The New York Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1875, Page 22

@ NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1875. tea. at various town m voted ‘to ine ieir stock of ammunition, ‘to encourage ry discipline and to put | themselves in @ posture o! deience against their enemies.” In Decemver they distributed to “the | ia band and alarm list’? arms and ammuni- | tiou, aud resolved to “supply the tratuing soidiers with bayouets.’? ‘AL two ib the morning, under the eye of tie minister and of Hancock aud Adams, Lexington Cowmon Was alive with toe mimure men; and not with them only, but wita tue old men aise, who were exempts ex Immediate danger to tue town. The roll was called, and of militia ad alarm men about 180 answered to their names, The Captalp, John Parker, ordered every ove to load with powder and ball, but not to be the frst to fire, Messengers Bett to lok for the British regulars reported that there were no signs of their approach, A Watch Was therefore set, and the company aismissed witn orders to come together at beat ot drum, Some went to thelr homes; some to the tavern, bear the southeass corner of the Common, Adams aod Hancock, whose proscription had already been divulged and whose seizure was be- Neved to be intended, were persuaded to retire ward Woburn. ‘ofne last stars were vanishing from night, when the Joremost pery: lea by Pitoairn, ® major of marines, ag discovered ad- ancidg quickly afd im Silence, Alarm guns fre and the drums beut, not @ call i) ? Y to vill busbandmen only, but tre revellie hid to humanity. Less than seventy, perhaps le wud L than sixty, obeyed the sUMONS, abd In sight of bal! as many boys d una «i men were e paraded in two ranks & w rods north of ta eelng house. “ie © ten in that building had they looked An [nterview with the Aged | up to Gou as tne stay of their fathers and the 1 protector of their [sag etd pd ri i ian bac village green, hard vy the ace O Historian. their forefathers, nad they pledged themselves to each other to combat manfuily lor thetr birthright inheritance of liberty! There they now stood on by side uader the provincial banber, With arms lu Refers to His Work for the their hunds, silent and fearless, willing to fight for Statement Wher privileges, sctapulous Rot fo begin owl Tru i" war, And as yet unsuspicious © ediate - a, Eaters ger. The ground ,0D which they trod was tie altar ol ireodom and they Were tO furnish Its vic- wu a ims. WasBINGTON, Apri! 16, 1875. Yue British van, hearing the drum and the temem bering the care with which George Ban- | alarm guns, alted to load; the remaining com- | di t 4 anies came up, And at had an bour velore sun- ae storian, collected material or “His bis | padies con’ ice purty ourried forward at douvie | tory of ‘no United States,” your correspondent | caso. uine, uidiost upon a run, Closely loliowed by @ale* 4¢ bis residence this morning to hear from | {he grenadiers. Pitoairn rode tu trout, and when 60 t volution. wituio five of six +ods 0} tue Winule men cried bun sae story of the beginning or Ld phen aa. | Ut, “Dirperse, ye Villuins! ye revels, uisperse | Mr. Sancroft is 8 man of the most pieasing lay’ down your arms! why don’t you lay down @ress \fe, ripened with rare schoolarsmip, 18 | your aruis and disperse?” ‘The main part o. cue least of | Countrymen stood motionless tu the rauks, wit- Glen DB eT hee a esses against aggression; too lew to resist, too ed 3 been the massing of 20,000 | iriveromy. At tuis Pitcalro discoarged a p the standard books of ali nations. The | anu with a loud voice cried, ‘Fire!’ ry 4 is elegant residence are adorned withthe | Was followed, first by @ 1eW guns, whico did no , and then by @ close and deadly die vargst pelatings and engravings, and one sees m | Gxecbuon: he tne sl | y c{ tne great historian the same taste In the disparity of numbers the Common was q @ held of murder, not o/ battle; Parker, taereiore, was Swsplayed im the mansion of the late | O cereu gis meu to disperse. ‘Then, wad not wil Sevator summer. A copy of the HERALD contain: | then, did a lew of them, On thelr own imptise, re- + e scord-Lexingtoa map had been caretully | turo the British fire. Jnese random shuts Ol fugi- ex tives or dymg men did nO harm, except that Pit . ain oy Mr. Bancroit, who expressed himself Cairns horse Was perhaps yrazea, and a private muck plessed with it and the article inconnec | oO; ine Tentn ligat lnfaviry Was touched sligutly iow ion Maving explained tne ooject of the | in the le y Jouas ng spomabdendly Alesse Rtainth: one oh | Lexington, had promised wuever to rap from ireterme to nis history of Lexington | gritisi tronys; and he kept wis Vow. & rd, jor in the two chapters oa tnat | Wound brought lim on iis knees. naving ve had included ail the material obtained | Giscuarged wis yuo, be wus preparing to loaa it agaio, wh as sound @ heart as ¢/sonal observation of the roads and con- er throbies ur ireedom was suilled by e cu with the survivors of the two engame- | Dei, and ne lay co the pust Wuica Le took “it was thirty-five y ago,” said Mr | Woruing’s arum bea, So jell Isaac Muzzey, and , wo died the aged Rovert Munroe, (he suuie Wo iD ‘, seated in ois lorary amid @ thousand | 1755 hau Leen un eusign at Louisburg. Jouatnan ues 0) Manuseript, “that | personally inspected Harringtou, Jr., Was struck iu rout Of bis own ‘ é house, On the oortp of the Common. His wife was = 48 leading row Boston to Lexington and | give winuow us be lel Wato vivod gusning At that time rauroads were hardly | jrom his brews: Ne rose im her sight, Lortered, lek Faker, ihe sirongest and best wrestler in 2 « d the highways over woich the British again, taen crawled C4 Ree i coe cant dwelling. Soe ran to Hin, Mrcoe. Were m about the same condition in | De Umslnne oot expired Ou thelr threshold, 164 joy Were seventy