the name and residence of such their respective lists, and add words "by certificate from

shall remove said deputy registrar and ap- list sball vote, or attempt to vote, at either point another in his place, which said re- of the elections named in this act, on the recorded on the town records by the town said list, he shall pay a fine of one hundred moval and new appointment shall be duly name of any other person whose name is on dollars, and be imprisoned one year in the

clerk.

istrars shall, before entering upon the dus
SEC. 13. The registrars and deputy reg
ties of their office, take the oath by law
provided for executive officers, and lodge a
certificate of the fact with the town clerk,
who shall keep the same on file in his of

SEC. 16. If any person other than the reg istrars shall make any alterations, additions, by erasures or otherwise, in the liste prepar ed by said registrars, or if the presiding of ficer of any town meeting in either of said towns, or of any city meeting in said city of New Haven, or any other person baving charge of any ballot box in any voting district, at any election in either of said towns shall allowany person to deposit his vote or in any ward id said city of New Haven, therein, whose name is not on the registry list, or shall refuse to allow any person to vote whose name is on said list, without the assent of both of the registrars of said voting district, he shall be punished by a fiue not prisonment in the county jail not exceeding exceeding one hundred dollars, or by im three months, or by such fine and impris onment both; and it shall be the duty of either of the grand jurors of either of said towns, and also the right of person aggriev ed, or of either of the registrars of said towns, to forthwith prosecute any violation of this action.

elector on thereto the naming the town from which such elector's "(therein certificate came ;) but the name of no elector shall be added to such list unless, in addition to proof that he is a legally qualified elect-uty registrar to act in preparing the regis SEC 12. It shall be the duty of the dep-county jail. or of this state he shall also furnish proof, if try list, only in case of the inability of the required, that he has resided in said town registrar to perfect the sa:ne; and, in case where said registrars reside, the period of of the resignation or death of the registrar, four months next immediately preceding the then said deputy registrar shall become day of the ensuing election. And said regis- the registrar, and shall immediately appoint trars may, on the day of election, add in writ- another person to the office of deputy reg. ing the name and residence of any elector istrar, which said appointment shall be du which may have been omitted by mistake or. inadvertence, fraud or clerical error, and may ly recorded by the town clerk. erase from said lists the names of any persons who were not legally entitle to vote at said election; provided, that no such names shall be added or erased, unless upon consent of both the registrars of said district: and no person shall be allowed to vote for any officer, at any election holden within either of said towns, whose name is not on said registry lists in the town where he offers to vote; provided, that whenever said registrars shall refuse to add the name of any elector to said lists, or shall erase the name of any elector who claims a right to vote at said election, such elector may appeal from the decision of said registrars to the board of selectmen; and said registrars shall certify to the selectmen the reason of their refusal, when the appeal is taken; and the board of selectmen shall examine, under oath, such elector, and such other persons as may offer as witnesses either in behalf of or against his claims; and if such elector shall prove to the satisfaction of the board of selectmen, that his name was omitted from the registry list by fraud or clerical errors, they may direct the registrars to add his name to said registry list.

SEC. 10. At the annual town meetings for the election of town officers hereafter to be held in the said towns of Hartford, New Haven and Middletown, and at the annual city meetings for the election of city officers in the city of New Haven, the voters at each of said meetings shall cast their ballots in the voting districts of wards where their names were registered at the time when the last preceding registry list was made and published, and no person shall be allowed to vote in either said town or city meetings whose names are not on the registry list. Provided, how ever, that the registrars may have the right to add to said lists in writing, at least three days preceding either of said elections, the names only of such persons as may be entitled to vote therein, who were not entitled to vote at the preceding state or presidential elec

tion.

SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of each reg istrar, immediately after his election, to appoint a deputy registrar, whose name and appointment shall be deposited with the town clerk of the town where the said regtar resides, and shall be, by said town clerk, recorded on the town records, at the end of the record of the town meeting at which said registrars were elected; and in case said deputy registrar shall from any cause be unable or unwilling to perform the duties of his office, then the registrar

fice.

ties shall have the right to administer
SEC. 14. The registrars and their depu-
oaths or affirmations, whenever in the dis-
charge of any of the duties of their office
they, or either of them, shall deem it ne-
cessary or proper to take the testimony
of any person whatsoever regarding the
right of any person to vote or to be made
a voter. The form of the oath to be ad-
ministered by the registrars and their dep-
uties shall be as follows:-"You solemnly
swear that concerning the matter now in
question, you will tell the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth, so help
you God." And the said registrars and
their deputies shall keep a record of the
names and residence and testimony, of all
persons to whom said oath or affirmation
was administered, and any person who
shall swear falsely before said registrars or
their deputies, shall be deemed to be guil-
ty of the crime of perjury, and punished
with the penalty thereof.

