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f on the American side, being that located be- 

 yecn Iwo rivers running into the lake, eiiihrac- 

 9 an area of acres, [irobalily nearly as large as 

 le |ire»ent limits within the whole State of New 

 (ain|ishire. We have seen this deed, executed 

 I due form, with the Nvaiiipnm of the chiefs and 

 le signatm-es by marks attached. It constitutes 

 'lint its present owner considers an equitable, i( 

 it a legal claim of u fee to the title of the land, 

 ^e believe the deed and other ilocuments are 

 1 file in theoffii-e ol the Clerk of the Senate of 

 e Uniieil States. The conveyance took place 

 rfore the proclamation in 17(33 of the King of 

 reat ISritaiM,lordbiding the purchase of lands of 

 e Indians. We know not wiiat is the inten- 

 in of the owners of the deed, who have paid 

 jgers' heir a valuable consideration for the 

 ttperty which it conveys. That deed de- 

 Whes the copper rock, as then iu existence, a 

 It of w Inch his been since conveyed from its 

 nation to Washington city, where it is now to 

 seen at the capitol. iMore than a hundred 

 irs has this copper region been known to the 

 litus: Mhj. llugers visited it nearly ninety 

 irs ago. It is not wonderful at all, that liam- 

 ■rs and wedges, which have long laid there, 

 ijuld now be discovered. 



Death of a Clcrgvniuu. 



Por two years prior to December 1846, the 

 sk of the small church of our worship in Con- 

 id had been supplied by ihe Kev. Mr. IJrcwer, 

 ■onng genllenian of rare talents and accom- 

 shments, gracing his sacred calling, who 

 iimeiiced here the work of the Christian inin- 

 ■y on the small* pittance that u very humble, 

 jliirusivc society of ejiiscopalians could strain 

 ir means to (urnish. Willi new family en- 

 ■einents, Mr. Urewer could not afford to re- 

 in w iih us, and went to supply a congiegalion 

 belter ability to give him such a living as his 

 h Indents deserved. Keinriiing from three 

 nibs residence at the South last March, we 

 nd the same desk snpplfed by another gentle- 

 II, whose ministrations up to the first week in 

 I cember 1847, we have as constantly attended 

 1 fluctuating, feeble health would admit. A 

 1 itleman some years the senior of Mr. 15rewcr, 

 ' li a slight iinpediincnt iu speaking, we did 

 ' expect that his successor would fill his place 

 Ihe critical anticipations of the young of his 

 lience, who, even in Christian worship, regard 

 nuer as Well as matter. Rev. Thomas Lfavek 

 le to us under these disadvantages; and U|) 

 he time of our return, his apparent la.vity of 

 hiHiasm and animation had eli(;ited as yet no 

 >iig commendations, lie was burn of a family 

 he episcopal worship in England ; but, accord- 

 to (Hir best inforniatinn, he secured bis colle- 

 e education iiniler restricted iiieaiis at a I5ap- 

 disseiitiiig College near London, studied tile- 

 ry, and afier marriage became it missionary 

 iie B.diama Islands of the West Indies. — 

 , ins of support huviiig there failed, he sailed 

 few Vork, and was afterwards settled in the 

 list ministry at Newport, R. I., where he con- 

 fd about Cive years. In the course of that 

 , retiiriiiiig to ihe atlacliuii:nts of cliildhooil, 

 ominenced the study rcipiisile to i)iialify liini 

 niini.-ler of the I'loiesiaiit Episcupal church, 

 :li be diligently pursued for about ayear and 

 If At this time our vacancy happening, he 

 ! lo Concord as a (•andidatc, and was soon 

 ined to ihe order of dracnit, and iu a linv 

 ihs afterwards, pa.ssing u good examinalioii 

 visit to Clarenioiit, he wn« ndvanrrd li> 



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the higher order of the priesthood in the episco- 

 pal church by Bishop Chase. We returned to bis 

 ministry, and while listening lo his preaching, 

 grew more and more interesled in ihe highly intel- 

 lectual coloring which he brought to bis subjects. 

 Mis disi'ourses, even his extemporaneous efforts, 

 opened to us a theology whose adaptation to liu- 

 tnan life, to men and its affairs, showed off the 

 minister as not only a mafi of great purity lint 

 of uncoinnion |;rofiindity of tbonglit. These 

 new illustrations of scripture amf of the Christ- 

 ian's principles and practice, we set down iu 

 part to the different insiriiclious and studies iu 

 the institutions and country of the preacher's 

 education. For three-fourths of a year we bad 

 sat under Mr. Leaver's ministry ; but circum- 

 stances had been such we would only say that 

 as yet out of the pulpit we knew very little of 

 the man. Our interest in him was enlivened 

 and increased in the month of April by the ap- 

 pearance at church, with five cherub beauties, 

 the eldest as seems not ten, and the youngest not 

 three years old, of the wife of the clergyman. — 

 The intelligent, bright eyes of the little group, 

 all so ne;ir of a size, well set off the mother, tall 

 and in the plain dress that is common to conn- 

 try English ladies. Mrs. L. is understood to lie 

 of Welch descent, hardly less remarkable in 

 her sphere than her husband in his: tlie wife ife 

 said to be two years older than the husband, and 

 as a matter of attachment waited for him full 

 three years while lie was able to com|ilete his 

 education. This laily with this interesting little 

 group, it will wring ihe heart to say, is left with- 

 out the means of common support in a land of 

 strangers, where she finds not the most distant 

 blood relative. Thomas Leaver, the man of 

 purest heart and life, the man of the hishest or- 

 der of intellect, the man too deep in his devo- 

 tion to heaven to long remain on earth, all that is 

 mortal of bim, lies low in the grave! 



