loyalty to the general government, founded by the solemn compact of sovereign but united

states.

"The patriots who deposed Philip the Second were the great originals of those who in the next century dethroned Charles the First, and in the century following rejected George the Third. From Holland came William, the deliverer of England from the tyrant James. The declaration of the independence of the United Provinces of the Netherlands was the glorious model of the English declaration of right, and of the grander declaration of the independence of United Colonies of North America. The Union of Utrecht was the nobler examplar of the Philadelphia articles of confederation. The Dutch motto: Eendragt macht Magt' — Unity makes Might-suggested our ownE Pluribus Unum.'

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"All these teachings of Dutch history are the peculiar heritage of our own Empire state. was the proud destiny of New York to temper the narrow and sometimes fanatical characterics of her English sister plantations with the larger and more conservative principles which she had herself derived from Holland. It was her lot to sustain more severe trials and gain a more varied experience than any other American colony.

Midway between the St, Lawrence and the Chesapeake she stood for almost a century, guarding her long frontier against the enmity and might of New France. And when at last the conquest of Canada filled the measure of British aggression and pampered still more the British lust of power, the augury of two hundred years ago was fulfilled; and New York-worthy to be distinguished as the Netherlands of Ameri- became the pivot province, on which hinged the most important movements of that sublime revolt against the oppression of England, the only paralled to which was the triumphant struggle that the forefathers of her first settlers maintained against the gigantic despotism of Spain."

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GULIAN C. VER PLANCK, Esq., proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Brodhead for his address, and to request a copy of it for publication.

The Hon. GEO. BANCROFT, in a few appropriate remarks, seconded the vote of thanks to Mr. Brodhead, which on being put from the chair, was unanimously adopted.

The benediction was then pronounced by Dr. DeWitt, the proceedings having been necessarily curtailed owing to the length of time occupied by the address, and the meeting adjourned to the rooms of the Historical Society, in 2d-av. Here a reception was given by the members of the New York Historical Society to their friends, and after a pleasant interval spent in an inspection of the pictures and curiosities in the Society's Museum, the guests descended to the refectory in the basement, where an elegant repast was provided, to which ample justice was done.

Several speeches were made during the course of the evening by the President, A. B. Street of Albany. P. Dawson of Buffalo, and Gen. John Cochrane. Gen. Cochrane was very warmly received, and expressed his pleasure at the meeting, which he hoped would do something to promote that national unity of race of which the orator of the day had spoken. He concluded by expressing his devotion to the National Union, and his confidence of its ultimate preservation.

The assembly shortly after dispersed, highly pleased with the evening's entertainment

LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Brooklyn, Oct. 6.-An extremely interesting meeting of this Society was held at their rooms on the corner of Court and Joralemon streets; the Hon. Judge Greenwood presiding. The attendance was large, and included some of the most wealthy and influential citizens of Brooklyn. Rev. Dr. Storrs submitted the annual report of the Executive Committee, which showed that the Society was in a most flourishing condition. Three new portraits of Adams, Franklin, and Red Jacket, purchased out of the Sheldon fund, were received, and ordered to be placed on exhibition. The society received as a contribution from Col. Barton the battle flag of the 48th regi. ment, for which the thanks of the society were tendered. Dr. Stiles, the librarian, submitted an extremely interesting report, from which it appeared that during the past four months the resources of the society have been augumented by the addition of 782 bound volumes, 1200 pamphlets, and several hundred interesting curiosities, all of which are on exhibition. The principal contributors were Alex. McCue, Esq., E. O. Kellogg, Esq., Gabriel Harrison, and E. S. Mills. An interesting paper, entitled Hints on Working the side mines of history," was read by Mr. John W. Cannington, and greatly enjoyed by the audience.

On the visit of the society to the country towns on the island, the town of Sutherland, through the board of town officers, presented the society with the original charter of the town, which was granted by Gov. Andros in 1676. This interesting relic with some 1,500 others, not less interesting, are on exhibition at the rooms of the society, which are well worth a visit.

PENNSYLVANIA.

PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.-Philadelphia, Oct. 10th.-The regular stated meeting of this Society was held at the Athenæum Building, Sixth and Adelphi streets. Owing to the near approach of the election, the attendence was small. At the appointed hour JOHN WILLIAM WALLACE, Esq., took the chair. The minutes

of the previous meeting were then read and adopted. A number of valuable works were presented to the Society, among which were the following: Memorial of JOHN ALLAN, presented by the Bradford Club. History of West Point and Military Academy; Industrial and Financial Resources of the United States; Story of the Constitution; ELLIOTT'S Debates; Discourses on the Family as an Element of Society; JoGUE'S Novum Belgium, 1643-4, and several other valuable works.

After the transaction of a few items of business of no public interest, the meeting adjourned.

MASSACHUSETTS.

NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, Boston, Wednesday, October 5 -A quarterly meeting of this society was held this afternoon, the President, Winslow Lewis, M. D., in the chair.

The corresponding secretary reported letters accepting resident membership from Andrew H. Ward of Newtonville, and Charles Colburn of Boston.

The librarian reported as donations since the last meeting, three volumes, twenty pamphlets, and six manuscripts.

Mr. Towne read an official notice of the bequest to the society by the late Hon. Henry W. Cushman, from his executor. It was voted to accept the legacy with the conditions of the will.

Rev. Caleb Davis Bradlee read on elaborate paper on the late Rev. T. Starr King, being a truthful and feeling tribute to that eloquent and devoted patriot and divine.

The Historiographer read biographical sketches of the following members of the society, who have recently deceased, viz: John Barstow, of Providence, R. I., a life member, Vice President of the society for Rhode Island, who died March 31, 1864, aged 73 years; Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Boston, an honorary member, who died at Quiney, July 2, 1864, aged 92 years, 5 months; and Sebastian Ferris Streeter, a corresponding member, Honorary Vice President of the society for Maryland, who died in Baltimore, Md., Aug. 23, aged 54.

One Vice President and two Honorary Vice Presidents of the society have deceased during the present year in the space of less than five months.

John W. Dean, Rev. Washington Gilbert, Rev. Dorus Clark, D. D., Rev. John T. Sargent and David Pulsifer, were chosen a committee to nominate officers for the next annual election.

OBITUARY.

DEATH OF SEBASTIAN F. STREETER, Esq. of Baltimore. He died at his residence on the

23d inst., of typhoid fever, undoubtedly contracted by his great exposures and labors among the Maryland soldiers in the army in front of Petersburg, Va.

Mr. Streeter was the son of Rev. Sebastian and Ruth (Richardson) Streeter, and was born in Weare, N. H., 7th July, 1810. On the removal of his father to Boston' he entered the public schools, from which he graduated with honor, being fitted for college at the Latin School under the late Benj. A. Gould, Esq.

After graduating at Harvard College in 1831, he for a time devoted himself to literary pursuits in this city, being for several years, from October, 1831, to September, 1836, sub-master of the Boston Latin School. He subsequently removed to Baltimore, where he established a high school for young ladies which proved eminently successful.

When the present rebellion broke out, he was found a firm friend of the Union cause and unremitting in his efforts to uphold the government in Maryland, and few men in civil capacity have rendered more efficient service to their country. By his exertions the Union Relief Association was organized early in the war, and proved a great blessing to the Union soldiers passing to and from the field.

To Mr. Streeter and his helping wife the country is also indebted for the establishment of various institutions in Maryland for the relief of the wounded in the hospitals and the sustenance of the soldiers' families. He did much as a member of the First Branch of the City Government of Baltimore, in shaping measures for the vigorous prosecution of the war and sustaining the Gov

ernment.

At the time of contracting his last sickness, he was acting as a commissioner under the appointment of the Governor of Maryland, to visit the sick and wounded soldiers in the field hosptials and furnish them with such assistance as their, helpless condition required.

On the 7th of July, 1833, Mr. Streeter married, at Plymouth, Elizabeth Morton Jackson, daughter of Daniel Jackson, Esq., of that town by whom he had a daughter, who with her mother live to mourn this great bereavement.

On the establishment of the Maryland Historical Society, Mr, Streeter became the Recording Secretary, an office which he filled with great acceptance; and at the seventh anniversary celebration of the society he delivered a discourse entitled "Maryland Two Hundred Years Ago, which was replete with learning and highly interesting and instructive.