SEC, 17, The registrars ol the several vo ting districts in said [towns] of New Hav ven and Hartford, who were chosen at the last annual town elections in said towns, shall continue in office till their next an nual town election, and until others are chosen and sworn in their places; but each of said registrars shall on or before the 15th day of July, 1860, appoint a deputy registrar, in accordance with the provisions of this act.

SEC. 18. The compensation of the reg istrars and deputy registrars shall be fixed by the selectinen of said towns of Hart

SEC. 15. It shall be the duty of the reg-ford, New Haven and Middletown respect istrars to be at the ballot boxes in their ively; and all expenses incurred by the respective voting districts in each of the registrars for printing lists of voters, and elections for state officers, presidential elec- all other necessary expenses incurred by tors, and town officers in each of said them in the discharge of their duties, sball towns, and for city officers in said city of be paid by the treasurer of said respective New Haven, held during the year for which towns. they were elected; to hear and decide any SEC. 19. The selectmen and town clerk questions pertaining to them, which may of each of said towns of Hartford, New arise touching the right of any person to Haven and Middletown shall meet in their vote, who may offer to vote at either of respective towns, at such convenient place said elections, and on each of said elections as they may appoint, on the Monday of each of sai registrars shall emp.oy his as the third week preceding the week on sistant registrar, or some other suitable which the annual state election,or the elec person or persons, to keep a list of the tion for the choice of electors of president rames and residences of all persons votin and vice president of the United States at their resepctive voting places, and also shall be held, for the purpose of deciding to check the names of all such persons on upon all applications to be admitted to the the registry lists, which said registry list, privileges of an elector, and shall continue so checked, shall have the number of names in session for that purpose, from nine o' checked thereon certified to by the regis- clock in the forenoon, till five o'clock in trars of the respective districts, and, to- the afternoon of said day, if so long a time gether with said record of names, shall im be necessary; and may adjourn said meet. mediately after the closing of the polls, beings from time to time, fron place to place, deposited in the office of the town clerk, by whom they shall be safely kept and be open for the inspection of any elector, and if any person whose name is not on the registry

as may be necessary, until the Thursday of the following week at nine o'clock in the forenoon, when they shall, at five o' clock in the afternoon of said Thursday,

SEC. 2. At the annual electors' meeting for the election of state officers and other officers required by law to be voted for at such meetings; and at the electors' meetings for the election of electors of president and vice-president of the United States, the persons qualified to vote shall give in their ballots in the district wherein the name of each person is registered, according to the provisions of this act.

The name of each person who is qualified to vote at any of said meetings shall be registered in only one district at the same time, which shall be the district wherein such person has his place of lodging at the time of such regis

SEC. 22. Whenever the town clerk of eitber of said towns shall give a certificate tration. to any person that he is is an elector of SEC. 3. The selectmen of said towns shall said town, it shall be his duty to keep a record of the name of such elector, the date when such certificate was granted, to whom given, and the name of the town where said certificate is to be used.

provide a suitable and convenient place for
voting, at such electors' meetings, in each dis-
trict of their respective towns, and shall give
public notice thereof at least three weeks be-
fore the day of such meeting, and they shall
procure for the use of the electors, at such
meeting, the necessary ballot boxes, for the
purpose of receiving the votes of the electors
in the several districts, which boxes shall be
used in said districts in the same manner as is
now by law provided.

