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»Aa»s*£i£5i ^T^ESI^VJ^KNI.N/'^ lA'llS^ *Timx M^T^or-ThTm^tinK ^ H^n- J,,|..») «* W«rt B«».i.l.l«-ThL I. il.C ,dBy .lii ulfam . «pon «W«q«« «««n , welhi,,l. .ore i. ¦nil one o;»»i«n mnong ui , nnil tliat is, tha t the nmendflicnl 0U Sl11 |r> U* o<1"P loa 'V lhc P00''1" of the Commonwealth. —Upon tho aulij cci of /lcpiciftnf«ll ve« wn hnve licaril Imt linl« ««'k' i «•« arc however of the opinion Jl lftl " WOII 'J blr fortl ic bP«t lntcre »t» of tiiil Town lo he fully repr e»et» lfd. It W piolwlilo that tlmre will lie hut one louion ofir te hoxt Legislature mid much iiunlne** of Impor tnnco mult nccriiuril y In; net- cd upon. —The City Council lina fixed ii|n»« Sui .'/ in ill* numb er to bo tho ncii for Ilitaton— IMy- inoiilh lini choncn fivp, mid we licliitve tint tli o town * gener all y, will be qui te a* largel y rcpn- »rnlcil , ir not more io, tlinn Ia«t yfnr , find w< kn ow of un good rca» on why Huriut ublu nliouM not linvc lior full (iiioIh. : The Rurnr.MK Ji i iiiciAt. Court , wliidi com- menced it« niiting in tlii« |>l«cur neigh- borhood, which we nre surprised , should bo long have escaped the " prying eye" of our worth y brother of the J ournal ; it is nn Almond Tree which hns been somu two weeks in blossom , and bids fair to have Uuvei and fruit ; we would ic < ouunond this lo tin- notice of our friend.. Sunda y Schools.—It has been suggested lo us by an nminblc fri end , that nn ndvnnlngc would be derived to the children of the inhabi- tants of the respective School Districts , that they inn y universall y receive the benefit of Sab- ba th Schools ; n» (lie innuner in which they nre now held in this vicinity , ennablcs bu t a small pnrt lo receive these advantages. In many ol ihc New Eng land and Middle Stales , Suuduy .Schoolsnre established , nnd regul arly nnd punc- lunlly at tended. Lessons nro «¦"" *' ollt f f nm ficrip turo mid Cnt p-'l'l.in , approbated by the clergyme n, «ud learned during the leisure ho urs , »nj recited on Sabba th morn , prev ious to (ho c ommencement of ptiblic worshi p, The good derived from them is incalculabl y groa t. The infant mind should be cul tivated an carefull y as ihe best soil, nnd even disposit ions prone to \ii-c,nnd ignorance , enn by uttcntioii nnd jud g- ment be brou ght to becoino nt least , heal th y, useful and virtuous. If the scri ptures are used in their simp lest state , wi thout nntc or comment , we have no right lo object ; the young nnd ris- ing genera tion have nn imlisput oblo title to the bread of Ufa contained In them , as much so, as tho cvnimou food nnd air. inrll ai our very good friend of ihi> N. Bedford (in»ell« any caus, for his ill humor , or it he ner- ving »ll alike ? H he moro noble more potent limn nny of hi* compeers or are wo to stand $ul- l.mly by nnd listen to hit sarcas m and not repl y to it ? We did aim our shot such at it wn, ttt him in perfect good nature , but he wUheg j, >vn, something which would pene trat e j son,e(Uing weighty,."ndy liat. would muke » decp | mpVM . »iou and laUeii^lion. Thu erro r was with our utilghboi Ift the fiist iJlittiDce, not With us. We uatfeed hU remnrUi uyon obsurd captions , were xratified w^lhthe tenor of them tnnd thou ght thkt it teat neceittry to make mnie obtervntiont, as we had here tofore in «onVert alion, gjion the bailie subject. But lo! he tayt Ilitre is no disa- greemen t. Ho observes that we thoulil thnoi ind; mi that would he better thftH uothin g. We :>re not the only editor who nhoots 4a :air gum, Verity to, s«y we to our /»iend ot the Gnscite. " I.adik s ' Social (.'iiiclk. 