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President Harrison left one son and three daughters, all living at or near
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North Bend, Ohio ; four sous and a daughter died before the father; in per- sun, he was tall and slender. you few men at his age enjoyed so much bodily vigor and strength; thus passed to the grave, a good, a just, and worthy patriot, whose life was full of usend lessons to his followers, for noble and disinterested services in the cause of his country and for the social virtues of private life.
JOHN TYLER, TENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. WITH A PORTRAIT.
President John Tyler arrived in Boston June 16, 1-13, by invitation of the city authorities to unite in the celebration of the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, bought Jane 17, 1775; and the completion of the monument erected to perpetuate that important event ; the President was met at the Baston and Roxbury fine by the Mayor and members of the cay govern- ment; a regiment of Boston Light Inantry, under Col. G. T. Bigelow, and the splendid company of Lancers under Col. Smith ; quite a large number of private carriages, with a lengthy cavalcade of mounted citizens ; the Press- dont crossed the ime at hak past 10 o'clock, A.M. just at that time the sky which had became cloudy became darker ; a north east storm set in and ram f.Il continually tift 2 o'clock. The President was in a harouche drawn by six handsome horses accompanied by the Mayor and Mr. Robert Tyler, large numbers of people were at the open windows ; on balconies and in the streets in despite of the storm ; having passed through several streets, the procession arrived at the Tremont House, where he was received by the Independent Cadet Company-the Governor's body guard, under Col. Winchester, who had been cettered to place the company at the disposal of the President during his stay in this Commonwealth :- the President daned that day with the city authorities at the Fremont House, -the foreign consuls in full moon paid their respects to the President in the afternoon, When Mr. Grattan addresseal him in a happy stram in their beledi; the President thanked them for their attention in a police reply ;- in the evening he visited the house of the Post- master and there idet With a large number of mieuds; anter that he attended the theatre with his stil.
The next day being the cek butted 17th of June, the President accompani- ed by the President of the Bunker Hill monument association, with Mr. John Tyler, Jr. an ar Koben 'Tyler. Mas sans, cidered the Inouche prepared for the occasion and the other digitimes and invited guests followed as in the orders of the day ;- 20 full lands of naise sont lost their grand and me lo- thous sounds ti this great processione, which occupied a whole hour in pes ing any given point -6, samt 12 de que -Hon. Daniel Webster delivered the address on the ocean, replen with beauty of thought expressal with cheese language, wollen lectionate allusion to the surviving veterans of the revolution, and a bold illustration of the glorious prospects licht but for
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JOHN TYLER, Bom .40 29 1181 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. IM41.
John Tyler
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the future happiness and prosperity of the people of this country; from an to 50 thousand persons were present, and all were gratified ;- the President and suit were at the house J. M. Paige, Esq. in Summer Street in the evening ;- on Sunday morning he anten.led the serviers at Trinity Church ; in the afternoon he visited Mont Auburn, and in the evening attended the concert of the Handel and Hayda society :- on Monday morning he visited Lowell and returned and visited the navy yard, and spent the evening at the Hon. David Henshaw's; he was to have lent here on Tuesday, June 20th, for Springfield, on his return to Washington; but the sublen death of the Hon. Hugh S. Legare, Secretary of State, who was of the President's shit, detained him one day to pay the last tribute of respect to the remains of one, so highly valued and honored while living; on Wednesday he let the State.