years belore taat period. | Culeo Harringtoa, Wu0 lad gone into tne meeting w @ f jouse [Or puwaer, Was shot as le came out, ‘ - Laaypiutg hat spel ents si gg Beuiuel Hadley and Joun Brown were pursued ® Go over the whole ground step by step, | aii Killed ater iuey had leit the green, Asubel a «<ingcon and Concord, in company with | porter, of Wouura, Who bad veeu ear prisoner } by (ue British on tue waren, eudeuvoring to ic t a veadger io Peghose bate pd ys | escape, wus shot Within « leW rods of the common, ee ae ee ee eee CORES Day came iu ali the beauty of Bb carly suring. m1 /G the memoravie deeds of that eventiul | The trees were budding; ti rasa growing Fanaly | ee @ 18 Lot room for doubt where the first | @ lull month belore ics time; the biuewird and the | bur wax ted for it was at Lexington, while the | TOO! gimudeuiny the genial sexson, abd caulug * ; a gton, @ | Jorth tue Deama OU! oe sun WhICD Ou Taal mornlog @roes were On their way to Concurd, It was at shoue with tue Wardth ul suger; but betas Doucur we f hu borror gathered uver tay iMuabitunts oi the be sehen petals Proven geo~-anagtias fpeacaial town, {uere oa the green lay 1D death “ ok, and It Was durng the retrest that | fhe yray-nsired uud tue young; the yradsy Deld 2 eouit Upon the British became general and was red ‘with the Moocent Ulsud OF thelr brethren co -oued, Bal asf said before, ali tnat 1 know | salu. ‘4 crying unto God lor vengeance irom tae Deer 4. Spon your inquiry is to the Chapters re- | Ore of the,meo of Lexingtou were killea; fer » Which coptain the result ofinvestiga- nine wounded—s quarter part of all who tiou © tne Most @voravie circumstances, In | #t00d in tw ou tue green, These are | village werces, Who Were more th, a aclon With the survivors I aid not ask Llood, proving by ner spirit tout tea juestions, but allowed each one to tell were @ & face divine. ; iney wave heir ives we sory in bwown Way. So the facts narrated viet perder pda ui @ssUrunce OF success In tne in count of the 191 of April were estab. migaty struggi¢ which (vey vegan. Their nawes lboeo by the personal expl: tions of actual par- | are veld in grate! remembrauc. the 9 mn the efair, and witn pleasure I will . ply thelr pr give jou ‘hut accvunt, It 18 as follows :"— ow y Heealess of his own danger Samuel Adams ex- i Claimed, “What @ giorious morning 18 this |’ jor Ge saw that bls country’s independence was bas LEXINGTON. teuing Oa, and, ike Colambus im the tempest, | Qxroacre> FROM BANCROFT’S “HISTURY OF THE | KDeW that the Sturm bure ulm the More swiiLy towurd the undiscuvered world. STATES," ESPECIALLY CORRECTED FCR THE . BY THE aCTHOR APRIL 19, 1775, aiternoon of the day ou wuich the Pro- ¥ Dyress of Massachusetts ad) urued, Cage x ight infantry aud grevudiers om duiy, rt tly prepared ab eXpeditivn to destroy ‘setores at Coucoru, lat the attempt The British troops drew up on the Vulage green, k reverul Week® beeu expected; @ strict | fired a voley, uzaued turive Ly way ol triump! « as kept; aod signals Were coucerted to | and, alter & Nult of less thay tuirty minutes, | 2 the first movement of troops jor tue | warched on ior Concord. Trere, in the morniug | ‘ y Samuel Adams anu Hancock, who hud | hours, children aad Women fed luv shelter to the | t Lexing: on lor Piladeipuia, received &@ = Liils anu the Woods, aud men Were nid.og What ssawe [rom Waites, abd ib Cousequeuce | Was leit of Canbon and mw iitee of Saiety removed & purt oF ta The winute compa: sormed on the and secreted the cannon. usual jatude, over Wuich tue congregaden Oo! the en of wore sergeanis in | LoW4, tut Léur u ceutury aud @ Dui, bad passed up ersed themselves through Cambridge | every day Of pubiic Worsnip; toe ireemen to | ° or west, to iniercept wil communication. aou lacey th | owing miyal toe grepudiers und light bot jess (hao $00 iD uum the their ttle seuate House. Near IL TO CONCORD AND BACK TO BOSTOM. APRIL 19, 1775, tue army at = =Bostoa, com- Wintorup, the latuer of Massaciusetta, had given ry the incompetence Lieuteusnt | counsel, sud Eilot, tue apostie uv! tne ingians, | smith, crossed io the boats of bad spoken Words of venleDIty alu Wise vort sulps oa (he ,oot vi Lae Commun | dom, ‘Tne people of Concord, o: Whom avout 4 aworidge. IMere toey received a day’s two handred appeared in arms on that day, were | 2 . and Beat Midn gut, ater Wauing ubpreveading wed, Content io their Bamility; | 5 et Marshes, taut are are LOW covered their evergy Was derived irom (heuw sense uf the t ly town, they toox the road by West | diviue poWer. Jus jovking to God ag their sov- Ca e to Concord, ereicu brought the luthers to ther pleasant vai il miss their @im,” said one of a party | ley, controled tae loyalty o: tue sone and has | * rvea tuelr t “Ww awe’) made the Geime Of Concord Veneravie \nruuguout * u Pere), mark. whe world. + cenDpon 4 was the answer, ihe Americans 1, as yet, recei only un- cued to Gage, Who IDwtautly airected certuiu rumors of the murl.ug’s events ut Lex- shoud be sullered to ieuve tue towd. ington. At the aight ol ure i the viduwe the im- % ren vad QO o'clock, degpateLed — paive seized tuem “to March into the town for its “ Jawes turousgh Koxbury to Lexingtou, Geience.’ But were they not subjects oF ine ar ed Pau Kevere to sét Of by way oi brite King? Had not the troops cume out in Vis OUrdie.ce Ww ecanoWlegged alilour ’ Was lupped only to engage a friend to raise resistance praciicable? Was ir favie’ By sted sigdals, aod five Mibutes Gelore tue who could it be authorized? No union wad veeu we Tecerved tue order \O prevent it two forued; UO independence pruclal.ue o war Wed Wi past Che somerse . the .usbandien and mechanics wue ‘ COaries Kiver. All was ull, stood On = the hillock concord Ine ship Was winding Wity (he young Mob just peerea wvove u Hive Low u couple v! lanterus in e North church the OU streamed — vesvair: were culled on t would act, and eir or peace, submission or they Guabted they must have ighvoring (OWus as just int could Toe otic meeting tut ‘Of their men, spoke @1@* Words Wit) Oe agulber Bou Went Jack to bejood Cbariestowu Neck Revere was toi places, Barr wuietel, O8 hutse- Joy tWo Bri ish office's on horsebac: back iD te reur, wave the orger to el Mounted, he turned sul ienly, advanee, Wut Lo. ee atiacked. The e Je uf theta 1Bto a clay poud, racapedirum culm ie.tures of |. buvia, Of Actom, oe t vy the rowd to Mediord. At that town ue cum’ changed; ive new ter, WoO Wut . e captam of lve minute Men and cou- pre ent, coWlu Hever alterware fud words eirong 4 roume wimost every Louse OB toe Way tu YuOUgh to Express, Low lis luce reduened at the om word of commana have DOL ® wan that is vps had Dot advanced far When the firing airad (0 go,” said Davis, looking at the mea of bs hd riugt @ of beiis announced tat tuew | Acton. and drawing bis sw rd, he cried, areu!’ o hwo been herg.ued belore |nem, Mis company, veg on tie ne Way 46 buck’ LO demand & reiniorcoment, wward the bridge, He fimeel! Lead, aad normiog ul the 19:4 Ol April. U tween the sive Major John Baturiek, o Concord, wita welve and one, the emsage from Warren haun, of Westiord. Leutenant colon Ava wd iduucock, Who at once di ott's Pesltweul, but OO this day # Volun expedition, Kevere, ie without coumaud aved by Samuel irescott, a « : y" irons COMGORU, rode lorward, cll d vy minute med Gud mite in doubie fie, | sOvUnte As they pussed wong, aru, ‘Tuey weut down tue Dilock, en: Wey Hel UPED @ party uf BriLISh OMcers, The uyrowd, Game LO ifs angie With :ve Inui B 1d vawes Were seized aud taken Duck ww | rowd, waU Lhere luried IbTo the causeway (nat ied 1 wiere Luey Were Felvdded; DUE dren | strum.t lO tue Oridge, The britivh vegan to inke ed uver a low stoue Wali Sud eloped Of | Up Lue pidUke: to prevent it toe Amer.caus quick. © @vea ter siep, At this the Brith Bred t wcout two in the morning, @;eal from | vne or two shoty Up the river; theo y Or the meeting Couse oruugut Mastiy | another, by which , and 4¢ LUHADI ALIS OL (he place—young aud | Jones | Browo — were L Vole ‘ re MuKE gov" ibe | ley lollowed, uta Isauc Davia e) Hosmer, Su) toc ToWn Webates, Along the | Lie Jitter & sun Of the deacon of th ton ehures, . Kwer-ou, ministe: fell dead. Tnre@ hours vewre Davie Rad vid his 4% Mie DOWderNOTN abd pOUEA WF abd Cidyed Jarewell. iat uiterduon he was Ver lis #howluer, Ly is sermous aud tu ner bedroom. His coun teuauce Waa littie altered and plewsuat tu a Qa GO huiluwed the uthusiem of tn. K foac ‘has held the defence ur their joer. The vodiés uf bwo others of wis Company Who Were a) Ui uely COuVenaBe Wii God. iis | #imib (lal day Were Drought also to ber house, und F; With AFGS Sti Guyibeued thelr sense uf | fue tures Were iolloWed Lo toe Village uraveyard 3 by @ ¢ ncours the neighbors frum tier arouag, layoroak (oO sunrise the summons | God wave ler length of days im tue jana Whien ui f Ouse fo tvuse through Aciou, | genervus sei-sevotion ueswled to iedeem, she | _inenseugers® aud ‘ne cai Of miuate | lived to sev ler couniry touon the Guill of Mexico fe read Wiacly the aurm How cnidrea i the cine, wad when it Wes grown great io | by te they Were secured out ui | DuMbers, Weuith und power, the Cuited States iu | pe the criva! tow Wives wiih beaving VYoUuKress paiu WOUOrs lo ler hi+ound's Martyrdom, b Mtav@iy weconded th Uusbuads; WoW wad vouloried her wuder tie double burden of | the stry meu, | ees #Uddenly to urm, without | s-rroW an. more thau ninety years. | ran ¥ cuudrelors, fo k instan: cow As (oe Britian fired, kimersou, WhO Wos lookio the rue. [be mighty chorus ul voices On irow His Chamber Winiuw ueur Moe uridge, wae | ir 1 scattered (aru Ruuses, aud y iat the fire should put be | @ of the liberty? wow my jor & toment; Butterick, your couutrys j@apine into \he air, aud at the same time )art- your Hd dwuguters, your wives tilly (uring round, ried wiv L oniwud#; FOBCue Ke Luuses vr the Guu of country’s ites, eyive, elhaw i LR your vera, The Mranchises ganoed sown from ase Hie.” oud'tue cry, “Fire, five, ure!’ ran irom i wl jeitore, Now wil i at wtun@; (Be butic iw lip ty ip. Two o! thé Britisa jell; several were . Wounded. in cwo minuces wil Was Wusued, ihe i gtos, im IT Muy have had 760 tuhimie Britiny verreaed iu diworder toward toele main fait oruoe vue parish, dnd Paving for ‘noir body: the Counrrymen Wer lat 1a possession of p (He Warned wud ierveut Jouue CiurK, tue OKiUge, This yg the world eves ped tle of Ro oot Inner Of pa Moe Siete pspers Conver’; move evebtiui than Agiuguurs ur Blea. fs ay yo b2 road oo ‘ler town records, hein. ip ember, i772 they fed inecructed Toe Americans had acted trom impulse, and toe, epreseutauve | Gemuud “H FuciVAl | B1OOd uetuniNued at What toey Kad dune. Suey » owing recress Of \ner ghevauces, wede bo pursuit aod aid 4 jarther Darl, @xceps | f @lr HOTICCt Should the peuwe De | thal One Wounded enna eu! "a your later ta spuraed the use of | os tO oe attempting to rine struck Oo the head | party Stationed there; bi hi in which he served proved during tue r eburch, | same moment fred; the regular was instantiy hay ammunition,” began to run rather than order. Tne officers vainly attempted to stop thir Oo! a week old, bat wa intant 10 ner avm@s s! toe their piaces. aud, though there Was hot wuca coucert O- di wau to lose ther terror head, bee alert © in trom’, it retreated twenty @iles. The the Britien in Kuled, wounded aod missing © 274, greacer than @ tne batue belore Qaevec, whe cer disavled by iatiy ae. a o | ington and Concord, The ve with ahatehet, The party Bar which might have been cut off, Was not molested. As the Sudbury company, commanded by the brave Nixon, passed near the South Bridge, Josian Haynes, (nen eighty