1'—U nder iIim hea d , it has been our intention , to miggcst ere this , the grea t advantage * to lie derived to those vnung ladies of thin vi< loily, that may take nn Intercut in such n noddy. Why should our vil- lage be exemp t from nn institution of this de- scrip tion ? and why do not the minds of young ladies need ffrnciicn f, scieutiRc rulfivniion «« mu ch ns those of young men. Too long hat tri- 'V nj; topic s of conversation been apparentl y t he onl y tteililtrnlum , or onl y obj ect sought for by both Rexet in country village *. We nre prone to confess, thnt in very mnny cases , the female mind is ca nal in npiitudc to lctirn , to the mind of (he lordship) or mnn. But thn richest of soil needs cultivation or plaiiling, or weeds only grow. It i< n cnpifn l mistake Cor Ih e female pnrt of our commun ity to employ th eir time In domci- lic pursu i ts , rendin g novel* and making purlieu ; Whn t in the remdl in the end ? What !« ncconv j.li nhed ? Did the lmllr force U to be preferred lo the present state of things , rcmiiin s a question with ma ny, wliich time nnd the experiment onlv enn nnt wer. It bns been nrgiMl by the ,-idi-ocntes of Ihe nbro nntion of the third section above nnmed , that it would render the cler gy more dili gent nnd stu- dious ; Ihe people would be more cautious in se- lecting n man in every respect qmil.Ticdlo fill with ndvnnlagc the Ui gh and responsible station. Docs a man or any number of men wish to hnve n house ere cted , they do not emp loy a mechan- ic thnt can simply pl ane the boards and hew a stick of limber , but n man that understa nds his entire duly, uud is ever prc pnrcd to perform every pnrt of it. The system ns it exists nt pres ent , looks a little like (lie established Churc h of En gland. There every rtim i must pay to old mother church ; mutt support tho established ol -Epi scopalian form of worship. In this Slate , it is not far dintnnt from that ; relig ious wor shi p must be supported by a lax , as the Constitution of the State require s. If reli gion can only exist by human laws , nnd by money, it nrttst bo ' of but little use ; it must otherwise prove th oj it hns not a divine ori gin. But , on the other side the ex- periment has been fairl y tried ; in the great Sfa tc of New York , where -as sembled from all the nations on the earth , (comp osing a heteroge- nous mass of human kind , no where to be found in so good a sta te of civilization and quiet ;) in tha t Slate , Religion , or its minis ters are not sup- por ted or nmintiii ncd by law , any further tha n to compel men lo fulfil their contracts nnd make good their agreements and engagements with their vtar gyman. It cannot be expected in any society that a lar ge.;number of people will be found who agre e lo every respect with each otli- er or with the clergyman ! lie should be paid for Ml his servicesas he performs them , well or HI , and mo compulsion ninde use of, when the P«o|»le wish him «Way, bu t can allege nothing against his moral or-tierical chara cter suffi. cicm totemov e hiM ; : • Written f nr the Dnrnttahl e Palrml. Mr. Editor— In looking over your paper of the 4ih inst. I observed a notice signed by Reu- ben Cttboon, Inme t Long, and Amasa Nicker- son, nt a Committee or Ihe Proprie tor * of a Meeting-ho use, situa ted In Harwich , stating that they should tnke possession of said Mee ting, house on the 7th of May mutant , and pr oceed according to Ihe authority invested in them. Now Mr. lidilor , th ere nre three Meeting- houses in our town nnd to which of the three these genitcmen refer , it a ma iler ot doubt to me, nnd I wi sh thro ug h >« ur paper lo ask thes e gen tlemen who have no mur.h authority lo hon« of to Inform the public which of these Houses they claim , and by wha t aut hority they claim either , nnd until this informa tion is given, their au thority lo claim cillicr of Ihe hotises will be quegtjuncd. "• Harwich,Mav Oth ,1fefll. W3H3M * " 2^U*-lifc??lM^ ITEM S. The body of th« feuiHlc found hnng ing in a shed nenr Bi ig hlo n-sir fii , hns been indentif icd by her fnmily, nnd delivered lo lliem. The publicat ion of the Iloslon Commentator is merg ed in Unit of the tJa laxy, which is lo be MM icd on flaiiudny 7.'vtnin 'g and Suudny morn- ing. \ lot of watches were seized in New York on I' ridnv , Imving been landed nt Philad el phia wi th- out being enler ei) . Two or three bri» k homes hnve latel y 'fa ll en down io Philadel phia lit fixe lliey were quiic Imill up ; lik e IIib ciinJ house* bnill by childr e n. At PoM Tob acco , on the Pot omnc , lhc seine haulers nre said lo be doing belter buiiii i'M than Cor several years. 