ports, and several historical sermons, History of the Morison or Morrison Family; 470 pp.; published in 1880; 1,100 copies. Condensed History of Windham, N. H., for the History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties; published 1882. History of Windham, N. H., from 1719 to 1883; 872 pp.; 750 copies; published 1883. History of the Harris Family, 16361883; 141 pp.; published 1883; by William S. Harris. This town has sent forth its full complement of men equipped with a thorough education for the conflict of life. This list embraces the most of its COLLEGE STUDENTS AND GRADUATES. Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.- James Dinsmoor, grad. 1813. years. Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Cadford M. Dinsmoor, grad. 1851. These persons, not college graduates, attained honorable rank, and success in their professions: Judge Silas Morris Cochran was an associate justice of the court of ap Orren Moore entered 1854-there peals of Maryland. one year. Rufus A. Morrison, grad. 1859. Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.- Charles Abbott was judge of one of the local courts of Nevada. John Nesmith, judge of the police court, Dover, N. H. Silas Milton Moore, principal of academy at Chester, N. H. Dr. Isaac Thorn, a prominent physician in Windham and Derry. Dr. Benjamin F. Simpson, a successful practitioner in Windham and Lowell, Mass. Dr. Daniel L. Simpson, late of West Rumney, N. H. Dr. John Reid Crowell, late of Brooklyn, Mich. WINDHAM IN THE REBELLION. The long contest between the North and the South in relation to the question of slavery was nearing its end. The moral sense of the nation was awakened to the fearful wickedness of the system of human slavery, and the people were determined that "Freedom should be national," "Slavery should be sectional," and that the peculiar institution should be confined to the limits it then occupied. To this its supporters were opposed, and demanded ample protection to their property in slaves in all the states and territories of the Union. There was an "irrepressible conflict" between the adherents and supporters of slavery and those arrayed against it. The conflict was destined to be waged till decided, not in the arena of debate, not in the halls of legislation, but upon the field of battle, where hostile armies met and struggled for the mastery. Abraham Lincoln having been elected President in 1860, this was made a pretext by the states of the South for an attempt to withdraw from the Union. The Rebellion commenced by an attack upon Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861. The roar of the rebel cannon awoke the slumbering millions of Northern freemen, who rallied by tens of thousands in defence of the government. The soldiers of this town in the 1st Regiment were Walter J. Burnham, Asa Bean,* Seth N. Huntley,* William Wyman, Moses Wyman.* In other regiments they were, Josiah S. Everett, John Dunn, John McGowan, Jesse C. Crowell,* Russell W. Powell, Wentworth S. Cowan, * Reënlisted. James Brown, George W. Durant, Joseph G. Ayers, Gilman Jaquith, Charles E. Fegan, James Jones, Leven Duplessis, Ephraim Plimpton, James Baker, Timothy Norris, Henry S. Hancock, George W. Carr, Whitney R. Richardson, Harvey Hancock. The war was over at last. The town was deeply in debt. Under this it labored for several years, but it has been extinguished, and there is money in the town's treasury. Upon the farming communities of the state the war bore with peculiar severity. Such was the case with this town. The armies of the Union were necessarily filled with young men, and of these there was no surplus here. The larger part of our young men had left the old homes, and gone to the cities and larger towns, and when the war broke out they rallied, and helped to swell the ranks of companies and regiments of other states. But the history of our soldiers is an honorable one. Some sleep in the "sunny South," smitten by rebel bullets or wasting sickness, or starved to death in rebel prisons; some returned to their homes to linger for years with disease upon them, and to-day fill soldiers' graves. Some still move among us, performing well their duties in life. Men die; examples and principles live. The soldiers of Windham in every war save the last have long since passed away; yet the examples of their patriotism, courage, and devotion to principles will never die. The courage of the fathers in the French and Indian war, in the war of the Revolution, flamed forth anew in the war for the nation's preservation from 1861 to 1865. All honor to themto all of the nation's defenders! Their deeds will be recounted by those of future generations who will acknowledge the debt of gratitude they owe them. "In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, so they died to make men free." GOOD-BYE. By C. C. LORD. We linger at the closing scene, The hands are clasped that soon must part, And cruel fate divides between Each heart that craves each other heart, And tear-drops roll and voices sigh When lips are forced to say Good-bye. So gently spoken; how the tide Of kindness fills the soul of pain Forecast with grief that ne'er forgets Quick faith, that owns a subtle spring O prophecy divine, that breaks Out of the gloom of life distressed, True counsel of reunion blest, LOVE AND THEOLOGY. A Novel. By CELIA PARKER WOOLLEY. 1 vol. 12mo; $1.50. It is not only entertaining, but in teresting from the highest point of view. It goes on from chapter to chapter with ever-increasing force and power. No book of fiction that Ticknor & Co. have published has had, to my thinking, the attraction and value of this; and nowhere has the present study and questioning of theological subjects been more clearly and satisfactorily presented; for, in all this presentation, there is not a hint of irreverance or flippancy of any kind. There is, instead, a very beautiful presentation of the very best interpretation of the liberal thoughts of to-day, an interpretation that contains the highest spirituality. Here in is the book of great value; and that it will be reckoned amongst the books that will be of service to all intelligent inquirers, I have no doubt. It is, I should say most decidedly, a book to own, and not merely to read for amusement only, and then to throw aside; and this for the characterization, as well as the presentation of the newer interpretations of the Bible, etc. This characterization is exceedingly well done, showing no effort, but a natural gift of character painting. The dialogue is something more than mere made-up talk, and the reflective portion contains philosophy of the most cultivated kind, and this, of course, includes the fact that this philosophy is free from narrow and vulgar self-assertion. THE GRANITE MONTHLY. A NEW HAMPSHIRE MAGAZINE. Devoted to Literature, Biography, History, and State Progress. VOL. X. SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1887. Nos. 9 & 10. HON. AMOS J. BLAKE. Amos J. Blake was born in Rindge, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, October 20, 1836, where his parents, Ebenezer Blake and Hepsibeth Jewett, were also born, and resided until the dates of their deaths. He was their eighth child and seventh son. His grandfather, Deacon Eleazer Blake, the immediate ancestor of the Blake family of Rindge, was born in Wrentham, Mass., April 1, 1757. In 1775, after the battle of Lexington, he enlisted in the Revolutionary war, and marched with a company from his native town, under command of Capt. Crowell, and arrived at Roxbury on the morning of April 20, and continued in the patriot army during the entire war. He participated in the siege of Boston, and on the day of the battle of Bunker Hill he, with others, was engaged in fortifying Prospect hill, where he witnessed the bloody engagement of June 17. His regiment was sent to New York, and joined the army under Gen. Gates, where he participated in the triumphs of the patriots over Gen. Burgoyne, and bore an honorable part in the memorable battles of Stillwater and Saratoga. The following winter he endured the exposure and nakedness of Valley Forge. The following spring and summer he was with the army immediately under the command of Gen. Washington. In 1780, then in Col. Shepard's regiment, he was appointed sergeant, and in 1782 was detailed assistant quartermaster of the Fourth Massachusetts Brigade, in which line of service he continued until his discharge, June 12, 1783, at Camp New Windsor," New York, from whence he travelled on foot a distance of 220 miles to his home in Wrentham, where he arrived June 21, after a continuous service in the Revolutionary war of more than eight years. In the autumn following his discharge, accompanied by his brother Ebenezer, who had also served four years in the army, he visited Coös county, New Hampshire, where he |