OF THE DAYS THAT ARE PAST.
Salem, the Part she took in the Revolution.-Stephen Cleveland.— Commercial Activity Succeeding the Revolution, and its Effect on the Character of the Community.
THE names of many of the cities and towns of the old world are associated in the mind with conceptions of character almost as vivid as those which attach to in
We think of some as centres of intellectual or artistic culture. Others are invested with an odor of sanctity, or call to mind visions of decayed grandeur, or an undefined sense of weird and ghostly superstitions. A sort of moral atmosphere seems to hang over them, which imparts its hue to every object or incident pertaining to them. Such associations are naturally less frequent and less palpable with us, and yet we have many towns which have attained such reputation for