PAGE Marietta, Ohio, 1788-1888. Foundation of Civil Government Beyond the Ohio River. ILLUSTRATIONS.-Mound Square-Marietta's Historic Park-Outline of the Northwest Territory- Indian Tribes in Prehistoric Times. Their Location and Movements. CYRUS THOMAS, Ph.D. The Constitution and the Ordinance of 1787. Their Relation to Education. 193 202 204 219 224 235 240 245 Notes. George Washington as a Dancer-Rev. George Robert Gleig-Ancient Manuscripts Queries. Slavery in New Hampshire-The Huguenots-Ships and Troops at Beginning of the Revolution. 247 249 Replies. Elizabeth Canning-The Oldest Statue in the World-Common Schools-Education in England. 250 Historic and Social Jottings. Book Notices. The British Invasion from the North, with the Journal of Lieutenant William Advertisements-Books, Schools, etc., 1 to 8-Periodicals and Miscellaneous, 9 to 18. 251 BINDING THE magazine of amerICAN HISTORY.-We can furnish Covers for Binding in dark green levant cloth, for 50 cents; sent by mail, postpaid. Back numbers exchanged, if in good condition, for bound volume in cloth (as above), $1.00; in half Turkey Morocco for $2.00-subscribers paying charges both ways. TERMS:-85,00 a year, in advance; 50 cents a number. Postmasters receive subscriptions. Communications should be addressed to THE MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY, 30 Paternoster Row, LONDON, ENGLAND. Entered at New York Post Office as Second Class matter. 743 Broadway, New York City. Copyright, 1888, by Historical Publication Co. FE EW American cities, large or small, have ever come so prominently before the intelligent public of the country within a twelvemonth, or commanded more universal consideration than Marietta, Ohio. The reason for all this is obvious to the student, but to the general reader it is still something of a conundrum. The taste for historic research which has been stimulated, and the fresh interest awakened in neglected mines of historic lore, have, however, awakened a healthful spirit of inquiry in the American brain. The career of an old college town is usually picturesque and always interesting. But the circumstances attending the origin, settlement, and century's progress of Marietta, irrespective of the charms of classical associations, have been such that it seems as if old Rome herself never emerged from a more fascinating crucible of fact, romance, and tradition. The beginnings of this beautiful town were the beginnings of Ohio and of the great Northwest. It has often and appropriately been styled the "gateway" to the vast unexplored regions beyond. The causes and sources of its birth and being, the moral, religious, and intellectual character of those who first planted their homes upon its soil, and its development in the midst of Indian wars and seasons of great distress, form a study which has of late commanded closest attention from many of the ablest and ripest scholars in the land. The whole story is of national significance. At the recent centennial celebration in Marietta, in which commercial attractions had no part whatever, the rare phenomenon was witnessed of continuous public exercises of a strictly historic and literary character for five successive days, and that without any perceptible weariness or diminution in the enthusiastic audiences. These meetings were held in a temporary structure built for the occasion, which accommodated with comfortable seats some four or five VOL. XX.-No. 3.-12 |