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...e. These papers contain altogether thirty—one manu- script pages, and one newspaper in extenso, and yet I do not find it anywhere charged in them tha... ... letter to Governor Seymour of October 21, which has been published in the news- papers of that State. It has not been announced or decided in any fo... ... D. C., November 1, 1863. HON. W . H. SEW ARD, Auburn, N.Y .: No important news. Details of Hooker’s night fight do great credit to his command, and ... ...and Duffle got considerable advantage of the enemy at and about Lewisburg, Virginia: and on Saturday, the seventh, Meade drove the enemy from Rappahan... ...to me as directed a day or two ago, also send Edwin C. Claybrook, of Ninth Virginia rebel cavalry. A. LINCOLN. 54 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ... ...atriot, I should be glad for him to be with his old acquaintances south of Virginia, but I am unable to suggest anything definite upon the subject. A.... ...N, February 19, 1864. COMMANDER GEORGE S. BLAKE, Commandant Naval Academy, Newport, R. I.: I desire the case of Midshipman C. Lyon re-examined and if ... ...Secretary of the Treasury, do hereby declare and proclaim that the port of Newport, in the State of V ermont, is and shall be entitled to all the priv... ...Washing- ton, and at New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Newport (Ky.), and St. Louis, and New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola, Hilt...

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... their mucilage, clip- pings of verses by T. Cholmondeley Frink and of the news- paper editorials from which Babbitt got his opinions and his polysyll... ...tt had seen the paper before her husband just sixty- seven times. “Lots of news. Terrible big tornado in the South. Hard luck, all right. But this, sa... ...dvocate-Times. But Babbitt could not abide it. He grunted. He wrinkled the newspaper. He protested: “Can you beat it! I’m willing to hand a lot of cre... ...our vertebrae. Well, my guest to-day is from such a place, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in the beautiful Southland, with 226 Babbitt memories of good ol... ...id I was going to be one of the rich myself, and buy paintings and live at Newport. I’m sure you inspired us all.” “Well.... Well.... I’ve always aime... ...ntity. He recalled their high lights the sum- 302 Babbitt mer vacation in Virginia meadows under the blue wall of the mountains; their motor tour thr...

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...ooks on mechanics, being ever so courteous to old men who were hunting for newspapers—the light of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinn... ... interest in her—the treasurer of a fur-manufac- turing firm, a teacher, a newspaper reporter, and a petty railroad official. None of them made her mo... ...rown from a sketched-in stranger to a friend, whose gossip was im- portant news. She noticed the healthy solidity of his chest. His nose, which had se... ... coaxing to all persons over forty-five, Carol got them into a waltz and a Virginia Reel. But when she left them to disenjoy themselves in their own w... ...prettiness of Maud Dyer, and Vida was noisily in- terested in getting up a Virginia Reel. Without seeming 261 Sinclair Lewis to watch Kennicott, she ... ...s a traveling salesman who sang tenor and fancied himself in imitations of Newport clothes and spoke of “the swellest business proposition that ever c... ...tan Apollo nameless and evasive—building a house in the Berk- shires or in Virginia; exuberantly buying a chair with his first check; reading poetry t...

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... was already famous and her laurels were yet unharvested. For a moment the news roused Glennard to a jealous sense of lost opportunities. He wanted, a... ...ed; adding, after a meditative pause, “As you didn’t come I talked to Aunt Virginia instead.” “Ah!” he returned, the fact being hardly striking enough... ...e increased absence of stress that marked her graver communications, “Aunt Virginia wants me to go abroad with her.” Glennard looked up with a start. ... ... were so rare that they might have been said to italicize her words. “Aunt Virginia talked to me very seriously. It will be a great relief to mother a... ...e rows of figures pushing forward into notice like so many bearers of good news. Glennard’s investments were flowering like his garden: the dryest sha... ...e of the woman whose life is enclosed in a magic circle of prosperity—”Any news?” “No—none—” he said, roused to a sense of immediate peril. The papers... ...last words he meant to ut- ter!—”Look here, old man, before you go down to Newport you must come out and spend a few days with us—mustn’t he, Alexa?” ...