SEC. 9. The board of registration in each town shall give notice of the time and place of holding their sessions, to correct and revise the lists of said districts, as SEC. 4. At such electors' meetings, the pre-aforesaid, upon each of the lists posted in siding officer, who shall be chosen under the the several districts, as is nerein before pro

vided, and also by advertising in one or more newspapers in each town respectively, if any are published therein. And said board shall be in session,in each town,at the place of voting in the first district on the day when said electors' meeting shall take place; which said session shall be for the purpose of admitting as electors only those applicants, legally qualified to be so admitted, whose right to be made electors shall have accrued since the last meeting of the board. But the names of such electors so admitted shall not be added to the list of the district in which they have their place of lodging, unless at or before the last prior meeting of said board, notice shall have been given to said board of the intention of such persons so to apply to be admitted electors and their names shall have been entered on the list of their said district, under the head of "Intended Applications," and it shall be the duty of the board to give such electors so admitted, a certificate addressed to the presiding officer of the district wherein such electors are entitled to vote, stating the fact of their admission; and the presiding officer to whom said certificate is addressed, shall, on receipt thereof, enter the name of the person therein mentioned in the list of said district, who shall thereupon be allowed to vote in said district.

ted by fraud or clerical mistake from the purpose; and in all cases in which the asses
duplicate copy delivered to said presiding sors in any town have omitted to post notices,
officer.
or publish the same, in accordance with the
provisions of the third section of an act enti-
tled "An Act for the Assessment and Collee
tion of Taxes," and in all cases in which as
sessors have omitted to sign, or return, or
make oath to, an abstract of the assessme
lists of their respective towns, or to lodge the
same in the towns clerk's office in said tow
by the fifteenth day of December in each year
or have not included in said abstract the list
or a part of the list, of any person; and in al
cases in which the assessors have not signed
the assessment list or lists of their respective
towns collectively, but have signed the same
individually, as for districts or societies in said
towns, or have not signed them at all; and in
all cases where said assessment list has been
added to made out, or altered, before the
boards of relief have equalized and adjuste
the returns and assessments of their respective
towns; and in all cases in which the board of
relief in any town have met for the transac
tion of business before the first Monday d
January in each year, or have omitted to
give notice of the time and place of their
meetings, according to law; and in all cases
in which the town clerk of any town has not
Accounts, an abstract of the list of such
transmitted to the Comptroller of Public
towns, by the first day of March in each year.
and in which said assessors, or members of such
board of relief, have omitted to take the oth
provided by law; or when the assessors in
any town have assessed any company or co-
as-poration under a name or firm by which they
are generally known or recognized, yet other
than that by which they are known in law
such assessment lists shall not, for any such
causes, be adjudged void, but the same se
hereby ratified and confirmed; and all taxes
which have been, or shall be hereafter laid and
imposed, according to such assessment lists
may, notwithstanding, be levied and collected
provided, this act shall not affect any
now pending.

SEC. 13. Immediately after the ballot
boxes are closed, at any of the elector's
meetings herein provided for, the presid-
ing officer, and his assistants presiding in
the several districts, shall, with the aid of
the civil authority then present, and such
other person only as he may select pro-
ceed in their respective districts to sort
and count the votes which may have been
given in said districts; and the several as-
sistant presiding officers shall each make a
true certificate of all the ballots given for
the respective officers voted for in said dis-
tricts, and shall each forthwith transmit
such certificate, together with the votes
received, and the list of voters as check-
ed, to the presiding officer in the
first district, and thereupon the said
presiding officer, after having ascertain-
ed the results of the ballots in the whole
town, as given in, in the several districts
as aforesaid, shall declare the same in open
neeting. The presiding officer of the first
district shall make the lists of the votes
given in said town at any such electors'
meeting, and make return thereof in the
wanner now provided by law for the pre-
siding officers of electors' meeting.
SEC. 14. Any person who shall take a
false oath before said board of registration,
shall be liable to the pains and penalties of
perjury.

board of

Sec. 10. In each town duplicate copies shall be made of the corrected list of each district-one set of which duplicate shall, on or before the Wednesday of the week SEC. 15. If any member of the next preceding any day of election as afore-registration, any presiding officer or said, be lodged in the office of the town clerk sistant presiding officer, of an electors' for public inspection, and the town clerk on meeting, or any clerk appointed to perform payment of the legal fees shall furnish a the service specified in this act, shall, withcertified copy to any one desiring it, and out just or reasonable cause, refuse or nethe other of said duplicates shall, before the glect to discharge any of the duties hereopening of the polls in each district at any prescribed, he shall, on conviction, be subelectors' meeting, be distributed among the ject to a fine of three hundred dollars; and presiding officers in the several districts, if said member, presiding officer, assistant each presiding officer receiving the dupli- presiding officer, or clerk, shall be guilty cate list of his own district-and such pre- of fraud in performing said duties, he shall siding officer shall cause the name of each be subject to a fine of not more than five elector to be checked on said list at the hundred dollars, and to imprisonment in the time of voting. county jail six months.