years of age, deacon of the pudbury churen, urged attack on the British ivice was rejected oy ure, but {he company among the most alert 18 fellow soldiers as pre! of the day. vaders moved in order; as they At Orst tne drew near Lexington their flanking parties flagged; the wounded were scarce ubje to get ior~ ward, Inthe west of Lexington, as the British were rising Fiske’s hill, a sharp contest en- sued. It was at the eastern foot of the same Dill, tuat James Hayward, son of the deacon o! Acton countered @ regular, and both at the ed, James Hayward was mortally wounded. A little Jurther on tell the octogenarian Josian Hayne, of Sudbury, who nad kept e with the swiltest in the pursult, with arugged valor whi. fe bad not tempered, fhe British troops, “greatly exhausted and fa- tiguea, and ing expended almost IL that e fight. “They were ariven before the Americey. uv it two In the alt a. lige sheep.” At last, abog ae gt n4 alter they had hurried witn e the officers got tu the iront, and by menace o death, began to form them under a Very heavy fie. Atthat moment Lord Perey came tn sight eri th the first brigade, in all about twelve buncred Men, with two feld pieces, Insolent a8 usual, they marched out of Buston to the tune of “Yarw.ce Dooddle;” put they grew alarmed at finding every house on the road deserted. Tuey met not one erson to give them tidings of the eg 8 whom Soar were sent to rescue; and DOW that they aud made the junction they cuukl think only of scvety. While whe cannon kept the Americans at vay, Percy formed nis detachment into a square, e closibg the fugitives, who lay down for reat am the ground, “their tougues hanging out of their moutns like those of dogs after a c! From this time the Americans pad to com tend against veariy the whole of the British army in Boston, its vest troops, fully two-thirds of its Whole numoer, and more than that proportion of its strenuth, were now with Percy, Ani yet e | was gure to prove ruinous, The British must fy speedily and fleetly, or be overwheimed, Two Wagons sent out to them With supplier were Wwaylaid aud captured by Payson, the minaster or Chelsea. From iar and wide minute mon were gacueriug. ihe men o! Dedham, even tue of d men, Feceived their minister’s biessing and wext orth, in such numbers that scarcely one male between sixteen and seventy Was leit home. That morning William Prescott mustered bis regimemt, sna thougd Pepperell was so remote that he copid not in season lor the pursuit, he Dustened down with five companies of guards, Befere noon @ Messenger rove at full speed into Worcester, crying “To arms!” @ iresh horse was vrougut, aud the tidings went ou; While the minuge men of tbat tows, uiter joluing hurriedly on the Common lerveut prayer ivom their Minister Kept on the marcu tht they reached oe te ‘Aware Of bis perilous position, Pera, resst Dut hull ap hour, renewed the retreat. The ligh! joantry marchea in front, the grenadiers next, while the first brigade, *uich now lurrilshed tne brought uw) the rear, ‘They were exposed to a ff cb safle, 10 iront and from bebiod, The Americans, whe were good marksmen, would lie down comcesied to load their guns at one place wna dis- charge them at another, runing from trout to flank and from flank to rear. e@ and revenge and shame gt their Might lea the reg- ure Lo plunder boures by the Wayside, Lo destroy in Wantubuess singows and juraituye, vo set fre to barns and |.ouses. Beyond Lexington the troops we@e attacked by meu chiefly ir eX and tue lower towns. Toe fire irom the revels slackened, til ta@y approgo! West Cumbriige. where Joseph Warcren and Wil jam Heath, ovth of tue Committee ol Sate: latter @ provincial general ofieer, gave lor o mowent som. uttie app bee Of organization, and the fight grew sharper aud mere determined, Hee the company from Danvess, which made a breastwore of & pile Of shingls, lost eight mrn, caught betweea the enemy's flank guard and main body, Here, too, & on the hilleck in Concord was the moment when the measures of persecution and tyranny, devised under the Tadors and the Stuarts, vegan to re- cede, and the camse Which lad been lost in the mother couptry by Hampden and Cromw: tered upon that career of success which was to help the mother country itself to better institu. tions and teach the true art of colonization to the world, Yours, most truly, THE SHOT GOES GBORGE BANOROFT, ROUND THE WORLD. THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM. Couriers to all Parts of America. How the News is Received in London. THE OFFICIAL BRITISH REPORTS. The News in France, Holland and Great Britain. The news of Lexington battle 4! being sent by swift messenge! from colony to colony, creating everywhere the intensest excitement and sympathy. suMced to bring the news to Philadelphia, and on the 26th of April, 1775, the Pennsylvania Gazette, containing the Ir advices, ioreign and domestic, @ journal printed by Hall & Seliers, successors toBenjamin Frank- yin and Dr, Hall This namber of the Gazette, which is a folio of twelve columns, contained two postscripts, each printed in the form of a broad- side, ana ili of matter relating to the active movements in the colont (Extract of a letter from Boston, April 19, 1775] “1 have taken up my pen to inform you that last Vout eleven o'clock, 1,000 of the very best troops, in a very secret manner, board @ number of boats at the bottom of the and went up Cambridge River, landed, (In the meantime they stopped every person going over the neck or any ferry; how- ever, we soon ound @ way to get some men to From thence they marched euw # number of men exercising; they ordered them to disperse and immediately fired* on them, killed eight men op the spot, and then marched to Concord. This alarmed the country game down from the clouds. This news coming to town, tn+ Genes@! sent out