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... this visit was, that on his return to the United States, he established a newspaper. This proceeding was sorely against the wishes and the advice of ... ...rer. The Garrison party, to which he still adhered, did not want a colored newspaper—there was an odor of caste about it; the Liberty party could hard... ...e Freedom’s Journal, in New Y ork City; probably not less than one hundred news- paper enterprises have been started in the United States, by free col... ...pted to promote the comforts and conveniences of its inmates. A few rough, Virginia fence-rails, flung loosely over the rafters above, an- swered the ... ...old and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, From Virginia hills and waters— Woe is me, my stolen daughters! The ... ...ible. They are mere hucksters of the surplus slave produce of Maryland and Virginia coarse, cruel, and swaggering bullies, whose very breathing is of ... ...ad not a cent of money, and lacked two dollars toward paying our fare from Newport, and our baggage not very costly—was taken by the stage driver, and...

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...es; a steed That carries double when there’s need: October store, and best Virginia, Tithe-pig, and mortuary guinea: Gazettes sent gratis down, and fr... ... fill; And fast on Fridays—if he will; Toast Church and Queen, explain the news, Talk with churchwardens about pews, Pray heartily for some new gift, ... ... the sounds are sent, And spread o’er all the fluid element. There various news I heard of love and strife, Of peace and war, health, sickness, death,... ..., on every tongue it grew. Thus flying east and west, and north and south, News travell’d with increase from mouth to mouth. So from a spark, that kin... ...97 ‘Butchers, Henley:’ Orator Henley used to declaim to the butch- ers in Newport market. 98 ‘Freemasons, Moore:’ he was of this society, and freque...

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...LLAN. W ASHINGTON CITY, May 15, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN, Cumberland, Virginia: Y our long despatch of yesterday is just received. I will answer ... ...S. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. 1.30 P.M. COLONEL MILES, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia Could you not send scouts from Winchester who would tell whether e... .... WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. 7.15 P.M. MAJOR-GENERAL FREMONT, Franklin, Virginia: Many thanks for the promptness with which you have answered that ... ...Y our despatch of to-day to Secretary of War received. Thanks for the good news it brings. Have you anything from Memphis or other parts of the Mis- s... ... are yet without communication with General McClellan, and this absence of news is our point of anxiety. Up to the latest point to which we are posted... ...Y , July 14, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN: General Burnside’s force is at Newport News, ready to move, on short notice, one way or the other, when or... ... 14, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN: General Burnside’s force is at Newport News, ready to move, on short notice, one way or the other, when ordered. A...

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...R I: INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II: NEWPORT?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ...........................................................

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............................................................... 4 CHAPTER II: NEWPORT—RHODE ISLAND ......................................................... ...has come from the unconscious study of many years. An Englishman handles a newspaper for a quarter of an hour daily, and daily exchanges some few word... ...ar- rel—it is out of the question. “My dear Jones, you must excuse me. Any news in the city to-day? Sugars have fallen; how are teas?” Of course Jones... ... so much in the way of introduc- tion, I will begin my journey. CHAPTER II NEWPORT—RHODE ISLAND We—the we consisting of my wife and myself—left Liverp... ... led to feelings which were personally hostile. All the world has heard of Newport, in Rhode Island, as being the Brighton, and Tenby, and Scarborough... ...y bar, or smoking in a comfortless reading-room among a deluge of American newspapers. And I protest also—hoping as I do so that I may say much in thi... ...t the North will also claim Maryland and Delaware, and the eastern half of Virginia. The North will claim them, though they are attached to the South ... ...n in the great social institution of slavery—for Maryland, Dela- ware, and Virginia are slave States—and I think that the North will ultimately make g... ...im. Maryland and Delaware lie, as it were, behind the capital, and Eastern Virginia is close upon the capital. And these regions are not tropical in t...

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... of noble palaces and grim and ancient castles. CHAPTER II NOW CAME GREAT NEWS! Stunning news—joyous news, in fact. It came from a neighboring state,... ...an and wife entered into a solemn compact, now, to never mention the great news to any one while the relative lived, lest some ignorant person carry t... ...alf a million before it had had time to get cold. CHAPTER III THE LITTLE NEWSPAPER which Aleck had subscribed for was a Thursday sheet; it would mak... ...ay toward the rising sun, immea surably remote, astronomically remote, in Newport, Rhode Is land, Holy Land of High Society, ineffable Domain of the... ... de light. “And it will be the very first in America. Aleck, it will make Newport sick.” Then they fell silent, and drifted away upon their dream win... ...ion of the Declaration of Independence, the speech of Patrick Henry in the Virginia House of Delegates, and many other old time reminiscences of stirr...

