Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-06-17
-o.s OLD NEWSPAPERS.
worth Their weight la Gold, and
beg a. preSeFvea Carefully.

a. worth Their weight III holdb ana
Fl fhn are Preserved Carefully.
,..extremely interesting to read In
a.snapers OF the last century the
ne NE there given OF events. which
'F,ard as historic. Away up on tho
W. oor of the Boston Athen9um is
pppeoll.nreserved file of these old news
worth to-day their weight in
Pp. Here are a number Of bound vol.
s~s Of The New England Chronicle
.,be Essex Gazette, quaint publica-
.r.n which later on was called the indie.
wa naont Chronicle and Universal Adyer.
In 1775 it bore tho imprint Of
assmpel Hall. Harvard College" A
,,..lo later it was said to be printed by
s.u,nel Hall at his office next to the
0,,aor Cromwell Tavern in School
vat Still later the name Of Hall
,.,nneared and 1T bore the name OF
apoyars and Willis at their Office op-
site .he new court house, Queen
irtreet" The issue of this queer old
amer for March 81, ire, Qtwas printed
sTseklyl is very interesting, especially
~ those Bostonians who saw the flags
soating from the city stats yesterday
and remembered that is was Evacuation
a.v Read what it says:
aLast Sabbath the British army in
Roston, under General Howe, consisting
ofupward of 1000 men, after suffering
an irnCminious blackade for many
months past, disgraceiully quilted all
their strongholds in Boston and Charles
town. fed from before the army of the
United Colonies, and took refuge on
hoard their ships. The most material
PARTICULARS of this signal event are as
ALLOWS: About nine o'clock body of
ina enemy we're seen to march from
Bunker Hill, and, at the same time, a
,ery great number of boats, filed with
,-oops, put off from Boston and made
for the shipping. which mostly lay below
the Castle. On the first discovery OF
these movements the Continental army
Immediately paraded, several regiment.
embarked in boats and proceeded down
the river from this place.
"About the same time two men were
sent to Bunker's Hill in order to make
dscoveries. They proceeded accord
ingly, and when arrived making signal
that the fort was evacuated, a detach,
ment was Immediately sent down from
the army to take possession of e. Tho
troops in the river, which were com
handed by General Putnam, landed al
Sewall's Point, where they received in
elligence that all the British troops
had left Boston, on which detachment
was sent to take possession of the town,
while the main body returned up the
river. About the same time Genera
Ward, attended by about 800 troops from
Roxbury, under the command of Colonel
Ebenezer Learned (who unbarred and
opened the gatesl, entered the towr
from that quarter, Ensign Rlchards
carrying the standard.
THE command Of the whole being
then given to General Putnam, he pro
ceeded to take possession Of all the i'm
portant posts, and thereby became pos
sessed, in the name of the ThirteeT
United Colonies of North America, 0.
all the fortresses in that largo and once
populous and Furnishing metropolis
which the flower of the British army
headed by an experienced general ano
suppOI leu Ny loII4udule HeGJ Oh meu'
of-war, had but an hour before evacuated
in the most precipitate and cowardly
manner. God grant that the late worthy
Inhabitants, now scattered abroad, may
speedily reoccupy their respective dwell
lngs and never more be disturbed by
the cruel hand of tyranny; and may TIN
air of that capital be never again con
animated by the sinking breath o.
Toryism. - Boston Advertiser.