"This is one of four cannons which constituted the whole train of field artillery possessed by the British colonies of North America at the commencement of the war, on the 19th of April, 1775. This cannon and its fellow, belonging to a number of citizens of Boston, were used in many engagements during the war. The other two, the property of the government of Massachusetts, were taken by the enemy. "By order of the United States in Congress assembled, May 19th, 1788." [11] When I visited Boston, in 1848, it was estimated that two hundred and thirty trains of cars went daily over the roads to and from Boston, and that more than six millions of passengers were conveyed in them during the preceding year. [12] Job, xxxix. 24, 25. [13] This is a picture of Chantrey's statue, which is made of Italian marble, and cost fifteen thousand dollars. [14] On some old maps of Boston it is called _Corpse Hill_, the name supposed to have been derived from the circumstance of a burying-ground being there. [15] The following is the inscription upon the slate tablet: "The Reverend Doctors Increase, Cotton, and Samuel Mather were interred in this vault. INCREASE died August 27, 1723, Æ. 84. COTTON " Feb. 13, 1727, " 65. SAMUEL " Jan. 27, 1785, " 79." [16] This society was incorporated in February, 1794. The avowed object of its organization is to collect, preserve, and communicate materials for a complete history of this country, and an account of all valuable efforts of human industry and ingenuity from the beginning of its settlement. Between twenty and thirty octavo volumes of its "Collections" have been published. [From Dickens's Household Words.] FATE DAYS AND OTHER POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. It is a difficult puzzle to reconcile the existence of certain superstitions that continue to have wide influence with the enlightenment of the nineteenth century. When we have read glowing paragraphs about the wonderful progress accomplished by the present generation; when we have regarded the giant machinery in operation for the culture of the people--moved, in great part, by the collective power of individual charity; when we have examined the stupendous results of human genius and ingenuity which are now laid bare to the lowliest in the realm; we turn back, it must be confessed, with a mournful despondency, to mark the debasing influence of the old superstitions which have survived to the present time.