In his adopted state and city he held many important offices in Aarious literary societies, and was an honorary Vice President of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society which holds its meetings in this city. As a teacher he was most instructive, as a historian most accurate, and as a Christian firm and consistent. Irreproachable in his private character, pleasing and

The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, By Rev. B. S. Schenck, D. D., an eye witness and a sufferer, with corroborative statements, &c. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1864, pp. 72.

This little memoir is a sad addition to the history of Chambersburg. With all the wars waged in this country since its settlment, there has never been such wholesale destruction and pillage as that of Chambersburg. The property amounted, it is clear, to at least a million and a half of dollars, and this was wantonly destroyed on ten minutes notice. With the peace will doubtless come such compensation as was made to the Connecticut men who settled the Fire Lands.

Mr. Schneck's account is full, clear and explicit. It gives the details of the scene, and closes with a list of the houses destroyed.

The Annals of Iowa. A Quarterly Publication by the State Historical Society of Iowa, October, 1864. Edited by Theodore S. Parvin, Corresponding Sect, Davenport, 1864.

The Annals come regularly from the far West. The present number opens with a sketch of Capt. Hosea B. Horn. This is followed by the continuation of his history of Davis County. The conclusion of Hon, Charles Mason's Address before the Hawkeye Pioneer Association of Des Moines Co. and of the History of the Congregational Church of Dubuque. The Constitutions of the Society of First Settlers of Muscatine Co. and of the Hawkeye Pioneer Associatiou of Des Moines Co. and the History of the Presbyterian Church of Muscatine, are then given.

The Cavalier Dismounted, An Essay on the origin of the founders of the Thirteen Colonies. By William H. Whitmore, member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, &c. Salem, Whipple & Smith: 1864.

We are glad to see Mr. Whitmore thus enlarging his article in the Continental. The subject is an interesting one, and the facts seem to send the boasted higher blood of the South to the winds. New England can show more families

belonging to the recognized gentry of England, that untitled class so superior to the mass of Continental nobles, than all the Southern States. Mr. Whitmore shows the homogeneity of the New England settlers, and by copious extracts from Southern Historians the mongrel character of the settlers in the Southern States.

In the question of the number of present inhabitants who are either foreign or descended from foreigners who came after 1760, we are met by great difficulties. Different returns are so discordant that after long and tedious endeavors to approximate the truth we abandoned the task. In the present paper we find on page 4, the whole body of emigrants after 1760 with their descendants put down at 6,729,663, but we are inclined to believe this far below the real number.

Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, June 1864.

This vigorous Historical repository contains an account of Houses and other buildings in Salem in 1793, by Col. Benjamin Pickman; Hale Memotanda; Gleanings from the Church records at Ipswich Hamlet; from the Burying Ground at Hamilton; Ipswich Town Records; Frost Family; Letter by Jonathan Archer; Rowley Marriages; Ship building in Salem &c.

The Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, D. T. Valentine, 12°. 856 pp

This noble annual comes this year in a most attractive form. The Historical articles are Sketches of Principal men in New York during the Colonial Era; History of the Fort in New York; Cornelius Steenwyck, with a portrait and illustrations; Caleb Heathcote, with a portrait; City of New York 1730-1736, being a series of very interesting extracts from papers of that day; Operations of the British Army in 1776, with a map copied by one published in 1777 by J. F. W. Des Barres, and an illustration of the engagement between the Phenix and Rose and the American Fire Ships and Galleys, Aug 16, 1776; Trinity Church Yard by F. R. Tillou; Belvedere Club House, with an illustration; Description of the New York House of Refuge, illustrated; Comparative Wealth of the Citizens of New York, being a list of the chief persons taxedin 1815 and 1820; a continuation of the valuable List of Baptisms in the Dutch Church; An article on the house where Tom Paine died, illustrated with diagrams; a notice of New York north of Canal Street in 1808. This valuable matter occupies nearly two hundred pages of closely printed type.

The lithographic views embrace a number of old buildings and some facsimiles; the wood cuts give a fine series of our public institutions, embracing Columbia College, the Free Acadamy, the Astor and Historical Libraries, the various

Dispensaries, several Orphan Asylums, St. Vincent's and St. Luke's Hospitals, Seventh Regiment Armory, &c.

The History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military and Naval. By E. A DUYCKINCK, illustrated by Alonzo Chappel. New York. Johnson, Fry & Co. Parts 49-52.