SEC. 11. The list used in each district on the day of election with the marks or checks upon the same, shall by the presi~ ding officer in the first district, within twenty-four hours after the ballot box is closed in said district, be lodged in the of fice of the town clerk, where the same shall be kept on file and carefully preserved.

S

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and
after the day of its passage.
Approved, June 23, 1860.
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SEC. 16. If any person shall willfully give a false name or a false answer to said board of registration, while in session, be shall pay a fine of fifty dollars, and be im- AND WHERE THEY CAN BE BOUGHT AT prisoned in the county jail three months; Low and Uniform Prices! and if any person shali vote or attempt to vote, at either of the elections named in this act, by assuming the name of any other person whose name is on said list, be shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars,and be imprisoned one year in the county jail.

SEC. 17. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, June 23d, 1860,

SEC. 12. The officer presiding in each district at the electors meetings shall re ceive the votes of all persons whose names are on the list prepared for the district wherein such officer is presiding. The name of no person shall be added to the list of any of said districts on election day, except as provided in the ninth section of this act; nor shall any person rote whose name is not on the list of the district in which he claims the right to vote, unless he shall furnish to the presiding of ficer of said district satisfactory proof that SEC. 1. That in all cases where the asseshis name appeared on the original corrected sors or board of relief, in any town, have been list of said district, and that it was ommit-elected at a meeting not legally warned for the

CHAPTER LXXIV.

An Act to confirm the doings of Assessors
it enacted by the Se rate and House of Representa-
and Boards of Relief, in certain Cases.

Be

twes, in General Assembly convened:

CHRISTOPHER CULVER,
AT No. 12 MAIN STREET,

HAS ALWAYS ON HAND A

Very Desirable and Choice Selection

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Which purchasers are solicited to examine before purchasing.

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Vol. III.

EMPIRE OF WOMAN,

BY W. H. STARR NEW-LONDON, CT.

Her might is gentleness-she winneth sway
By a soft word and softer look;
Where she, the gentle loving one hath failed,
The proud or stern might never yet succeed.
Strength, power, and majesty belong to man,
They make the glory native to his life,
But sweetness is a woman's attribute:
By that she has reigned, and by that will reign.
There has been some who with a mightier mind
Have won dominion, but they never won
The dearer empire of the beautiful;
Sweet sovereigns of their natural loveliness.

Thursday, August 2, 1860.

that, if the weakness of our constitution-
if opinion and manners did not forbid us,
to march to glory by the same path as the
men, we should at least equal, and some-
times surpass them in our love for public
good. I glory in all that my sex have
done that is great and commendable. I

call to mind with enthusiasm and with
admiration all those acts of courage, of
constancy and patriotism, which history
has transmitted to us: the people favored
by Heaven, preserved from destruction by
the virtues, the zeal and the resolution of

ONE DOLLAR A YEAR

No. 24.

} labors, your dangers. If I live happy in the midst of my family; if my husband cultivates his field, and reaps his harvest in peace; if, surrounded with my children, I myself nourish the youngest, and press it to my bosom without being afraid of seeing myself separated from it by a ferocious enemy; if the house in which we dwell, if our barns, our orchards, are safe at the present time from the hands of the And shall we hesitate to evidence to you incendiary; it is to you that we owe it.— our gratitude? shall we hesitate to wear a clothing more simple; hair dressed less

PATRIOTISM OF THE LADIES OF THE REV- Deborah, of Judith, of Esther-the forti-elegantly, while, at the price of this small

OLUTION.

BY PROF. C. C. BENNETT.

tude of the mother of the Maccabees, in giving up her sons to die before her eyesRome saved from the fury of a victorious enemy by the efforts of Volumnia and Apropos to the Mount Vernon monu- other Roman Ladies-so many famous ment of the Ladies of our time, was that seiges where the women have been seen of the noble Women of the Revolution; forgetting the weakness of their sex, build who dividing Philadelphia into districts, ing our walls, digging trenches with their appointed select committees to visit every feeble hands, furnishing arms to their dehouse, which they did and received con- fenders, they themselves darting the mistributions for the suffering soldiers, two sile-weapons cn the enemy, resigning the thousand one hundred and seven shirts-ornaments of their apparel, and their for

and a paper of the time states, the total amount of the donations received by the Ladies of Philadelphia for the American Army, to be three hundred thousand seven hundred and sixty six dollars in paper currency. This was in the winter of 1780.

