[The following historical scrap, furnished by Erastus Wadleigh, Esq., of Sutton, will be of interest, especially on account of its presentation of the varying orthography of the name attached to the well-known mountain in western Merrimack.] Sutton was granted by the Masonian Proprietors to Capt. Obadiah Perry and sixty-two others from Haverhill, Mass., and vicinity, in 1749. It was described by them as being a tract of land seven and one-fourth miles long and five miles wide, lying on the west side of Kyah Sargg Hill, in form a parallelogram. The limit has never been changed. As appears from the records Kyah Sargg Hill was written by the grantees at that date Ki a sarge Hill; in 1750, Ci a sarge Hill; 1752; Ci ar sarge Hill; in 1761, Ka sargy in Hill; in 1765, Chy e sarge Mountain. late of Warner, (who was founder of a religious sect, now nearly extinct, called Osgoodites) is supposed to be the oldest native of Sutton now living. She was born September 12,1779.and is a daughter of Jonathan Stevens, who was one of the six first settlers of Sutton. Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Messer and wife, was born May 6th of the same year, and died Dec. 1875, in the 97th year of her age. No settlement was made in town except David Peaslee, and family, prior to 1770. The first child born in town was born Oct. 31st or Nov. 1st, 1770. It was said the birth was near midnight, hence the Mrs. Osgood, widow of Jacob Osgood, uncertainty of date. EDITORIAL MEMORANDA. While the young men of New Hampshire "go West" in large numbers to engage in business, few, as yet, go there for educational advantages. The last calendar of the University of Michigan, the leading educational institution in the Western States, contains the names of but four students from New Hampshire in a total number of 1230. Of these, two are in the Medical and two in the Law Department. The GRANITE MONTHLY is a non-sectarian as well as non-partisan magazine. This fact, however, does not preclude the publication in its pages of any fair statement of political or religious faith, as entertained by parties or denominations, which may be furnished by contributors for general information. We make this statement, that no misapprehension may arise in the mind of any upon this point. The proposals for the different classes of work upon the new State Prison, for which the last Legislature voted an appropriation not to exceed $200,000, have been quite numerous, and on the whole, most satisfactory to the Commissioners. In fact the public are assured that the new prison will be erected at a cost within the sum specified by the Legislature, and the work and materials be at the same time of the most thorough order and best quality. If such actually proves to be the result the people of New Hampshire may well congratulate themselves upon a most fortunate escape from the wholesale jobbery and plundering which has afflicted almost every State in the Union where public works or edifices of any magnitude have been built, during the last two decades, and the credit will be in a large measure due to the souud judgment and practical sagacity of the Commissioners. The excellent portrait of Prof. Edwin D. Sanborn, of Dartmouth College, with the interesting sketch of his career, from the pen of the Rev. Silas Ketchum, which ed with pleasure by many of those at we present in this number, will be greethome and abroad who have enjoyed the benefit of his wise instructions in the recitation room or from the lecture platform, and, in fact, by all the readers of the GRANITE MONTHLY, to whose entertainment his pen has so liberally contributed. The poem in this issue entitled "Wings of Flame," by Rev. Leander S. Coan of Alton, was read by the author at the dedication of the new Congregational church in Pittsfield, erected in place of the one destroyed by the disastrous fire of the previous year, and was written expressly for that occasion. It has never before been published, and will be of interest to those in that locality, as well as to the many admirers of Mr. Coan's productions throughout the State, and beyond its borders. Its peculiar rythmical construction, as well as intensity of expression cannot fail to attract attention and excite admiration. Several of Mr. Coan's poems have attained a wide popularity, that entitled "Better in the Morning" being a notable example, the same having been copied by numerous papers in all sections of the country, and called forth the warmest expressions of commendation. A question of no little interest is to arise next June, as to the duty of the Legislature then assembled in reference to the election of a United States Sena tor to succeed Senator Wadleigh, whose first election under the same occurs on term expires on the fourth of March the Tuesday following the first Monday next. The law of the United States pro- in November, when, in addition to the vides that the Legislature chosen at the officers heretofore chosen at our State election next previous to the expiration election, the people, in each of the severof the term shall elect the Senator. The al Counties, will make choice of Sheriff, Legislature which will then be in session, Solicitor and Register of Probate. This and whose members have just been cho- change, as well as that making the elecsen. will be the Legislature of the State tions occur biennially instead of anuntil the first of June, 1879-three months nually, tends to materially increase the after the expiration of Senator Wadleigh's general interest in the election itself, as term; yet members of the succeeding it adds to its importance. Legislature will have been chosen at the election in November previous, four months before the expiration of said term. The question, then, will be which is the "Legislature" contemplated by the United States law, that which is the actual Legislature of the State at the time the Senatorial term expires, or that which is at best