Thr ancestors of President Tyler were among the early English settlers of Virginia, and trace their lineage to Walter or Want Tyler, who headded an insurrection in England, and while demanding of the King (Richard II) a recognition of the rights of the people, lost his life in the cause ; the father of our President was the second son of Jolm Tyler who was Marshad of the colony under the Royal government to the period of his decrease in 1700. His son entered early in the list for the defence of colonial rights and liberties and so freely did he utter his sentiments, that the Marshal, his father, ofien told him he would be ling as a rebel. Krmoving from James city in 1775 to Charles city, he was soon elected a member of the House of Delegates of Virginia, and with zeal advocated the boblest measures of the revolutionary era ; he became an intimate friend of Jener :on, Patrick Henry, and Edmond Randolph and was beloved by the people of Virginia ; throughout the Revo- lution the father of our President devoted himself unceasingly to the cause of the people ; a bold, free and elegant spraker, he nobly and successfully do- fended their rights on all suitable occasions and possessing an ample fortune by inheritance and by lus industry, he profusely lavished n in the sucred cause of freedom, and at the glorious period of its accomplishment he had expended the whole and was pennyless; he was often elevated to the speaker's chair in the house of delegates; Governor of Virginia and a Judge im one of her higher courts; in 1-12 he was judge of the federal court of Admiralty under President Madison ;- he died in l'eb. 1-13, full of years and honors.
Judge Tyler It three sons, Wat, John and William, the second son was our President ; I was born in Charles cuy county, Virginia. March 29th, 1790; he was standing in youth and entered William and Mary college at twelve years of age, and passed through his collegiate comes with honor himself and the approbation of the venerated head (Beløp Mashed) of that institution ; anter seloch he stated low, perly with his father and partly with Edmund Randolph ;- at nomtren joins of age he puntived at the Lar; bis age not having been examined ito, and in three months une, there were but few disputed cases but young Tyler was on one side of the other ;- in a S
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year inore he was offered a nomination to the Legislature, but which he de- clined till the next year 1811, when he was free, and then was chosen nearly unanimously a member of the house of Delegates :- Mr. Tyler defended the democratic principles of Jefferson and Madison, and his voice was often heard in defence of the war and measures of government, and as often lis- tened to by the veteran, bold and graceful orators of Virginia with universal and gratifying attention.
When the British forces were in the Chesapeake Bay, Mr. Tyler raised a company for the defence of Norfolk and Richmond, but as they were never called upon for actual service, his military career gave cause for his being styled as " Captain Tyler: "-while he was yet a member of the Legislature, he was elected one of the executive council which he continued to be till 1816; when a contest between him and Andrew Stevenson for Representa- tive to Congress, it resulted in the choice of Mr. Tyler, by about 30 votes :- he retired from that station in 1821 and warmly advocated the election of Mr. Stevenson as his successor.
He returned to his farm in Charles City County and to the practice of law; -in 1823 he was again elected to the house of Delegates, and re-elected the next year :- in 1525 he was chosen Governor of Virginia by a large majority und the following year he received the unanimous vote of the Legislature for the same office; and before the expiration of that term was chosen as Sen- utor to Congress in opposition to John Randolph by 5 votes :- in the latter part of the session of 1535 he was elected speaker pro tem of the Senate by whigs and State rights senators : he resigned his seat in the Senate in Feb. 1936, by being compelled by instructions from the Legislature of Virginia to espouse the resolution of March 28, 1834, for expunging from the record of the Senate :- to vote for any record to be expunged was so opposite to his regards for that journal, he chose to relinquish three years of his term rather than be guilty of tergiversation in his public course as a Senator : he was nominated as Vice President in 1835, on a ticket in Maryland with Gen. Har- rison as President :- in 1538 he was elected by the whigs as member of the Virginia legislature :- in 1539 he was a delegate to the convention of Harris- burg for nominating n President and Vice President and became himself a candidate for the Vice Presidency, was elected to that office : President Win. Henry Harrison dying on the Ith of April, 1811, Mr. Tyler became President of these United States.
In person Me. Tyler is tall and spare ; with a fair complexion ; blue eyes; and prominent features : in manners plain and affable and in the social circle amiable, courteons und hospitable :- in 1213, at the age of 23 he married Miss Letitia Christian of New Kent county, Virginia : she died ut Washing. ton, Sept. 10, 1812, leaving 3 sons and 3 daughters :- on the 26th of June, 1841 he married Miss Julia Gardner of New York, daughter of David Gard- ner, Esq. who was killed in the explosion on board the steambout Prince- town, in Feb. 18H, and since his term for the Presidency expired, he has resided at lus seat, near Williamsburg, Virginia.
