the coun. try, and the sleeping echoes of the mountains are awakened by the shrill whistle of the steam engine and now the "pioneer settlement'' has become ono of the most valuable and desirable " homesteads " iu New England. This home of his childhood, among his native hills, Daniel Webster has visited each successive year; and for many years past, several times each season, he eagerly seeks it during the recesses of Ins public and professional labors. No spotonearlh is as dear to him us this. He hits preserved, iinnroved and cnluncd it with studious cure and sohctludo. Here are the Melds his own hands aided in " clearing "here tho venerable elms which, when a boy, he planted and here the rivers ami urooKs, lakes anaponds, hills and mountains, with which arc associated a thousand joyous incidents of his youth here also urn the graves of Ins father and mother, nud brothers and sisters, all of whom departed this lite before him. During the past summer, 1 spent several days at this delightful locality, and from personal observations, from conversations with the " oldest inhabitants," and from other sources, I obtained much information, and heard numerous pleasing incidents, touching the birth place and history of Daniel Webster. bbeneziT Webster, the father, was born in King ston, Rockingham county, New Hampshire, in 17:i!, and died al Salisbury (now Franklin) April U'4t ItiOG. Lzekiei aim unmet were the only sons ol a second uiarnaffo : the mother was Abigail Eastman, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, and her