The following is the address of an We are certain that he cannot be a "American Woman," extracted from the good citizen, who will not applaud our efnewspapers of that day, immediately suc-forts for the relief of the armies which deceeding the publication of which, the no-fend our lives, our possessions and liberty. ble work of the ladies began.

privation, we shall deserve your benedictions?

Who among us will not renounce with the highest pleasure those vain ornaments when she shall consider that the valiant defenders of America will be able to draw some advantage from the money which she may have lain out in these?--that

they will be better defended from the rig

ors of the seasons; that after their painful toils they will receive some extraordinary and unexpected relief; that these presents

ture, to fill the public treasury, and to has- will perhaps be valued by them at a great. ten the deliverance of their country; buryer price, when they will have it in their ing themselves under its ruins; throwing themselves into the flames, rather than sub-power to say, This is the offering of the ladies! The time is arrived to display the mit to the disgrace of humiliation before a same sentiments which animated us at the proud enemy. beginning of the revolution, when we renounced the use of teas, however agreeable to our taste, rather than receive them from our persecutors: when we made it appear so, them that we placed former The situation of our soldiery has been rep- necessaries in the rank of superfluities, "On the commencement of actual war, resented to me; the evils inseparable from when our liberty was interested; when the women of America manifested a firm war, and the firm and generous spirit our republican and laborious hands spun resolution to contribute as much as could which has enabled them to support these. the flax and prepared the linen intended depend on them to the deliverance of this But it has been said that they may appre- for the use of our soldiers; when, exiles country. Animated by the purest patri-hend that, in the course of a long war, the and fugitives are supported with courage otism, they are full of sorrow at this day, view of their distresses may be lost, and all the evils which are the concomitants of in not offering more than barren wishes their armies be forgotten. Forgotten war. Let us not lose a moment; let us be for the success of so glorious a revolution. Never! I can answer in the name of all engaged to offer the homage of our gratiThey aspire to render themselves more my sex. Brave Americans, your disinter- tude at the altar of military valor; and readily useful; and this sentiment is uni-estedness, your courage, and your constan- you, our brave deliverers, while mercenaversal, from the north to the south of the cy will always be dear to America, so ry slaves combat to cause you to share with Thirteen United States. Our ambition is long as she shall preserve her virtue. them the irons with which they are loaded, kindled by the fame of those heroines of We know that at a distance from the receive with a free hand our offering, the antiquity, who have rendered their sex il- theatre of war, if we enjoy any tranquili- purest which can be presented to your virlustrious, and have proved to the world ty, it is the fruit of your watchings, your tue."

?

In the street, the first principles of insub

THE REPOSITORY ordination and disobedier.ce have been en

NEW-LONDON, CONN.

BY W. H. STARR.
Thursday, August 2, 1860.

SOCIAL EVILS.

NUMBER THREE,

STREET ASSOCIATIONS.

a

There are many evils inseparable from city life, from which the country is comparatively free. We are often reminded of sermon on the evils of such associations preached by a clerical friend, in one of our large cities, from the text, "And CAIN builded a city." In his contrast between a city and country life, he enumerated the evils of the former, and their aggregate was vastly greater than that of the latter. And among these (and not the least of them in our estimation,) is the sad influence of street associations. In many instances our children, especially our sons, are scarcely out of their mother's arms, ere they are in the public streets. Almost as soon as they are capable of ruunning alone, they may be seen at play upon the sidewalks and not unfrequently in the gutters. And as they grow older and begin to act in some measure independently of nurses and parents, this habit increases, until they can scarcely be kept from an almost unrestrained indulgence in it. And what is the result? Alas! sad experience too often soon developes what one would scarcely have expected or believed. Children are creatures of imitation and their habits acquired from their street associates are most generally pernicious. Whatever may be their facilities for improvng the mind, or however they may improve their other cpportunities, they are certain to acquire, very rapidly, a street education.