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JAMES K.POLK. Born No: 2,1795, In Mar. 4. 18.15.
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JAMES K. POLK, ELEVENTH PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES. WITH A PORTRAIT.
June 29, 1847. The President entered the city this day at a little after 1 o'clock over the Milldam avenue, escorted from Brookline by the Boston splendid and full corps of cavalry Lancers : at the west end of Beacon St. hic was introduced to Mayor Josiah Quincy, Jr. by Alderman Parker ; the Pres- ident was handsomely welcomed in a speech from the Mayor and after an animated reply from our honorable guest they both took seats in a superb light barouche, drawn by six magnificent black horses; the citizens giving him three times three cheers, in a very friendly manner : a rain storia com- meneed between 11 and 12 o'clock which continued during the day: yet not- withstanding this, the people had early assembled to greet the nation's President and they were inmoveable until he arrived in the city: the will- dows of the dwellings were mostly up and filled with the ladies of the man- sions along his path ; the appearance of the President was decidedly pre- possessing and highly agreeable to New England notions of a great and good mind : with gentleness of manners truly republican, unosterdatious, and un- assuming, he received golden opinions among the people : the escort for re- ceiving the President in the city was one of the most gorgeous and extensive sights : all of the Independent Infantry companies of the city with the Lan- cers : civic and military officers of the United States in this section : officers of the State and of the city, a lengthy cavalcade of mounted citizens : societies of various titles, with a long train of truckmen momned, all turned out in the storm to tender their respects to the city's guest : the procession was nearly an hour in passing any given point, and that would give about three miles length for it; the people in this section require some very important excitement to hnzza at the top of their lungs on any occasion ; but the cheers to the honorable visitor were as frequent and as loud and long, as betokened a hearty welcome and probably to suit the taste of the recipient ;- The Hon. James Buchanan was in the third carriage from the President and was joy- ously greeted by the people :- salvos of artillery were let off from the com- mon and from various places in the harbor : flags were waving in alnost every direction, and had it not have rained continually, it would have been quite a splendid gala-day ; the lines of school children in front of our excel. lent fire department on the common, through which the President and his es- cort passed, must have afforded him pleasure, for it was a beautiful sight; the procession passed through Pleasant to Washington St. thence through State to Commercial, South Market, Merchants' Row. Aun, Blackstone, Hanover and Court Street to splendid apartments prepared for him at the Revere honse on Bowdoin Square :-- at half past 6 o'clock the conunittee of arrange- ments and officers of goverment partook of a public dinner with the Presi- deut at the Revere House :- the next Morning (Wednesday) the President visited Fanenil Hall, Quincy Market, nud at ten o'clock he entered the city of Charlestown where every token of respect was tendered from Bunker'. height : from the citizens and from the hospitable mansion of mayor Warren :
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the President continued his journey to various towns on the seaboard and was the first President of the United States that visited the State of Maine Since it set up for itself in 1-20 ; his visit extended to Augusta, the capital of the State, situated on the river Kennebec : the Legislature being then m session they received him with high honors, and with the grateful satisfaction of the people ; on Monday the honorable visitant returned through the city of Boston with a rapid hastening for the city of Washington, to attend to im- portant national concerns of which he had just been apprized, by an express courier : and took the line of cars through Taunton to reach Washington on Wednesday, July 7th ; during the whole time of the President's visit while in the city, the Independent company of Cadets, (the Massachusetts Gover- hor's body guard,) were detailed as a body guard to the illustrious guest. On Monday the President passed through five States during that day, viz. Maine, N. Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
James K. Polk is the eldest of ten children : he was born Nov. 2, 1795, in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina : his ancestors whose original name was Polloch and by obvions transition assumed the present forin were from Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century : the family, traces their descent from Robert Polk, who was married in Ireland : his wife Magdalen Tueker was the heiress of Mowning Hill : they had six sous and two daughters, Robert Polk the progenitor of Jamnes K. Polk, was the fifth son : he married a Miss Gullet and removed to America,
The Polk family settled in Somerset county on the eastern shore of Mary- land, where some of their descendants still sojourn : being there the only democrats of note they were styled the democratic family ; the branch of the family from which the President descended, removed to the neighborhood of Carlisle in Pennsylvania, and thence to the western frontier of North Cur- olina some time before the revolutionary war : some of the family were hon- orably distinguished in that eventful struggle : on the 20th of May, 1775, being more than a year previons to the National Declaration of Independence, the assembled inhabitants of Mecklenburg county publickly absolved themselves from their allegiance to the British Crown and issued a formal manifesto of Independence in terms of manly eloquence ; Colonel Thomas Polk, the primo mover in this act of noble dining, and one of the signers of that Declaration of Independence was grent mele to the President.