anuther 1,000 men, with @ large train of artillery. troops at Concord had set fire to the Court House there, We then had our men collecred, so that an engagement immediately ensued, andthe King’s on horseback find the Jollowing in embarked on @iarm the country.) te Lexington, where they go that It seemed In the meantime those %, ; M Lier Aug} 18.1775: Paper Money “Issued by Massachusetts to Carry on the War. ball grazed tie har of Warren, whose heart veat 0 arms, su that he was ever in the place oi greate-t danger. The Britisa became more «nd more “exasperated,” aad bad ai themselves iv savage eity. in one house t found two ayed, sep buichered them bot without mercy, staov tuem, Drewking their +8 Gls aud destiny our tb bras. Hannan Auegis, wie 0: Deacon Josepa Adums, 01 Camoridge, iay io chiidbed witn & ba sorced to crawi with her G almost vaked to a corn ud, While the guldiers vet her house on fire, At oerened os & ence to gage atthe regu . Was Wantonly sho: as and kilieu, GU; tue Americi.ns (here were bever more theo 400 towetuer a: any One tule; DUL as sume rew tired of used Up their ammunition others ie, auparme! men, ao ehviune aud DO attack With Masses, Lue DUlwuit Uever Tagued. Beiow West Camordge the wilitia from Dor chester, Koxbury and Brookline came up. Of ‘these isuae Gardn(a@, Of the latter piace, vue on | Whom the cology :ested many hopes, ell avout & mile west of Marva si Colleve. The field pieces vee so thal tue Ameriaus the iUginves, Whose te Dressed Upon tie Pear &: treat could nor pecome been delayed a hal. hour longer, or aad Pickering, will lie 0.6 Tey Qoent frow salem and Murvie- wg to nave imtercepted them 3 tThonguc that, Work down as they were by Jatigue O20 exhausted of wumonitton, they must beve surrenderey, Bota litve alter. SUuse (le SUrVIVUs s escaped acrovs Charieslown Neck. The troops of Perey had murcbed thirty mi) Dhours. The ; erty Of Smith, in wx pours, had of the ships of war ands menace to burn the tows of Churies towl saved (hein (rom anpoyance daring thew rest on Buoker Ii and while they were terried across Charles Kiver.. On toms day forty-nine Americans were kilied, thirty-iour Wounded and Hve inimmog. The loss oF wouuded waay om. » Many more were Woile jell. amoag th Smith War nurt severe Ail the followbig night the ten of Massachusetts | streamed io root Scores 6) miles wround, old mea # Wel as YOUDg Ihey Mad scarce w semulance f artillery or Wurlike stores; avo powder, vor or- ion, Ror provisions; Lut there taey were, nds with Ore determined to rescue n “The hight preced- Jog the outrages at Lexington were were not fity peop.e in whole Guiony (hat ever expec ed auy viood woud be shed in the Contest;” t aight witer the King’s governor gud tue kin) army jound themseives closey beleaguerea in Boston. “rhe next news from England must be coneilia- tory, oF the connection Letween us ends,’ said Warren. “This mouth,’ Concord, iate chapiaia to the FP ovinetal as, chronicled in @ Siang ear almanac, “is remarkable jor ¢ events =o} thi prese! “From the 19 of April, 177 ark, ington, Oa ite first wnuiversary, “will ve dated tie liverty of the Amerioan work in reply to the invitation of the committ participa'e in the celeoration on Monday next, Mr. Bancrolt said he had addrossed the toliowing etter to Hon. B ltookwood Hour and ower mem- bers of the Cosmitiee oF Inviiations:— WASHINGTON, 1. U., April 9, 1876. My Dan Sthe—1 regret I canuot be present at the centenoias anniversary of the baities of Lex. ment of @ nations festival. the encounter was moc accidental, bur the resa of the principles ond character of the people, transmicted irom generation to genera- jon, It Was a8 much tae flowering oat of at succession Oo; ages as the Iliad of Homer or the Cologne Cathedral, 't aight have happened io other villages of New Enziaud, . ue it coaia nave | bappened oniy tu a New Bnglaod country town. Itiss@id tint when the Romauy invaded Gor Many an aged matron met them wi'h the com- Mand, “Go back! The word of commaud given ONE OF THE CONSEQUENCES. TWENTY FOUR SHIILAIN GS | troops retreated very ‘ast till | forced with the last 1,000 tnat the Genera sents but they did not stand long beiore the waole bouy | gave way and retreated very fast, and our meu | Kept up at their neels, loading and firing, till they if | €or to Chariestowo, where our Men thougat it not | Prodent to come any turtuer, fearing the ships of | to fise on Boston and Ohariestown. They bave gained » complete vic- tory, and, by the ves: information | cao get, most | Of the off ers and soldiers are cut off." LETTERS CF YANKEE PATRIOTS APIER LEXINGrON. ‘vom American soiaiers | tuey were rein- War would be ordered Many private jetters ADd others appear in the newspapers oO! the day, We give a few brie! sampies, exbiviting the spirit i | Were very much annoyed, and bad several mon Extract of a letter from Salem, April 24:— “By the same conveyance that this comes to you you will have un account of @ skirmish between a | se’s army aud tue provinciais ured that tue ili benavior regulars have determined many people to | that were vefore | | lukewarm. General Gage ts vy this time, | believe, Made sensible of our fixed resolution to defend our liberties; aud let we te.t you, the sense of the Pewple here is that weure sapporting the iverties of Engiand in contending ior the rights of Amer- part of General Ga, on the 19th ins! ecipitate, Had it | ee of liberty Anotuer letter from Roxbury, Mass., April 23, 1776, bas the f liowing “You lave po doubt been laformed of the affair of Wednesday, the 19th, Is it not truly amazing that such & body of regulars, s0 thoroughly ap- and put to fligit by & handiul of men, uadisclpliued peasants? We bave lost out /orty-one, ana but hot exceeding ten, wounded; they ha 900 Killed, wounded and missing. arm to our defence ‘rom ali quarters, 'y