PREFACE.

WITH this, the first number of our third volume, commences the second year of the HESPERIAN; and it is with some pride and not a little pleasure we state, that the general condition of the work is flourishing, and betokens length of days and increased usefulness of labor. Though we can boast nothing in the way of moneymaking, the support already extended to the work is sufficient to defray the expenses of its publication; and as its circulation has increased steadily from the commencement, we think we can safely assure the public, that it is established upon a basis which nothing, but a want of punctuality on the part of our subscribers, can at present affect. Without this punctuality, we must suffer sundry embarrassments in our enterprise, and perhaps in the end be prostrated; but with it, we have nothing to fear, and shall exert all our energies to make the HESPERIAN just such a work as the literary and social interests of this section of the Union require. We aim to inform, more than to amuse; and to that portion of the community who prize intelligence above pleasure, more than to those who are in constant search after the gilded baubles of Fancy, do we look for countenance and support.

From this whole broad West, we expect occasionally to draw themes, arguments, and illustrations; but for the principal and especial field of our labors, we claim only the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. By these four noble young commonwealths, mainly, do we expect to be sustained; and, therefore, to the development of their natural resourees, the collection of their early history, the depicting of their social condition, the recording of their physical progress, and the advocacy of what we conceive to be their true interests, shall our efforts be untiringly directed. In Ohio alone, as yet, with a very slight exception, have we sought a remuneration for our labors; and the readiness with which her citizens have come up to the support of our undertaking, is gratifying in the extreme to our feelings of State pride. In those of her sister commonwealths named above, we shall soon seek to extend the circulation of our work; and we hope to find the intelligent citizens of these several States, impressed with that sense of the usefulness and importance of a wholesome periodical literature, which will induce them warmly to co-operate with us in our efforts. The assistance of our editorial contemporaries to whom an exchange is now proffered, is earnestly solicited. They have some knowledge of us in times. past: for times future, we refer them to our monthly doings, as these shall appear before them. For many kindnesses, we are already indebted to some of them; and, as the only remuneration in our power, we hope we shall long be able to contribute to their intellectual delight.

What the HESPERIAN has been heretofore, in all essential points, it will be hereafter industrious in its researches, deliberate in its judgments, candid in its opinions,

and dignified in its tone-carefully eschewing evil, honestly aiming to do good. We shall move quietly in our sphere, without pretension or parade, asking only that meed of approbation which can be sincerely awarded, and claiming only that support which we may be found to deserve.

A MONTHLY MISCELLANY OF GENERAL LITERATURE,

Original and Select.

VOLUME III.

CINCINNATI.

THE DUTCHMAN'S DAUGHTER.

A TALE OF THE EARLY EMIGRANTS. IN FOUR PARTS.

BY WILLIAM D. GALLAGHER.

NUMBER I.

INTRODUCTION.

publication. The division of the tale here given, comprehends about one-fourth of the whole. The remaining Parts will be published, one each month, in three consecutive numbers of the magazine, immediately following this.

The "Admiral's Daughter," the "Courtier's Daughter," the "Clergyman's DaughTwo or three characters, and one or two ter," and so many other daughters, have short passages, of this novelette, may be re- been "brought out" of late, that an alteracognized by some readers as acquaintances tion in the title of this novelette would perof a former day. It seems therefore neces-haps be politic and in good taste; but as the sary the author should state, that the pro- "Dutchman's Daughter" was born in seduction has been the work of occasional pe- cret, and christened in the presence of a few riods, of a few days each, during the last friends, long before either of those fair damsix years; and that between four and five sels appeared upon the stage of life, the auyears ago, a couple of chapters of it, one of thor feels no disposition to fee the parson which is now embodied in the first and the anew, or convoke the legislature to deliberate other in the second part, were published in a upon a change of her name. periodical work then under his direction, with the title of "Passages from the Chronicles of the Dutch Village.' These, with an extract called "The Dutch Philosopher," given subsequently in a magazine of very limited circulation, make up the amount of what has heretofore appeared in print.

The whole production has been revised, and almost entirely re-written, within a few months, with the intention of giving it to the public in the usual form of such works: but the author's connection with the Hesperian, formed since the first indulgence of that intention, and his determination to give to this periodical the benefit of all his efforts, have induced him to adopt the present mode of

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Without further word, he now commits the production to the good graces of readers, and the tender mercies of critics, and at once stands aside to let those pass on, whom this has been written to introduce.

CHAPTER I.

AN ARRIVAL AT THE SWAN.

SOME twelve years ago, the Dutch Village, considered in any aspect whatever, was one of the finest and handsomest towns in all the among the "Far West;" and many agreeable things which appertained unto it, were two that can not be found every day, search