The father of James K. Polk wasn farmer of unassuming pretensions, but an enterprising charneter : thrown eurly upon his own resources, he became the architect of his own forumes : in leto be removed to Tennessee with his ten children where he was the of the pioneers of the fertile valley of Duck river, a branch of the Cmnherland, then a wilderness Lut now the most pop- ulous part of the State: here he resided until his election to the Presidency in 1945 : in the infancy of the settlement there were not many advantages for a good edneation and he acquired that only of a good English scholar : his father wished him to become a merchant and much against the son's in- clination he was placed in a counting house : he remained there but a few
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weeks and after earnest appeals to his father he was placed under the care of Rev. Dr. Henderson and subsequently under the care of Mr. Samuel P. Black celebrated as a classical teacher : in 1815 he entered the University of North Carolina : there his career was distinguished ; at each semi-annual examination he bore away the first honor and graduated in 1518 with the highest distinction in his class and with the reputation of being the first scholar in both the mathematics and classics; his ambition to excel was only equalled by his perseverance ; in proof of which it is said that he never missed a recitation or the performance of any duty; from the University he returned to Tennessee, his health impaired by application ; in 1919 he com- menced the study of the law in the office of Felix Grundy, who for many years was Representative and Senator from Tennessee to Congress, and was admitted to the bar in 1520 : he commenced practice in Maury county ; his thorough academic education, accurate knowledge of law; his readiness and resources in debate and his unwearied application to business, secured him at once full employment ; in 1823 he entered upon the stormy career of pol- itics, being chosen Representative to his State legislature, and the next year he was re-elected; he was the early political friend of Gen. Jackson, and one of those who in the session of 1823 and 4, called that distinguished man from his retirement and elected him to the Senate of the United States.
In August 1825, being then in his thirtieth year, Mr. Polk was chosen member of the House of Representatives in Congress; he opposed internal State improvements at the national expense ; he opposed the administration of President John Q. Adams from first to last; he supported the administru- tion of President Andrew Jackson, against the National Bank, and advocated a reduction of the revenue to the necessities of government ; his first speech was for altering the constitution to prevent a choice of President ever devoly- ing on Congress ; in 1831 he was re-elected to Congress, and in 1833 defended the removal of the publie money from the banks ; in 1835 Mr. Polk was elected speaker of the House of Representatives in Congress, and at the extra session of 1837 was re-chosen speaker.
After a service of fourteen years in Congress Mr. Polk declined a re-elec- tion in 1839 ;- he was then elected Governor of Tennessee, and nominated by the convention at Baltimore May 29, 1844 for the Presidency and succeeded to that office March 4, 1815.
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. In person Mr. Polk is of a middle stature, with a full angular brow, and a quick penetrating eye ; the expression of his countenance is generally grave, but is often relieved by a peculiarly pleasant smile, indicative of the amenity of his disposition ; the amiable character of his private life, which has been upright and pure, secures to him the esteem and friendship of all who have the advantage of his acquaintance ; he married a lady of Tennessee, who is a member of the Presbyterian church, and well qualified by her virtues and ¡accomplishments to adorn the circles of private life or the elevated station to which they have been called; they have no children.