Organizing our troops, and shail soon have wa well constructed army in the feild of 30,000 What tolly could bave induced General Gage Ww acta partso fatal to Uritain’ it ts all over with them; their withered jaureis will plocked from the.r crows by the rapacious Bou uur couniry- As exhibiting the Intensity of teclia burned io all patriotic breasts the week after Lexington battle, tak the Committe Massacuusette:— the following | ty to the several towns in CAMBRIDGE, April 28, 1775, “GRNTLEMEN—TO¢ barbarous murders commit ted on our innocent brethren on Wednesday, the Mt absolutely necessary army wo de. and children from the butch. jubaman soidiery, Mneensed at the Obstucies they met with io their ira@ed at being repulsed enter, will, without doubt, tne frac opportunity in their power tu rav- tus devoted country with fire and sword, We cuajure you, therelore, vy wil that isu ‘Ali that is sacred, taat you give all assistance posal. Iniormiog the wrMy OOF ali is at Stak And devasation ar* the Certain consqeuences of {a iofluitely precious; an hour joat way Geluge your country in bicod and ental perperaai siuvery apon the iew of your pos. terity Who may survive tne carnage. entreat, a4 you Will answer it to your country, to | Your own consciences, and, above all, to God Him. sell, (het you Wil hasten aud encourage, by all possibie means, the enlistment of men to form the Od sond them jorWward to headquarters at 10th instant, have m: immediately fend our wiv delay; ¢Vvery mon mands, We are,” &e. The news of the Lexington battle was forty days, or nearly six weeks, in reaching Great Britain, As usual, the first iutelligence came from American and not British sources. In the London Chronicle ot May 30, 1775, appeared the frst intelligence in the form o! an extract from the Essex Gazette, printed at Salem, Maas, This contained the following :— “At Lexington, six miles below Concord, a com- pany of militia, of about 100 men, mustered near the meeting house; the troops came in sight of them just before sunrise, and, running within a few rods o/ them, the commanding officer accosted the militia in words to this effect: Upon which tne troops huzzaed and immediately one or two officers discharged their pistols, which were instantaneously jollowed by the fring of four or five soldiers, and then there seemed to be @ general discharge ‘rom the whole body. Eight of our men were Killed and nine wounded. In a few minutes alter this action the enemy renewed their march for Concord, at which place they destroyed several carriages, carriage wheels and about twenty barrels of flour, all belonging to the prov- ince. Here about 150 men going toward a bridge, of which the enemy were in possession. The latter fired, and killed two of our men, who thon re- turned the fre and obliged the enemy to retreat back to Lexington, where they met Lord Percy, with a large reinforcement and two pieces of can- non.” The article continues, giving the same account of the Lexington skirmish jound elsewhere, and concindes:— “The public most sincerely sympathize with the friends and relations of our deceased brethren, who giortously sacrificed their lives in fighting for the liberties of their country. By their noble, Intrepid conduct they have endeared their memories to the present generation, who will transmit their names to posterity witb the high- est honors. “We suppose a circumstantial account will be prepared and pubiished by authority. The above is the best.we have been able to obtain. We can only add that the town of Boston is now invested by & vast army of our brave countrymen, who have flown to our assistance from ali quarters.”” Tne London Chronicle iurtne: anuounces:— “Yesterday stock Jell 13¢ per cent, on sccount of the above news.’” é GENERAL GAGE’S OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE BATTLE, The London Gazette of June 10, 1775 (Number 11,568), was the first journal in London to an- mounce the oMcial news of the Batle of Lexing- ton. The Gazette being then, as now, the oficial organ of the British government, was favored With the earliest oMctal despatcue: the London Gazette or that day consisted of two leaves, or four pages, of about seven by twelve inch paper. At the head of the frat colama, in its largest type, appeared the following:— “WHITEHALL, Jane 10, 1775, “Lieutenant Nuno, of the Navy, arrived this morning at Lord Dartmouth’s office, and has brought letters from Generd! Gage, Lord Percy and Lieutenant Colonel Smith, containing the Jol lowing particulars of what passea on 19th Aprii last, between a detachment of the King’s troops, in the province of Massachusetts Buy, ana several parties of rebel provinciais, viz:— « General Gage, having received intel igence of @ large quantity of muitary stores veing collected at Concord, ior the avowed purpose of supplying @ body of troops to act itn opposition to His Mojesty’s government, detached on the 18th of April, at night, ibe @renadiers of nis army and the light infantry: under the command of Lieutenant Volone! Smith, of tne Tenth regiment, and Major Pircairne, of the Marines, with orders to destroy the said stores; and the next morning eight companies of the Fourth, tne same number of the Twenty-third and Forty-uinth, aod some marines marcued under the command of Lora Perey to sapport the other detaclment. Lieutenant Colonel Smitn fluding, alter he had advanced some miles on his margh, that the coun- try had been alarmed by the firing of guns acd despatcned six companies ot hight iniantry, in order to secure two bridges on difter. t roads beyond Coucord, who, upon their arrival at Lexington, ound a body of the country people drawn ap under arms on 4 green close to the road, and upood the King’s troops marehing up to them, 1 order to inquire the reason of their veing so assembled, they went of in great