DE SENECTUTE.-In 1744 a translation of Cicero's De Senectute, by Mr. Logan, was "printed and sold by B. Franklin," at Philadelphia. A short preface by "The Printer to the Reader" was added, wherein Franklin says: "I shall add to these few Lines my hearty Wish, that this first Translation of a Classic in this Western World, may be followed with many others, performed with equal Judgment and Success; and be a happy Omen, that Philadelphia shall become the Seat of the American Muses. Philadelphia, Febr. 29, 1743, 4."

This is incorrect. Nearly a century previous to this time, a translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses was made in Virginia, by George Sandys. See Bancroft's Hist. of U. S. (Boston, 1855), vol. i., p. 234.

Can any one inform me whether there was any other "Translation of a Classic in this Western World," made previous to 1744? BOSTON. S. A. G. THE EYE-A periodical called The Eye was published in Philadelphia in the year 1805-6. Can any person give me the names of any of the writers for the same? A. W., JR.

PHILADELPHIA, April 3, 1858.

REV. DR. KEATING.-The Albany Gazette of 14th April, 1791, mentions, in an extract from a South Carolina paper of the preceding month, the name of the Rev. Dr. Keating, missionary of the Church of Rome in Charleston, S. C. Can any of your readers furnish particulars of this clergyman?

E.

Holcroft speaks of Murray's "open and wellbred manners," and of the pleasure it gave him to meet such an "affinity" abroad, with a mode of expression truly English: "It is the green mould of Cheshire cheese, which is always poignant to the taste, when at home; but, abroad, it is a luxury which money can seldom procure."

Murray spoke sensibly of the foundation of the American character in the English; hence A CURIOUS MEDAL.-I have in my possession from the daring spirit of many of the original its "mixture of democracy""greater, perhaps, a silver medal, struck at about the time of colonists: men who had offended the laws of Washington's death. It is a little larger and thicker than the old Spanish quarter of a dollar. England, and had been sent into the woods and On one side is an excellent profile of Washing-wilds of America to effect their reform. Here ton, surrounded by a wreath of laurel, inclosed in the words " HE IS IN GLORY, THE WORLD IN TEARS." On the other side is a Memorial Urn, and around it, forming two circles, are the follow ing words and letters: "B. F. 11, 1732. G. A. Army. 75. R. '83. P. U. S. A. '89 | R. '96. G. ARM. U. S. '98. O B. D. 14, 1799." What is the history of this medal? Was it struck by order of Congress, a society, or by an individual?

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., April, 1858.
GARLICK.-

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"NEW YORK, April 15, 1724. "HON'D SIR: I now send by John Gardiner a ps. single-folded Garlick @ £3 12, and a piece of strip'd Holland, £2 10. They will be taken again if not liked."

necessity rendered them industrious and orderly; the assaults of the native Indians. The progress and their audacious habits fitted them to repel of the American Revolution might be traced: it was prepared, gradual, and for that reason took a permanent form. In France, the revolution was sudden, the shock violent, and the change extreme.'

Murray told a good story of the old feudal rights. "During the lying-in of the lady of the manor, the vassals were obliged to silence all the frogs: if the latter croaked, the former were fined or punished."

A prophetic declaration of French liberty, thus far, alas, is proved to be but too truthful. Murray "maintained it would require a century and a half to render the French as free as the Americans are at present." One third of the

period has passed; what will be the verdict at How the absurd story that the cents of 1814 conthe end of the remainder?