Mr. Leaver, in form and in the appearance of 

 health, seemed to be Imt the model for admira- 

 tion, as he was in the manners and miiul of the 

 perfect geullpman. Up to the age of thirty-three 

 years lie had scarcely known what it was to be 

 sick. On the first sabbath of December he com- 

 pleted the year of his first engagement as an 

 episcopal clergyman: it was the day of com- 

 munion of the few members of St. Paul's cliuich, 

 composed more of Tomales than males. .At the 

 close of the communion service, Mrs. Leaver, 

 sympalhi'/.ing wiih another female whose hus- 

 band hail been more out of health than lieis, said 

 — "Our husbands both looked very pale in church 

 today. Do you know that I had a dream last 

 night which has given me ^reat distress: I 

 dreamed that my ilear husband was dead, and 

 lay in the house a corpse." On inquiring we 

 found that Mr. T^. had complained of illness for 

 several days, and had taken medicine as a thing 

 entirely unusual ; nnd the alarm for Ihi.s might 

 have induced the dream. Hut the afternoon dis- 

 course of that day seems to have been still more 

 striking than the dream, if we do not believe 

 that Mr. L. already entertained a |ireinoiiitory 

 seiilimeut that the piiins he had felt would be l;i- 

 tal. A iiH.st beautiful, lliough hastily drawn np 

 (and as Mrs. L. now says, not at all satisfying Ihe 

 iiuihor, from the depression of sickness he felt 

 while vvriling ii,) discoiiise was preached from 

 the text, — "It is linished." This discourse fin- 

 ished the worldly work of one of the most ox- 

 celleiit and amiabli: of llio earth. Joining in 

 iho beaiiliful hymn, peculiarly app[ical)le lo the 

 death and sufferings of tlic Saviour, wc could nol 



tell why the eyes became a flood of waters ere 



the following first verse had l)een gone Ihrougli 

 by the choir, at the close of that afternooon ser- 

 vice : 



' 'Tia finished j so the Saviour cried, 

 And meekly hewed Itis head and died : 

 *Tis finished ; yes, the worlt is done, 

 The battle fought, the victory wo.t." 



Mr. Leaver was so much exhausted with that 

 day's service in the chnrch, as to be unable to 

 take part in the evening service before the Con- 

 cord Female Benevolent Society at the Unitari- 

 an church the same evening: he went abroad 

 one evening duiiiig the week ; soon after he took 

 his room and his bed, where for about two 

 weeks his case became one of general inquiry 

 and sympathy in this village until be breathed 

 his last. The pattern of piety and resignation 

 upon his death bed, marking as near the ' perfect 

 and uprignl' as man in bis humanity can exhibit, 

 carried out as a high example the brighter mor- 

 tal side of the being destined to immortality. 



Near the time of the opening funeral service 

 at St. Paul's Church on Tuesday afternoon, 

 Dec. 28, when the Rev. Mr. Edson of Lowell 

 and Rev. Mr. Moore of Manchester, with, we be- 

 lieve, all the clergymen of all denominations in 

 tov\'n, and a more numerous assemblage tli;in 

 could be seated in the chnrch, were in allend- 

 ancp. Bishop Chase arrived from Claremont, 

 and added, unexpectedly, to the interest of the 

 occasion by a well written and well read dis- 

 course, concluding which he paid n most beauti- 

 ful tribute lo the life and virtues, the christian 

 humility and the christian ability of the de- 

 ceased, of whom it may emphatically be said, 

 that, in one denomination as iu all, he was 



'* By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.''* 



Death of a Senator. 



The day after the death of the Rev. Mr. Leaver 

 suddenly died at Wasbiiifflon city, Jon.\ Faik- 

 FiKLD, late Governor of Maine, and at the time 

 of his decease a Senator iu Congress. When 

 the editor of the Visitor left the Senate to lake 

 the office of Gnveiiior of New llamps'iire, Mr. 

 Fairfield was of the House of Representatives of 

 Congress. This genlleman, aa he has mentioned 

 to us, was a sailor before the mast, then very 

 young, during the war of 1812 with Great Bri- 

 lain: rising to the highest office but one in this 

 government, that of a Senator to the L'nited 

 States, Mr. F. was very properly, the Cliair- 

 ninii of the Committee of Naval Affairs of the 

 Senate. 'l\\o years ago while at Washington, 

 we saw Gov. Fairfield in fine health, and ac- 

 tivity cuntrasling with that weakness and enia- 

 cisalion which iben induced the belief of our 

 friends that wc could not return alive. The 

 fore part of the siiccecdiug winter of 1817 we 

 saiv the Maine Senator liimsell', pale though not 

 emaciated, but crippled and obliged to walk 

 with a cane. He had an uirection which was 

 called dropsy of the knee; but towards sfu-ing 

 his countenance and health became so improved 

 as not to take him out of bis seat. Iiii)iiiring of 

 a friend ll'oin Saco, we foiiiid the iiilirmiiy had 

 relurueil upon him before he left iu November; 

 we are not of course s>o much surprised at his 

 suilden death, as others might have been. It is 

 thought that the operation upon him nnd llio 

 medicine ailmiiiislercd to sustain him under it, 

 might have caused his death : tbes,' probably 

 were the immediate cause; but we are of those 

 who believe that, with the disease which was 

 upon him, he could noi have survived many 