coniusioa, and several guos Were fired upon the King’s troops from bebiud @ stone Wall, and also from the jmeet- jag house and other Bouses, by which one man Was Wounded and Mujor Pitcairne’s borse shot in two places, in consequence of this attack by the revels the troops returned the fire and kihed several of them, after which the detachment marched on to Concord witnout any- thomg sortver huppeniog. where they effected the purpose for Which they were sen!, Naving knocked off the truuniogs Oo! three pieces of irom ordpance, DUrnt some Lew yuu carriages and @ great oum- ber of carriage wheels, and thrown into the river @ considerable quautity of flour, gunpowder, miuske: balls and other articiea, Wate this ser- vice Was peyiorming great numbers of the rebels assembied M wany parts, and a cousiderauie cody of them atrackeu the ight infun'ry posted at one of tne bridges, On Which um action ensued, and | | some iew were killed and wounded, “Ou tie retura of the troops irom Concord they kiled and wounded by the rebeis fring veuiud Walls, ditches, trees and ot ner ambushes, but the brigade unver the command of Lord Percy having jJoinet them at Lexington with two pieces of ean- hon, the revels were, for awhile, dispersed; but, @3 sou 44 (he troops resumed their march, tuey began again to fire pon them from behind stone walls aod houses, aud kept up io that manner @ seatteri bg fre curing te whole Of their march of Miteen miles, by Which means several) were killed apd wounded, and such was tse cruelty aud buroarity of the rebels tnut they scalped and cut of the ears of some Of the mounted men who tell into their wands, it is Lot Known what number of the revels were killed and wounded, but it Is supposed that the loss Was Very consideravie.’ “General Gare says that too moch praise caunot be given to Lord Percy tor wis remarkable acuvity during the whole way, and that Lieutenant Vol. ouel Smith and Major Piteawroe did everything that men coula Go, ae did also the officers in geu- i, and that the men benaved with their usual intrepidity.”” Thisis followed vy @ return of the rank aud file killed and wo unded, prisoners and missing on the 19th 0; April, 1775, Summing up 62 rank and file killed, 167 Wounded, 24 missing. Signed ho, | Gage.” RITISH PRIVATE SOLDIERS ON THE BATTLE. Many contemporary letters of British soldiers Were intercepted and jouud their way into priotin the moutus of April aud May, 1776. One oi these, Gated Boston, April 8, 1776, has the foliowing, fo, is tolerably fulio! romanc- “Tue jaying of the tax on the New England peo ple caused us to be ordered for Boston, where we remained in peace with the inhabitants til on tie night Of tue 1801 Of April. Twenty-one companies Of grenadiers vod ught iniantry were ordered into the country about e.ghteen miles, where, be tween jour and dve o'clock in the morning, we met au incredible Lumver of people o! the coun- uy in Grmg against us. Colonel Smita, of the Tenth regiment, orvered us to rush on them with our bayonets fixed, at which time some of the peasants fred on us, and, our men reiuroing the re, the engayement oegun. “They did not Hat as like a regular army, only ike savages—veuiad wees and stone wails aud out of the Woods und blouses, Woere, In the lat- ter, We Killed numoers of them, os Weilas in the Woods and fields, hese people are very numer U8 @Od full a8 bad us (Le Indians for sealping and of and those they wet alive that are wounded and can- | mot yet off the ground.” cutting the dead men's ears aad Dos Another soldier's letter reads as follows :—~ Boston, April 28, 1776, Tue Grenadiors and Light ioi@uiry marohed jor ‘Disperse, you damn you; throw down your arms and Tue issue of Cambridge, with that expedition, which the vast importance aud instant urgency of the affair de- Concord, where were powder and ball, arms, and cannon mounted on carriages; but before We could destroy them all we were fired en by the coun- try people, who, not being brougat up in our mille tary Way, a8 ourselves, We were surrounded ale ways inthe woous, Tue firing was very hot on botn sides, About two in the afternoon the Sece ond brigade came up, which were four regiments and part of the artillery, which were of no use to ug, as the enemy were In the woods; and when we found they fired irom the houses we set them om fire, and they ran to the woous like devils. The following is the letter of another of these soldiers :— Boston, April 80, 1775. DEAR PARENTS—Be/ore this reuches you, youmay hear that our regiment has been engaged with the provincials, As soon as we came up we fired the cannon, which brought them trom behind the trees, for we did not fight as you did in Germany, 8 We could ot see above ten in a body, for they were bebind trees and walls, ana fired at us and then loaded om their beilies, ‘The shot few thick, I got a wounded man’s gun, and killed two of them,/as am sure of, We have been busy in Jortifying tle town ever since we were en. gaved, and in a lew days we expect a gooa many more troops from Engiand, and then we shall surely burn the whole country before us if they don’t submit, which don’t imagine they will do, for whey are an obstinate set ol! people, ‘ell Bill af ne comes to Boston le may have a wife in every house he comes to, lor the women are left at home while the men go to fight tne goldiers, We vex the Americans very much by cutting down ther lberty poles and alarm posts, The journals of London continued to print dribe lets of intelligence about the Lexington skirmish for weeks. The afMldavits of John Hoar, John Adams and others, of Middlesex counry, setting forth the wanton and unprovoked conduct of the King’s troops at Concord, were printed at iull length in the London press, and created much excitement, Intelligence of the first bloodshed in Americain the Kevolutionary War reached France