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So Grandfather told his auditors, that, on General Washington’s arrival at Cambridge, his first care was, to reconnoitre the British troops with his spy-glass, and to examine the condition of his own army. He found that the American troops amounted to about fourteen thousand men.

"As the rear of the British army embarked from the wharf," replied Grandfather, "General Washington’s troops marched over the neck, through the fortification gates, and entered Boston in triumph. And now, for the first time since the pilgrims landed, Massachusetts was free from the dominion of England. May she never again be subjected to foreign rulenever again feel the rod of oppression!"

Accordingly, they came from their different posts, and were ushered into the reception room. The commander-in-chief arose from our great chair to greet them." "What were their names?" asked Charley. "There was General Artemas Ward," replied Grandfather, a "lawyer by profession. He had commanded the troops before Washington’s arrival.

"Until the very last morning after Washington’s troops had shown themselves on Nook’s hill, these unfortunate persons could not believe that the audacious rebels, as they called the Americans, would ever prevail against King George’s army. But, when they saw the British soldiers preparing to embark on board of the ships of war, then they knew that they had lost their country.

Never before had the lion’s head, at the summit of the chair, looked down upon such a face and form as Washington’s!" "Why! Grandfather," cried Clara, clasping her hands in amazement, "was it really so? Did General Washington sit in our great chair?" "I knew how it would be," said Laurence; "I foresaw it, the moment Grandfather began to speak." Grandfather smiled.

Governor Everett, while a professor in the university, resided there. So at an after period, did Mr. Sparks, whose invaluable labors have connected his name with the immortality of Washington. And, at this very time, a venerable friend and contemporary of your Grandfather, after long pilgrimages beyond the sea, has set up his staff of rest at Washington’s head-quarters."

The event exceeded expectation and was one of the most marked musical successes ever recorded. On Washington’s birth-day, February 22d, 1870, ten thousand people filled the Mechanics’ Pavilion to listen to Camilla Urso’s concert. A chorus of twelve hundred composed the choir, and an orchestra of two hundred good musicians furnished the accompaniment for the choral members.

The first thing that he found necessary, was to bring his own men into better order and discipline. It is wonderful how soon he transformed this rough mob of country people into the semblance of a regular army. One of Washington’s most invaluable characteristics, was the faculty of bringing order out of confusion.

Chagrined, probably, at the small amount of consideration that their superior birth commanded, a number of aristocratically minded matrons united a few years ago asDaughters of the Revolution,” restricting membership to women descended from officers of Washington’s army. There may have been a reason for the formation of this society.

On January 25th Madrid newspapers made general comment upon the official explanation of the Maine’s visit to Havana, and agreed in expressing the opinion that her visit isinopportune and calculated to encourage the insurgents.” It was announced that, “following Washington’s example,” the Spanish government willinstruct Spanish war-ships to visit a few American ports.”