CALUMNIATIONS OF THE PRESS!
DON'T CALL ME PET NAMES—WILLIAM vs. ROBERT!
ALL A MISTAKE ABOUT THAT CHISEL!
SARAH'S MUGS AND PORRINGERS!
"HOW IS MY FRIEND, COL. LIVINGSTONE?"
EAST INDIA RING vs. INNOCENCE!
CAN ADAMS AND CHOATE CLEAR HIM? etc. etc.
[From Herald Special Correspondent.]
BOSTON, 16th July, 1699.
Your correspondent arrived here last evening, and found (as already telegraphed) that the arrest and imprisonment of Captain Kidd, the champion pirate of the world, continues to form the all-absorbing topic of conversation. Little Boston has got a sensation at last, and is determined to keep it. Merchants and brokers talk Kidd on 'Change. Groups at the hotels discuss the nautical hero. Badly-executed pictures of him stare at you from the shop-windows. Cotton Mather, the great gun of the clergy here, blazes away at this "child of iniquity" from the pulpit; and it is understood that a prominent publishing-house has already arranged to bring out The Autobiography of a Buccaneer. On dit, that certain parties are negotiating to have him appear next season as a lecturer in case he isn't wanted on another platform.