington has
GnrHVclcu the rapt mystery Ol the song O
Solomon; here the artist Bricher first founC
Inspiration; here the Lowells sprung; her,
the Jacksons, famous in mechanics, in phys
les, and in law; here the Tyngs her,
the Springs; here the Chascs and her,
Master Nicholas Pike, the author of tn,
first American arithmetic. Hardly NOR,
j. than gunshot Off on oac side is tn,
c ancestral home of the Longfelows, and OF
the other Whittier lives and sings II is, In
!, decd, the principal point IN such interests
of that region of the Merrimac which, witt
its Longfellows, Lowells, Feltons, Whipple:
e Storys, Adamses, Websters Parsonses, Choate.
z Pheipses, Emersons Thoreaus, Hawthorne,
?. lAlcotts, Whiitiers, all of whom, with no,
9 Iof others, belong either TO the banks of III
= Merrimac and It's tributaries or TO its nea
neighborhood, has some right to consider i
self the Attic region of America.
N There is one feature about Newburypor
!" however, which at times must have made
very eligible place TO emigrate IRON.
nd has very unpleasant way of being period
'ei. cally shook up by earthquakes They We
alffst noticed iast three years after The tow