How often the bold falsehood, the obscene epithet, or the profane oath from even tender lips, first startles the parents from their dreams of the innocence of their children, which, like the sudden meteor's flash discloses the fearful vortex into which "Where did you learn they are entering. that!" enquires the almost horror stricken parent. "In the street," replies the child, with a scarcely faltering tone. Yes, in the street, before the fond parent is aware, the tender mind of the unsuspecting child has been vitiated. In the street the insidious evil has been lurking. In the street the corrupting influence has been at work.

gendered, and in the street the deadly
poison has been imbibed, which, unless
speedily eradicated, will prove fatal to ev-
ery future prospect of the peace and hap-
piness of the child, and like the deadly
Upas, shed its torpid influence upon the
young heart, until its ruin is consumated.
Let parents as they value the comfort, the
peace, or the reputation of their children,

keep them from this untoward influence.

Let those who love the children over

whom they have watched with a mother's
fondness or a father's pride, and reared
like tender plants to flourish by their side,
restrain them from unnecessary exposure
in that great thoroughfare to evil-that
highway to ruin-The Public Street.

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.

The centennial celebration of the or-
ganization of the 2nd Congregational
Church, (Rev. Dr. Bond's,) at Norwich,
took place last Thursday week in accord-
ance with previous arrangements. The
day was propitious, and the occasion one
of much interest, not only to the present
of the congregation, but by
members
many of the former members who were
invited by the committee to participate in
the festivities of the occasion. A large
number of the citizens of Norwich and the
adjacent towns, were also in attendance,
and shared largely in the interests of the
celebration.

The exercises consisted in reading selec-
tions from the Scriptures by Rev. Thos.
L. Shipman and prayer by Rev. H. P.
Arms, after which the following Hymn,
written for the occasion by Anson G.
Chester, Esq., of Buffalo, N. Y., was sung
by the choir.

A century's suns have shone and set,
Since first our pious fathers met,
And builded here a holy shrine,
And planted here a tender vine.
Through all the long and weary years

That vine they watered with their tears,
God saw the vigils, heard their cries,

And sent a blessing from the skies.

That shrine by many a foot was sought,
That vine a glorious fruitage brought,
Jehovah bade the blossoms start,
And twined the tendrils round-His heart.
Oh, God! thy gracious ear incline,

To those who keep this larger vine,
And give it rain and dew and sun,

And take its clusters from thine own.
And when our watchful eyes shall close,

And death shall bring us sweet repose,
Still let this vine receive thy care,-

Still let it thrive and let it bear!

Oh may this shrine be made thy home,
Through all the changing years to come,
And, tears and toils and struggles past,

Fathers and children meet at last!

This was followed by an interesting Historical Address by Rev. Dr. Bond, the hours in its delivery. It was a producpastor, which occupied more than two tion worthy of the distinguished speaker, and was listened to with deep attention by the large audience in attendance until its close, when two more hymns were sung by the choir, one of which was written for the occasion by our talented and highly esteemed contributor Miss F. M. Caulkins of this city, in her happiest style, which we copy from the Bulletin.

We praise thee, Lord, that thou did'st found,
This church on Christ, the Rock,
And still has't kept it walled around,
From error's fatal shock.

Praise for the souls of precious worth,
Renewed and nurtured here:
Praise for our vine's celestial birth,
And for our hundredth year.
Praise for the pure and honored names,
Upon our shield enrolled :

For Niles (1) whose fame the nation claims,
For King. (2) devout and bold.

For Hooker, (3) mid the angeis sphered,
For Mitchell, (4) crowned and blest;
For living guides, (5) whose light has cheered,
Full many a darkened breast.

For trials that the church refine,

For good men passed away;
For yon fair scion from our viue.(6)
Our sister church to day.

Now Savior, let thy grace divine,
Fall on us like the dew;
Say to thy chureh, Arise and shine!
Revive our love anew.

So may the century begin,
High o'er the past ascend;
A noble throng of converts win-
In loftier anthems end.

1. Rev. Nathaniel Niles, the patriot preacher of the Revolution, author of the beautiful ode, entitled "The American Hero."

2. Rev. Walter King, ordained May 24, 1787. 3. Rev.Ashael Hooker, installed Jan. 16. 1812. 4. Rev. Alfred Mitchell, ordained Oct. 27, 1814. 5. Rev. James T. Dickinson, dismissed in 1834, to go on a mission to China, and Rev. Alvan Bond. D. D., the present pastor.

6. The Broadway Congregational Church-a colony from the Second Church, organized, June 1, 18.