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN GREENWICH AND THE AMERICAN COLONIES.-There is a strong impression upon my mind that I have read somewhere, that when the American Colonies complained that they were taxed by Parliament without being represented in that body, an honorable gentleman replied that such complaint was groundless, as the Americans were represented by "the member from Greenwich." With all my searches and inquiries, I have been unable to locate the story, and I should like to be informed by you or some of your readers, whether any such incident ever did occur, and if so, where it is mentioned. There are other circumstances that go to show some connection between the American colonies and Greenwich. Several (perhaps all) of the Royal patents to lands in the State of New York, were thus in what the lawyers call the habendum clause: "To have and to hold, of us and our heirs, in free and common socage, as of our manor of East Greenwich, in the county of Kent;" and it is a well-known fact that the colonies were under the spiritual jurisdiction of the Bishop of London, in whose diocese, I suppose, Greenwich is. Can you throw any light upon this subject, and explain what the nature of this connection was? G. H.

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tained gold originated, I am unable to explain.
Chemical tests have, in several instances, been
applied to the cents of that year, but the pre-
sence of gold has never yet been detected.
TROY, N. Y., March 5, 1858.

B. H. H.

"THE SONG OF THE VERMONTERS."-(Vol. ii. No. 1, page 23.)—The citation of this song as a genuine specimen of early ballad-making has not escaped my notice heretofore, but I have not taken the trouble to claim the questionable honor of its authorship. "Hela" is not mistaken, however. The verses are mine, and were first published by my friend, J. T. Buckingham, Esq., in the N. E. Magazine. J. G. W.

AMESBURY, 1858.

PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON BY E. SAVAGE.— As an answer to the latter part of the last query by C. A. P., in the December number of H. M., I condense the notice of Mr. Savage, (the "great Savage," as Jarvis used to call him) as found in Dunlap's "History of the Arts, of Design." Mr. Savage was probably a native of New England. He painted in New York in 1789, previous to which he had been in Philadelphia, and according to Dunlap, "would not be worthy of notice as an artist, but as connected with others." Savage was but a rude engraver, and the prints that bear his name, were done by artists employed by him, as Edwin, Jarvis, and others. John Wesley Jarvis was apprenticed to him, and Edwin, the celebrated engraver, was in his employ in 1798. Savage published prints from his own wretched pictures, mended and engraved by Edwin, but with Savage's name inscribed as engraver. He had a Museum and Picture Gallery in Greenwich street, New York. The "Washington Family" was published by him, engraved by Edwin, and assisted by Jarvis, who made it tolerable. If the picture mentioned by "C. A. P." has merit as an engraving, it could hardly have been produced in this country in 1793, which appears to be the date it bears, Another Reply-Cents of the coinage of as at that time there was no engraver of ability 1814 are occasionally met with in circula- here. In regard to the state of the art in Philalation. I have a number of them in my posses-delphia, in 1794, Valance says: "The engravers sion. A reference to the tables of the mint, containing a statement of its operations in different years, shows that in 1814 $3,578 30 worth of copper was coined, and that no cents were minted in 1815, or 1823.

UNITED STATES CENT, 1814.-Cents coined in 1814 may be occasionally met with, though I think them quite rare. I have several in my possession. On looking over large quantities at various times, I have never met with a single genuine one of 1815. The records of the Mint state, that the amount of copper coinage for 1814 was $3,578 30, but none was coined the succceding year, according to the records, though I have no doubt some few were struck off.

BALTIMORE, March 6, 1858.

MADISON.

I have heard it stated that the scarcity of copper, incident to the war of 1812, was the reason that so few cents were coined in 1813 and 1814, and that none were coined in 1815.

were employed on card-plates, with a festoon of wretched flowers-then there was engraving on type metal, silver plate, and dog collars, and such was the state of engraving here in 1794." Some time near the date on the imprint of "C. A. P.'s" print, viz., 1793, Mr. Savage was in England, and this print may have been engraved there, or it may have been the work of an English engraver (name unknown), who Savage

brought with him, on his return to this country,

Jarvis, speaking of Savage, says, "I was bound apprentice to the most ignorant beast that ever imposed upon the public. He painted what he called fancy pieces, and historical subjects, and they were published as being designed and engraved by him, though his painting was execrable, and he knew nothing of engraving."