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RAILROAD CORPORATIONS.
CAPE COD BRANCH RAILROAD, Office No. 26 Merchants' Exchange.
CHESHIRE RAILROAD.
From Fitchburg, through Keene, to Connecticut River. Office, 56 State St.
CONCORD RAILROAD, N. H. From Lowell. Office, 7 Merchants' Exchange, Boston.
CONNECTICUT AND PASSUMPSIC RIVERS RAILROAD.
From Lebanon, N. II., to the Canada line. Office, No. 7, Merchants' Ex- change, Boston.
CONNECTICUT RIVER RAILROAD. From Greenfield to Springfield. 36 iniles. Office 7 Merchants Ex.
EASTERN RAILROAD. Lower Route Office, 85 State street. Depot at East Boston Ferry.
FITCHBURG RAILROAD.
Depot, Charlestown. Office, 15 Mer- chants' Exchange, State St., Boston.
LOWELL RAILROAD.
Depot, Lowell Street. Treasurer's Office, 11 1-2 Tremont Row.
MAINE RAILROAD.
Upper Route. Depot, Hay Market Square. Office, CO State Street.
MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD. Office, 92 State Street. George B. U'iton, Treasurer.
NORWICH & WORCESTER R. R. Transfer Office, 13 Brazers' Building, State Street.
NORTHERN RAILROAD. From Concord, N. H., to Lebanon, N. II. Office, 14 Merchants' Ex.
OI.D COLONY RAILROAD. Depot, Kneeland, corner South street. Office, 14 Merchants' Exchange.
PROVIDENCE RAILROAD. Office, Pleasant, corner Eliot Street.
SULLIVAN RAILROAD, N. II. Office, - Henry Hubbard, President. N. D. Hubbard, Agent.
TAUNTON BRANCH RAILROAD. Treasurer's Office, over the Suffolk Bank, Boston.
VERMONT AND MASS. RAILROAD. From Fitchburg to Brattleboro'. Office, 11 Merchants' Exchange.
VERMONT CENTRAL RAILROAD. Office, Barristers' Hall, Court Sq.
WESTERN RAILROAD. Office, Barristers' Hall, Court square.
WORCESTER RAILROAD. Depot and Office, corner of Lincoln and Beach Streets.
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RAIL ROADS. TABLE OF DISTANCES AND FARES FROM BOSTON.
LOWELL AND CONN. R. R.
MILES. PRICES.
Medford
5
8 0 12
S. Woburn,
9
20
Woburn,
10
25
Wilmington,
15
35
Bil. and Tewkesb.
19
45
Billerica Mills,
2.2
55
Somerville,
$0 8
Malden,
5
12
Middlesex,
23
70
N. Malden,
7
19
N. Chehusford,
30
75
S. Reading,
10
25
'Tyngsboro'
34
80
Little's
37
90
Wilmington,
16
40
Nashua,
40
1 00
Ballardvale,
21
55
Thomion's
46
. 10
Andover,
23
60
Reed's Ferry,
50
. 20
N. Andover,
26
70
Goff's Falls,
54
1 30
Bradford.
31
85
Manchester,
58
. 40
Haverhill,
32
85
Hooks":11,
67
1 60
Plaistow,
37
1 00
Concord,
73
1 75
Newtown,
40
1 05
W. Concord,
78
1 85
E. Kingston,
41
1 20
Exeter,
49
1 30
S. Newmarket,
53
1 40
Newmarket,
5G
1 50
Durham,
61
1 60
Madbury,
63
1 70
Dover,
66
1 75
Somersworth,
69
. 75
Great Falls,
1 75
Portland,
110
3 00
U'sual time from Boston to Portland, 5 1-4 hours.
EASTERN RAILROAD.
MILES.
PRICES.
