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��A BIT OF NEWSPAPER HISTORY.

��Boston, served in both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature and was elected Lieutenant Governor of that State. Edmund Burke, whose trench- ant pen, won for the paper and himself an extended reputation in a very short time, was six years a member of Con- gress and subsequently Commissioner of Patents, under the administration of President Polk. Afterwards he was for a time editor of the Washington Union. As a ready and vigorous political writer he has had few if any equals — certain- ly no superiors in the country. Of all those engaged in the management of the paper, previous to the late proprie- tors, Mr. Burke alone survives.

Messrs. Carleton and Harvey went from the town of Sutton to Newport, when they became apprentices in the Spectator office. Mr. Carleton was a native of Bucksport, Me., born in Nov. 1 813, but had removed to Sutton, when about ten years of age, where Mr. Har- vey was born in Jan., 18 15. The two are cousins, their mothers being sisters, whose maiden name was Greeley — half cousins of the illustrious journalist, Horace Greeley. The late Hon. Matthew Harvey of Concord, promi- nent in the history and politics of the State, and Jonathan Harvey of Sutton, also a member of Congress, were un- cles of Mr. Harvey. Hon. George A. Pillsbury, formerly Mayor of Concord,

��now of Minneapolis, Minn., is a broth- er-in-law of Mr. Carleton, having mar- ried his sister.

Under their protracted management, the Argus and Spectator well main- tained its reputation as a reliable ex- ponent and advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, while, individ- ually, each has held prominent and in- fluential positions in the community of which they are now respected mem- bers. Mr. Carleton was Register of Deeds for the county of Sullivan in 1844 and 1845, and was appointed Register of Probate in 1854, being re- moved the following year upon the ac- cession of the opposite party to power. He was also a member of the Legisla- ture from Newport in 1853. Mr. Har- vey held the office of Register of Deeds for five years, from 1846 to 185 1.

The period covered by their news- paper proprietorship has been, indeed, a long and eventful one, witnessing great changes in national and state history. At its commencement there was not a railroad line in the state, and the tele- graph was unknown. Of the. more than fifty weekly newspapers now pub- lished in New Hampshire, not more than eight or ten have a history cover- ing this period, and of these not a sin- gle one remains in the hands which then controled it.

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