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... to do better. Nothing seemed to make her more angry than to see me with a newspaper. She seemed to think that here lay the danger. I have had her rus... ...e had her rush at me with a face made all up of fury, and snatch from me a news- paper, in a manner that fully revealed her apprehension. She was an a... ...isty air:— Gone, gone, sold and gone To the rice swamp dank and lone, From Virginia hills and waters— Woe is me, my stolen daughters!” The hearth is d... ..., on our way to New Bedford. Mr. Ruggles gave me a letter to a Mr. Shaw in Newport, and told me, in case my money did not serve me to New Bedford, to ... ...o stop in New- port and obtain further assistance; but upon our arrival at Newport, we were so anxious to get to a place of safety, that, notwithstand... ...in a neater house; dined at a better table; took, paid for, and read, more newspapers; better understood the moral, religious, and po- litical charact...

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...y any speedy increase. Three avenues sweep the whole length of Washington: Virginia Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Massachusetts Avenue. But Pennsyl... ...be utterly impracticable. They were sold at a window in a corner, at which newspa- pers were also delivered, to which there was no regular ingress and... ..., perhaps, a little tinged with 21 Trollope Southern proclivities. On the Virginian side of the Potomac stands a country- house called Arlington Heig... ...the river, and that Arlington Heights, Alexandria, and Mount Vernon are in Virginia. The River Potomac divided the two old colonies, or States as they... ...t Mr. Seward would find any other line of conduct very in- convenient. The newspapers, one after another, came round. That, under all these circumstan... ...overn- ment behaved well in the matter, no one, I think, can deny; but the newspapers, taken as a whole, were not very consistent, and, I think, not v... ...and given up by the intervention of the Ohio police; and from Covington or Newport any slave with ease can escape into Ohio. But when that divi- 82 N...

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...DROGHING?SAN DIEGO AGAIN, 67 -- CHAPTER XIX ? THE SANDWICH -- ISLANDERS?HIDE-CURING?WOOD-CUTTING? RATTLE-SNAKES?NEW-COMERS 74 -- CHAPTER XX ? LEISURE?NEWS FROM HOME???BURNING THE WATER??, 82 -- CHAPTER XXI ? CALIFORNIA AND ITS INHABITANTS, 87 -- CHAPTER XXII ? LIFE ON SHORE?THE ALERT, 90 -- CHAPTER XXIII ? NEW SHIP AND SHIPMATES?MY WATCHMATE, 94 -- CHAPTER XXIV ? SAN DIEGO...

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...E CURING—WOOD CUTTING— RATTLE SNAKES—NEW COMERS . . 82 CHAPTER XX — LEISURE—NEWS FROM HOME—’’BURNING THE WATER’’ . . . . . . . 87 CHAPTER XXI — CAL... ...ER XXVIII — AN OLD FRIEND—A VICTIM—CALIFORNIA . . . . . . . . . 128 RANGERS—NEWS FROM HOME—LAST LOOKS CHAPTER XXIX — LOADING FOR HOME—A SURPRISE—LAS... ...me cry of ‘‘All starbowlines ahoy! Eight bells there below’ do you hear the news?’’ (the usual formula of calling the watch,) roused us up from our b... ...ust this be in a south easter! The rocks were as large as those of Nahant or Newport, but, to my eye, more grand and broken. Beside, there was a grand... ...n from all parts of the Union I met with; where New England, the Carolinas, Virginia, and the new West sat side by side with English, French, and Ger...

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...ubmit to better judgments. My brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a news paper. It was the second that appeared in America, and was called t... ...nd was called the New England Courant. The only one before it was the Boston News Letter. I remember his being dissuaded by some of his friends from t... ...d by some of his friends from the undertaking, as not likely to succeed, one newspaper being, in their judgment, enough for America. At this time (177... ...York, now with their approbation and their blessing. The sloop putting in at Newport, Rhode Island, I visited my brother John, who had been married an... ...ave me an order. This afterwards occasion’d me a good deal of uneasiness. At Newport we took in a number of passengers for New York, among which were ... ...relations, which I could not sooner well afford. In re turning, I call’d at Newport to see my brother, then settled there with his printing house. Ou... ... continue inimical proceedings. In 1737, Colonel Spotswood, late governor of Virginia, and then postmaster general, being dissatisfied with the con d... ...ents of regular English troops for that purpose. He landed at Alexandria, in Virginia, and thence march’d to Frederictown, in Maryland, where he halte... ...tly for the return of those he had sent thro’ the back parts of Maryland and Virginia to collect waggons. I stayed with him several days, din’d with h...