These numbers are illustrated with portraits of Meade and Gillmore, and the battles of Gettysburg and Chicamauga, carrying down to the close of 1862 and resume the situation of affairs at the beginning of the ensuing year. Mr. Duyckinck conducts his history with his usual ability; but as the matter grows on him condenses and gives less room to documentary evidence, which we deem wise, as no historian can give even the cream of the seven volumes of the Rebellion Record in his pages. There is a certain attraction in finding documents in full, but when they increase too rapidly we tire and look rather for a narrative embracing results.

The Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen, an American in England from 1775 to 1788 with an appendix of Biographical Sketches. By George Atkinson Ward, Boston; Little, Brown & Co. 1864, 8° 678 pp.

The Journal of an Amercian so strong in his adherence to the British government as to become a voluntary exile, covering the whole period of the war, could not fail to be an interesting and valuable record. The appearance of the work some years since drew attention to the Americans who at the revolution avowed their attachment to the existing government. The elaborate work of Mr. Sabine, which has just appeared in a new and much enlarged edition, covered the whole field, and brought to the students of Revolutionary history a vast material. Mr. Sabine acknowledges the value of Curwen's Journal, and all students will be thankful to Mr. Ward, for this new and much improved edition of a work of real value.

Indiana's Roll of Honor. By DAVID STEVENSON, Librarian of Indiana. Indianapolis, Published by the Author, 1864: 654 pages.

Indiana is here clearly a pioneer. Acreditable volume like this is surely a good commencement of Indiana's history of her part in the great war for the preservation of the Union, and the establishment of the principle that the party defeated at a fair election shall seek a reversal of the result, not by revolution but by the ballot box at the next election. The legislature in the session of 1862-3 directed the collection of matter relative to the Indiana soldiery and its preservation in the State library under the title of "Indiana's Roll of Honor."

The author from this has derived the idea of the present volume, which with its successors will for years give Indiana's sons a work worthy of their pride. To make it such he has well divided the work into campaigns, and after a brief but graphic sketch of each gives a history of Indiana regiments concerned in it. The present volume, after a chapter on the executive department and the organization of the troops and the various departments connected with the service, gives the history of the Western Virginia, first Potomac, Kanawha, Cheat Mountain campaigns; the operations of the Army of the Potomac under McClellan, Pope, Meade, Burnside; the early operations in the Shenandoah Valley, Missouri, Kentucky and concludes with the career of Grant from Belmont to Shiloh.

The Regimental history embraces the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 14th, 19th, 20th, 22d, 33d, 35th, and, the 3d, cavalry and 16th, battery.

The biographical sketches of deceased officers are numerous and like the work generally well written. It is illustrated with portraits of Gov. Morton and of Indiana's Fallen Braves, Commander Gwin, Gen. Hackleman, Colonels Hendricks, Bass, Brown, Hathaway, Majors Tanner, Abbott and Adjutant Mullen. The authentic nature of his material and the care given to the work make Mr. Stevenson's work one of complete authority, the more necessary amid the conflicting newspaper accounts of the day.

General Orders of the War Department, embracing the years 1861, 1862 and 1863, adopted especially for the use of the Army and Navy of the United States. Chronologically arranged in two volumes, with a full alphabetical Index. By Thos. M. O Brien and Oliver Diefendorf, Military Attorneys, Leavenworth, Kansas. New York, Derby & Miller No. 5 Spruce St. Vols. I, II, pp xxiv, 472, xxi, 711.

No collection on the History of the War is complete without this important work, which are rendered doubly valuable.to students by the valuable index prefixed to each volume. Some of these orders are of course of a temporary character and relate to individuals who are personally insignificant, but much has a direct bearing on the great struggle, and furnishes the key to great events.

How suggestive that only one order under the last administration bears direct reference to the war. This is the General Order No. 5 (March 1, 1861), dismissing Brig.-Gen. David E. Twiggs from the army of the United States "for his treachery to the flag of his country." It is countersigned by "S. Cooper," who forthwith imitated the treachery. The order of Mar. 20 announces 82 resignations, Cooper, Hardee, Van Dorn, McLaws, Beauregard, Gardner, A. P. Hill, and others of less note who then, when things

were seen in a kind of mist, were allowed to go forth and join the enemy.