and Hol land at about the s#me time—namely, the first week in June, 1775, The Gazette de Leyde, or Now velle Extraordinaires du Mardi, 6 Juin, 1775, con. tained the iollowing, which we give in transla ton — “We learn from London that hostilities have at last commenced in New Engiand, where there nas been blooashed on both sid ‘The circumstances which have been made public are too mach cons Tused to be preseated to our readers, who like pree cision, Moreover, the goveroment, which does not itself appear to be exactly advised of what passed on that occasion, has desired that the pub Me be requested in our periodical papers to sue pend tis jadgment upon this event uottl au‘henne Particulars can be known.” The Leyden Gazette proceeds to Oil bali a colama with the Ars¢ London account of the action under General Gage, It also quotes another account declaring that the retreat of the Bririsu treopa Was made in great precipitation because the Pro vincials pursucd them and tired upon them inces. santly untll they reached Bostoo, where they came under the protection of the ship-of-war Somerset, carrying six!y-four guns. The Leyden Gazette of June 18, 1775, prints a lew ter ‘rom Boston of April 30, in which the followlug decisive language vecurs:— “Toe jot of Engiish-America is cast. and in the extremily at wich «fulrs have at last arrived there appears to be no alternative renaming to 1s butto perish or to piace itself iu a position io almost entire independence of tie morner countre, Whatever may be te event, it ia certaiu tvat we are on the eve of seeing rivers of 01004 flow and citizens deriving their origin from tne seme coune try, Subjects of the same king, bent on their mu. taal destruction,”? The next rssue of the Leyden Gazette, June 16, 1775, aunounced inat the whole Continent of America was animated with an ine-cdi le apd that the Provincials were very numerous, re- solved to ve.end thett righis ad liberties atevery cost, and were abundantly provided with arme aMmiunit.on, provisions and all necessaries gen eraliv. Worcester, 4 Hannah Brad sh, of that pi of Carbridge, called Menotomy, and caugiter of Timotny Patne, of Worcester, in tue county of Worcescer, E quire, of lawfal age, testifies aud says tout u five o'clock on Wednesday lust, afternoon, 0 tng In her bedchamber with ber injant cid, avout el@ht dave old, she was surprised by the fring o the King’s troops and our people, on their revure (rom Concord; she being weak and unaoie to go vut ot | ber (house, im order to secure herseil and family, they all retired into the in the | back part of the house; she svon jound the house surrounded with the King’s troops; that upon ovservation imude, at Jeast sev enty bullets were shot into the front part of tne house; severul bullets lodzed to the kitchen where she was, aud one p°ssed throuzh easy chair the had Just gone from; tue dour of the iront part Of the house was broken open; she did not see amy soldiers in the house, but usposed, vy the they Were in the front; alter tue troops had of she missed the following things, whee | ane verily Lelieves were taken oat o ths house by | the King’s troops, viz.:—Une rich brocaue gown, called a negligée; one lut-string wown one white quilt, one pair of brocade shoes, thr nits, erga white aprons, three caps, one case of ivory Kuives and forks, ond several other small articies, HAN PROVINGS OF TUR SsACHUSEITS WORCESTER, 88., AvTh Mrs. Hannay Bradish, the abov maketh oath veiore us, the subscribers, teo of Ta Majest.’s Jus ives of the Peace lor the county ot Worcester, and of the qavrum, that tue above ae postion, according to ber best recoliecitov. Is the truth. Wh.ch deposition ts tukea in perp.tuam ret memoriam. THOMAS SIE TIMOTHY MEDPoRD, April .5, 1, Euward Thornton Gould, of itis Majesty’, Own regiment of foot, vetng of lawrul age, vo testy @nd deciare that, ou the eveulug ot 18th Ins’, unger the orders 4; General Gage, 1 emoarked with the lignt infautry and gremay ¢ line, commanded by Colonel Sint h, and Janded on the marshes of Cambridge, nom whence we pro- | ceedeu to Lexington; on our arrival at that piace we saw a body vi provingial troups, armed to the number of about sixty or seventy men; on our approach they dispersed, aud soon aster fring began; but which party fred first I cannotexa tiy #ay, as OUF Troops rushed on saouting and huzza ing previous to the firing, which was con- Unued by our troops so jong a any oF the provincials were to be o, krom thence We marched to Concord, Un @ hil near the en trauce of the town we saw another body ot Pro. vinciais assembled: The light iniaatry com. panies were ordered up the pili to disperse toom, On our approach they retreated tuwaru Concord, The grenadiers continued the road under the bili toward the town, Six companic: of ligut iolaotry were ordered down to take postession of tae bridge Which the Proviacials rewvated over, Tha company | commanded was ove. Taree com- panies of the above detachment wen’ lorw.ris about two wiles, Ia the meantime tie provincial troops returned to (ue HUMover Of ALOUE 40) OF 409, We drew up on the Concord sive of ‘he bridge, The Provinciais came down apon us, Hpon whieca we engaged and toe drstiire. fos was tne first engagement alterjrne one at Lexington; a continue! fring trom doth parties lasted twrougn tne whoie day; i myself was Woundeu at ine at tack of toe bridge, and am now treaced with the greatest humanity, and tsken all Lossivle care'ut by ‘he Provincials of Medford. “EUWARD [LHORNION GOULD, “Laeatenant, King’s Own regiment.” PROVINCE OF Midd.esex count), April 26, MaSSAciUSETTs Bay. Ist. Lieutenant Thornton Gould, aforenamed, pet. Aonally Made onth to the truth of the jo egong jclaration by Him subscribed Lefuro ua, THAD. MASSON, JOSIAL JOUNSON, SIMON TUPI, e for the county aoresaid, Justices of the P quorurn unus.