was proclaimed, to the American Army and the war came to an end. The other anniversairies to which we re fer include that of the first pony express, which moved out of the frontier settlement of St. Joseph, Missouri, on April 3, I860.; The first formally-organized government in the Northwest took place at Marietta, Ohio, on April 7, 1788, when forty-seven veterans of the Revolutionary War, under General Rufus Putnam, founded the city on the river bank. Other events of considerable importance in the history of this nation occurred dur- ’ ing April, including the birth of Thomas Jefferson, on the 13th, the death of Abra ham Lincoln on the 15th, the landing of the first permanent English settlers at Jamestown, on April 26, 1607, and the in auguration of George Washington as the first President of the Republic on April 30, .1789.

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