prospective and unorganized, but whose members have been chosen by the people. Upon this question, as is already apparent, there will be a difference of opinion, and that entirely without reference to partisan bias, many good lawyers, of both parties, taking the ground that the Legislature which meets next June should elect, while others, not less entitled to respect, maintain the opposite view. The election recently holden in this State is the final one under the old Constitution. The amended. Constitution, providing for biennial elections, goes into operation, by act of the last Legislature, on the first day of October next, and the After November next we shall escape all election excitement for the period of two years, and alternate years thereafter, unless the next Legislature sees fit to amend the act of last year, making our town and city elections occur biennlally, on the same day with the State election. There is a diversity of sentiment as to the propriety of such action on the part of the Legislature, many claiming that the local elections should occur at a different time from the State election, so as to remove the former, as far as possible, from partisan influences, while others maintain, with considerable force of argument, that the change suggested would effect nothing in the desired direction. However this may be it seems probable at least that the people of the State will find it practically necessary to the proper management of their town and municipal affairs, to hold their local elections every year, and that sooner or later the Legislature will be called upon to make provision therefor. The recent reappointment of Hon. Joshua G. Hall of Dover as U.S.District Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, by calling public attention to his name, renders a biographical sketch of this gentleman particularly appropriate at this time. Mr. Hall was born in the town of Wakefield, November 5, 1828, and is therefore in the fiftieth year of his age. He is a lineal descendant of that John Hall who was one of the early settlers of Dover, and a Deacon of the First Parish Church from 1655 to 1693. His grandfather, Samuel Hall, removed from Dover to what was soon after incorporated as Wakefield, about the year 1770, being among the first settlers of that town. His father (also named Joshua G. Hall), was engaged in mercantile life, and was long a prominent citizen of Wakefield, taking an active part in public and political affairs, and representing the town for a number of years in the General Court. His wife was Betsey Plumer, a daughter of Hon. Beard Plumer of Milton, who represented the Fifth District in the State Senate for the years 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813 and 1816, and a granddaughter of Hon. John Plumer of Rochester, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas subsequent tô the Revolution, and who died in 1816, at the age of 96 years. They had five children, the youngest of whom is the subject of this sketch. Two brothers and a sister, still living, all reside at Union Village in Wakefield. JOSHUA GILMAN HALL derives his middle name from his great grandfather, Jeremiah Gilman, (father of his grandmother Hall) who was a Captain under Stark at Bennington, and had previously held a similar commissson in the old French and Indian War-one of the historic family of Gilmans of Exeter, a native of that town, and one of the early settlers of Wakefield. He received his college preparatory education at the well-known Gilmanton Academy, then under the charge of Charles Tenney, and entered Dartmouth College in August, 1847, graduating from that institution in 1851. Among his classmates in college were George William Burleigh and Edward Ashton Rollins, Prof. Elihu T. Quimby, and ex-Congressman Willard of Vermont. Making choice of the legal profession he entered the office of the late Hon. Daniel M. Christie of Dover, where he remained several years, and through dilligent study and the wise instruction of his eminent preceptor, he laid the foundation for the substantial success which he has attained. He was admitted to the Strafford Bar in 1855, and immediately commenced the practice of the profession at Union Village in his native town, where he remained for three years. Here it may be remarked that Mr. Hall is not the only lawyer of distinction reared in the town of Wakefield. George Y. Sawyer of Nashua, formerly a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, and one of the ablest members of the Hillsborough County Bar, is a native of this town-a son of William Sawyer, also a well-known lawyer of his time, who graduated at Cambridge in 1801, being a classmate of the late Chief Justice Shaw, of Massachusetts, studied law in Dover with Henry Mellen, Esq., and settled in Wakefield in 1804, subsequently forming a partnership with Josiah H. Hobbs, father of Frank Hobbs now of Dover, another of the sons of Wakefield who has attained eminence in the legal profession. In December, 1858, Mr. Hall remov、d from Union Village to Dover, and entered into partnership with Hon. Samuel M. Wheeler, remaining in company with that gentleman in the practice of the law until 1867, when the co-partnership was dissolved. Since then he has been alone in practice, and has devoted himself untiringly to the duties of hls profession, winning an enviable reputation as & sound lawyer, and substantial success as a practitioner. In politics Mr. Hall is a Republican of Whig antecedents, and decided convictions, but has never been a politician in the usual acceptation of the term, and has never sought political preferment, though he has frequently been chosen to official positions of honor and trust. He was elected Mayor of Dover in November, 1865, and so acceptably discharged the duties of the office that he was reelected the following year by a nearly unanimous vote, only five ballots, in all, being cast against him. His administra |