Lynn,
9
$ 0 25
Salem,
14
40)
Beverly,
16
45
Wenham,
20
56
Ipswich,
25
70
Rowley,
29
č0
W. Cambridge,
6
15
Newburyport,
34
1 00
Walthanı,
10
25
Salisbury,
36
1 05
Lexington,
11
25
Seabrook,
40
1 16
Hampton Falls,
4:2
1 25
Lincoln,
17
40
Hampton,
4.1
32
Concord,
20
50
N. Ilampton,
47
1 40
S. Acton,
25
65
Greenland,
49
1 43
WV. Acton,
27
65
Portsmouth,
54
1 50
Littleton,
32
S. Berwick.
66
1 75
Groton,
37
90
N Berwick,
70
1 95
Shirley,
40
1 00
Wells,
77
2 25
Lauenburg,
433
1 10
Kennebunk,
. 82
2 40
Leominster,
46
1 15
Saco,
2 75
Fitchburg,
50
1 25
Scarboro'
100
3 00
Usual time from Roston to Fitch-
Portland,
105
FITCHBURG RAILROAD.
MILES. PRICES.
Somerville,
2
$ 0 12
Porter's
3
12
Fisherville,
1 95
Boscawen,
2 05
N. Boscawen,
88
2 15
Franklin,
93
2 25
A Branch Railroad extends from Woburn Centre, a distance of 2 miles. Usual time from Boston to Con- cord, 3 1-2 hours.
Salem to Marblehead, 4 miles, 6 1-4 cents.
U'snal time from Boston to Portland, 5 1-4 hours.
MAINE EXTENS. RAILROAD.
MILES.
PRICES.
Lowell,
28
65
Reading,
30
3 00 . burg: 2 1-2 hours
13 30
Weston,
410
BOSTON NOTIONS.
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NOR. AND LONG ISLAND R. R.
MILES.
PRICES.
Worcester,
44
$ 25
Oxford,
55
1 50
Webster,
60
1 60
Fisherville,
64
1 80
Pomfret,
70
1 95
Chester Factory,
126
Daysville,
75
2 00
Danielsonville,
78
2 10
Central Village,
=1
22 25
Plainfield,
87
35
Jewett City,
93
2 50
Pittsfield,
151
4 19
Norwich,
103
2 75
Allyn's Point,
110
New London,
118
Greenport,
110
Canaan,
167
Southold,
144
Mattetuck,
152
Riverhead,
161.
St. George Manor,
165
Medford Station,
1~0
Suffolk Station,
191
Deer Park,
198
Farmingdale.
204
Hicksville,
209
Carl Place,
215
Hempstead Br.
217
Brushville,
2:21
Jamaica,
221
Union Course,
227 1-2
Eust New York,
230
Bedford,
232 1-2
Brooklyn,
235
New York City,
236
5 00
WOR. AND WESTERN R. R.
MILES.
PRICES.
Brighton,
5
$ 0 17
Angier's Corner,
7
20)
Newton,
9
Needham,
13
35
Natick,
17
45
Framingham,
5.5
Richmond,
75
Hopkinton,
65
Charlton,
Westerly.
Stonington,
90
2 75
Grafton,
1 05
Worcester,
11
1 25
N. BED. AND FALL R. R. R.
MILES. PRICES.
Mansfield,
21
S
Norton,
70
South Brookfield,
67
Taunton,
36
25
West Brookfield,
69
Myrick's,
4.2
1 00
Warren,
7:3
Fall River.
1 43
Pahner,
North Wilbraham,
$9
92 Wilbraham, Springfield, 93
2 75
W. Springfield, 100
Westfield,
105
Russell,
116
Chester Village,
119
North Becket,
133
Hinsdale,
143
Dalton,
110
Shaker Village,
150
Richmond,
159
State Line,
162
East Chatham,
172
Chatham,
177
Kinderhook,
1-1
Schodach,
192
Greenbush &
}
200
5 00
PROV. AND STONING. R. R.
MILES. PRICEY.
Roxbury,
$ 0 10
Jamaica, Plain,
4
10
Toll Gate,
5
1:2
Dedham Low Plain,
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