In the mere matter of Departments this work is worth its price, for if there is one thing perplexing it is the constitution, extension, alteration, and combination of departments rendered necessary from time to time. To Staff Officers of Departments and Division Head quarters, Paymasters, Provost Marshals, and in fact all officers, these volumes must be an incalculable service. State officers will find it no less useful.

The War with the South, A History of the Great American Rebellion By Robert Tomes, M. D., Illustrated with many original Designs, Plans. Portraits, &c. New York, Virtue, Yorston & Co., Nos. 35 & 40. Portraits of Everett, Meade, and Beauregard. Maps of the Southern and Southwestern States, Vicksburg and its defences.

This History has brought us down through McClellan's campaign on the Peninsula and Pope's disastrous career to Lee's entrance into Maryland in Sept. 1862, where he was soon to be signally checked and be shattered by McClellan. It is marked with the known ability of the writer, and describes with skill the various movements of the armies, and the intricate diplomatic and political movements of the government and the revolutionary confederacy. Dr. Tomes still gives documents largely, in his notes, supporting and explaining his position.

The Complete Works of the Most Rev. John Hughes, D. D., Archbishop of New York. Comprising his Sermons, Letters, Lectures, Speeches, &c. Carefully compiled and edited from the best sources by Laurence Kehoe. New York: American News Co., 1864. Vol. I, 8°, 674 pp.

This is a collection of the works of the late Archbishop of New York, who in his day and time filled no small share of public attention and was the first of the Catholic bishops of the Country who ever came prominently before the public. He was the representative man of his Church, a man of superior ability, a keen appreciator of the American people and public opinion, eloquent, ready, and fearless. His writings are almost entirely of the desultory character consequent on his position, and they are scattered through newspapers, or in pamphlets, To give students of American history these in a compact form is a service which we are glad to see done as well as Mr. Kehoe has here succeeded, His debate on the School Question, more frequently alluded to than read, is here given infull, with his various addresses and speeches on the same subject. His letters to Mayor Harper and Col. Stone, in 1844, his controversy with Kirwan, together with several Sermons and Lectures, are also in this volume, which is, as our readers perceive, of good size and is well printed and got up.

National Portrait Gallery of Eminenent Americans from orginal Paintings by Alonzo Chappel, with biography by E. A. Duyckinck. Nos. 55-60. Johnson, Fry & Co.

This new American Portrait Gallery is now completed, and is a creditable monument to the patriotic zeal of the publishers, who could carry it through in the face of such a war as now desolates the land.

The Gallery embraces one hundred and nineteen portraits, embracing all the Presidents, the heroes of the Revolutionary era, the patriot leaders, the great generals: then the men of the next age, circling around the War of 1812 and embracing its gallant men, Perry, McDonough, Brown, Porter, Lawrence, with men of science like Fulton, sages like Story, artists like Allston, writers like Irving, Everett, Bancroft, Bryant. The great Politicians, Clay, Webster, Calhoun, with Choate, Benton, Chittenden, come next. Kent, Wilkes, and Fremont are our explorers; Scott, Worth, Quitman, and Wool, give us the War with Mexico; and Grant, McClellan, Foote, Farragut and others our modern group of heroes.

The biographies are beautiful pictures of the life and character of these representative men. It is no easy task to give in so short a space an outline so graceful and yet so full of detail; but Mr. Duyckinck has surpassed himself in this task.

Miscellany.

SALE OF THE LIBRARY of the REV. J. D. SHANE, AT CINCINNATI,. SEPTEMBER 27-29.-This sale excited considerable interest and drew many buyers. The Cincinnati Gazette of Oct 6 says, in substance, of the collector and the sale :

His

Mr. Shane was a clergyman of the Presbyterian Church, and a bachelor of eccentric habits. zeal for the acquisition of books, pamphlets, and newspapers was intense. Nothing was too trifling for his notice. He seemed to have no specialty, or more strictly, everything was a specialty with him. If he exhibited a preference for anything, it was for books relating to early American, particularly Western history, and volumes and more ephemeral publications throwing light upon the rise and progress of the different religious denominations. Though settled over no church, he frequently preached for country congregations, and seldom returned without a bundle or box of books or pamphlets bought or begged from his rural friends, slept in a room in the fifth story of a store in Cincinnati, surrounded by boxes of his treasures, and other packages were placed in warehouses in various parts of this city. As may be inferred, his discrimination and taste in selection were not

He