The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-03-03
A nEYoLrrIoNAnY nrLIc.

A REVOLUTIONARY RELIC.
Mr., kelsey, of the Planters House,
81. Louis, has an interesting aud yalu.
able relic of the Revolution, which he
proposes to forward to the Centennial.
The Rcpu6iicm thus describes IT,
1t Is bound copy of two years
numbers of the Boston gazette and
| CoHHttY JoUrRdi, comprising a weekly
issue nom January o, l777, To Deceni-
her Is, Tvs. II purports, under the
heading 60 contain the freshest adj.
Vices, foreign and domestic, aud was
printed 10y Benjamin Edes, in Queen
street, Boston. The volume is rs legI.
BILE rs when first issued from the press
although the letters are blurred,
The tocsln OF war Is ringing on every
hand, the successive numbers contain.
ing accounts Of skirmishes and out.
RACES committed 10y British aud Tories
We have full accounts OF the battles of
Trenton, the surrender Of Burgoyne
aud the massacre at Wyoming. Wash
lngton Is out In proclamation offer
ing n pardon to deserlers nom the
army, II they report at specified time.
The advertisements brlstle with war,
of which the following are samples.
wanted, Immediately, for the use
of the Continental army, 800 weight of
brown thread, and two tons of
swingled tow, suitable to make slow
match. Any person who can supply
the whole or part shall have u gener.
Gus price given 10y
"TH0s. CHASE, A. q, NJ. a.
"To be sold at vendue, at BENJAMIN
Burdck's, in Marblehead, on Friday,
10Th January, at 10 o'clock, before
noon, tour double-forthed four pound
ers, four swivel guns, a few barrels of
beef and some gun-powder."
Numerous addresses by Congress,
signed by John Hancock, are calculated
to stimulate the patriots and urge them
to renewed sacrifices in the cause of
their country. Running through the
numbers are the Junius letters, printed
fresh from the mint as they were re-
ceived from Eugland also the celebra.
ted papers of Tom Payne, entitled,
"The American Crisis, 10y the author
of Comm0n-Sense,n the first number
which occurs in the Issue of January /.
I'LL. Also are published the IIutchin.
son letters, the first one underdated
October 20, l7G4, which were distracted
from the estate Office in London and
forwarded to America by DR.. Frank
linz These letters excited much in.
terest in their day.
The Tories were having a hard time
of it. Many had escaped, leaving their
wives and property behind, for which
they were deeply distressed. A batch
of intercepted letters from this class
of recusant citizens fell into the hands
of Governor Wentworth, of New
Hampshire, which are published. The
following is quoted rs sample, which
seems to have fling at somebody:
"EXTER, March 25, l777.
Extract of letter from John
Cochran to his wife, dated January II,
1867.
" | shall either hope to find you ut
the Isle of Shoals or up at London
derry. lfyou intend to tarry where
you are | pray for Gods sake that
there be no,clergymen. in the housed {
there is your life is not worth a farth-
ing, as the blood of the whole race OF
that tribe will be split"
The poetry intersr ersed through the
volume is principally of the elegaic de-
scription, and the patriotic ehusion $
are vapid and boasting. Heavy squibs
Of doggerel are fired at General
Rurpoyna on his arrival after the