pril, 1775, when the
undisciplined militia at Concord put the red-coats to flight and
forced them to retire to their intrenchments at Boston, onward to
the surrender of Cornwallis to Washington.... We are credibly
informed that one of the chief objects of Captain Glazier's journey
is to make observations and collect material for another book,
which will no doubt be a very interesting one to read, and will add
still greater honors to one who, though still a young man, has
already acquired an enviable reputation as an author. After a very
cordial shake of the hand from some comrades and citizens, the
captain left the Central Hotel on his fine black horse, 'Paul
Revere,' which has brought him safely thus far from Boston since
the ninth of May, and which he proposes to ride to the Golden Gate
by the first of December next."

July third found Captain Glazier at Ashtabula, Ohio. The people
everywhere, during his ride from Girard, were engaged in preparations
for the celebration on the following day of the glorious Centennial
Fourth. It was his intention to have lectured at Ashtabula, but he was
counselled not to do so, as almost every man and woman in the place was
upon some committee preparing for the next day's festivities, and he
would consequently get but a scant audience. He therefore concluded not
to deliver his lecture here, but to push forward on his journey.

Under date July fourth, he writes:

"Mounted 'Paul' at nine o'clock this morning in front of the Fisk
House, Ashtabula. Thousands upon thousands of country people were
pouring into the town as I rode out. The booming of cannon, blowing
of engine whistles, ringing of bells, and the discharge of
fire-arms of every variety and calibre, welcomed the dawn of the
One Hundredth anniversary of American Independence."

Willard Glazier suffered no occasion to pass that presented a chance of
picking up useful information on topics connected with the localities he
rode through--their population, industries, features of the country,
prominent men, etc., his capacity for absorbing such knowledge being
large, and the intention of utilizing it in the interest of the public
having been his chief motive in undertaking the adventurous journey. The
large amount of information thus collected has been reduced to system,
and will, we trust, be shortly in the hands of the publisher.

Cle