For a more extended notice see Dunlap's History of the Arts of Design, vol. i., p. 321-vol. ii., pp. 68, 69, 75 and 76.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1858.

Wм. H. WHITING.

Another Reply.-In the records of the Selectmen, March, 1788, I find the following vote-"It is the direction of the Selectmen, that the officers of the police of the several wards visit the same, in order to discover strangers that come into the town, and if they are not satisfied with the account they give of themselves, to order them to depart the town immediately to prevent their being sent out by a constable."

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April 10, 1793, Col. Waters appointed to superintend the warning strangers to depart the town. This is the last note I find on the matter; but in April, 1794, Col. Waters was appointed as officer of police the ensuing year.' There was no charter to the town, but it was governed at that time by a Board of Selectmen.

The following entry probably refers to the same subject. "May, 1795, Judge Sullivan informs the Board, that he has, within. thirteen days, received as a servant in his house in Boston, Ellen Pendergrass, who has a husband living in the Province of Nova Scotia, and she is about forty years of age, of good character, and very unlikely to become chargeable to this or any other town."

BOSTON, March 5, 1858.

W. G. B.

"BOSTON WARNING STRANGERS TO LEAVE."(Vol. ii., p. 91).—It was provided by the law of Massachusetts Bay, 4th William and Mary, 1692, chap. 15. "Ancient charters and laws of Massachusetts Bay," in substance, that the Selectmen should cause all strangers who came to reside in any town to be warned to depart, and in case the person so warned did not leave within fourteen days, on complaint being made to a Justice of the Peace, he could "be sent and conveyed from constable to constable, unto the town where he properly belongs, or had his last residence." But if the Selectmen omitted to have him warned, "and for the space of three months" he acquired a settlement in the town, and if THE MOHAWKS.-Allow me to differ with your he became poor, was to be supported by the correspondent as to the meaning of the word town where he had taken up his residence. In Mohawk. Roger Williams's etymology can hard1701, 13 Will. III., chap. 77, Ancient Charterly stand the test of examination. It is evident and Laws of Mass. Bay, the time within which the warning must be made was extended to twelve months, and he thus acquired a settlement unless he was warned out within that time, and this continued to be the law in Massachusetts until Feb. 11, 1794. The custom under the authority of these laws varied in the several towns. In some towns only those persons were "warned out," that the Selectmen had reason to suppose If we turn to the Mohawk language for their might become poor, and stand in need of relief, name, we find this confirmed. The nation as a or were idle or disorderly persons. In other body politic, as one bore the name of Ganniagtowns it was the custom to "warn out" every ari. Bruyas says in his Racines Agnières, p. one who came to reside in the town, and high 68, Ganniaguari, une ourse, c'est le nom de and low, rich and poor, without respect to per-l'Agnier. Here it will be observed in conformsons, were waited upon by the constable with warrant in hand. After such warning, if they continued to reside in the town, and afterwards became paupers, or any of their descendants after them, and required support, the expense therefor was a legal charge upon the town from which they came, if within the state.

Similar laws were enacted in New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, and probably other States, and continued in force many years after they were repealed in Massachusetts. J. G. L.

BOSTON, March 5, 1858.

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that the word Mohawk is an anglicized Indian word, and we must go back to its earliest form to find the true Indian term. The Dutch who preceded us here give the name Mahakuaas, and also shorter and more commonly Maquas. Now in the great mass of Algonquin dialects from the Atlantic to Lake Superior, Maqua means the Bear.

ity with Indian usage, he employs the singular when speaking of them as a body politic, a unit: and all the early French writers seem to have adopted the same mode.

On page 4 he also gives the name as the appellation for the constellation Ursa Major.

Maqua, Mohawk, is then but the translation of the name given by the nation to themselves.

An individual was called Ganniegé, and from this the tribe as composed of individuals was styled Ganniegéhage or Ganniegeronon (Bruyas), Kajingahaga (Megapolensis), Ganningehage (Bar