100,0''" .ni'l 6'i,tMMI liclTing* Imvt been taken at one haul , repeatedl y. A cili/.eii in Ph iliidel phiu latel y went into a vnnlt io.look for n ml that was missing. lie mixed n stone over a small pn>«iagi: wny con- necting two sinks , when the ftnme. of I lie enndle held by lii < chil'l , set fire lo (lie gns within (iii'l he whs severely burnt. An enrthqu uke was felt at Equ ality, Illin oin , •M ult . In Pninsvillr , Oh'm, a set of fannlica , culled Mor mniti lies , who have ' nil things in common ,' were latel y imposed upon li v Komc. persons uh o join ed lUeir Society and left il wbi n ihey were well chid. Near Quebec , ) 8lh nil. lhc utenncr Wat erloo , got jain hed .mil cinik in (V) feet water. Nocnr n u was savi'il , nod the passengers rscap .)d with
  • isliii)C( ramc from the shore. In nn affray in llniiford , Con n. 22d ult. be- tween sonic oJ ' the while and colored population , seven or eight persons were injured , one ol whom , a respectable person named Chnpinnu , wns wanton ly ullncked. Two blacks were nr- lesl cd. A woinnn wns nrreslcd In New York , recentl y rhiirgcd willi nllempling lo cut her hiisbnnd ' * I hront. ti\\r. wns soon nfler ¦'••leased , ns it up- penred (hat when t,hi! was drunk he bent her , ii;nt when hi' was drunk she did him the name kindness ; that when he was shaving the y quar- relled , mid lie llirc iv hot wnter at her mid bent her ir.it , and in her at tempting to get in , a scuf- fle ensued , and she inflicted the wound. The iNiihlivitlc Teuii. I' liniu r, (.lutes Ihnt a geiill enian hag recentl y invented a new plan of instructing the blind , one which will not onl y enable Iho sn deprived nf stiijhl lo enjoy Ihe ben- vfits of reading, Inn to record their own ideas by n mode of Wilting ndapt ed lo the sense, ofioncli. A mong the otlii'i' connivance * is u mat liine which , in the hands of a blind person will ennble Ji/'iii lo nsniit in sooie pr iff , charged with robbing the trunk of (.'apt. Bunker , nt New Bedfoi d , has plead guilly, but reserved the li ght of I nking exceptions lo the indictment ; n queslion of law is raised on Ihe indictment , for th e decision of the w hole Court in October. Workmen nrr. employed on Ihe Mull of Inde- pend ence , Philad el phia , lo re store it lo the state in which it appeared , .Inl y 4, 177(5. Mortimer Ounniii g hnm , late P. ,VI. nt Abing - ton , Md. bus been tried nnd acquitted of robbing the mail last winter. The trial lusted 10 days , and the jury were confined 30 hour * before Ihey agreed , Mr. John Gibbon , Jr hns been fined $3(i l nt Xnucsv 'illc , Ohio , for brench of promise of mar- rlnge. A son of Jud ge Nnl hl Williams of Tenness ee nged ti or 7 vents , tiring nt play, happened to approach the litter of n sow who had young pigs; thu animal being ulnrmed and enraged , att acked and killed him. Mr. W alsh snys of Moore 's life of Byron : ' It is the lifn ot' u profligate , w ritten by an accom- plice.' The Turkish Sullnn hns forbidden Ihe Turks lo cull Clirislimn , ' dog s, ' A proprietor of n manufactory in Boston pays Ihe workmen a premium of 510, pur nnum lor dispensing - with drink nl 11 mid 4 o'clock , but allows them Ihe requi site lime to eat luncheon. Robbery.—The dw elling of Mr. Samuel Penrce Cilouccsler , wns robbed on Thursday evening of last week , of a trunk containin g valuable papers and £ DiB x> at his late lrsid ftice in Hrookl jrn Connecticut , on Saiitunl ny lli« SOtli ult. Col. Daniel Putnam , aged tcventy one yonr s. \Vhen the aged , the excellent the hon- ored pass tnvfi v from the earth it is due, not more to their memory, tjinn to the generation * thatco pie after them , tn make record of their virtues nnd their servic es. The children can receive no belter legacy than iIk ; Aiir fasnu situl good exiun- \>\t! ot their fuilier *. To commemorate such men , ns it is a sacred duty to tl uir country , so it W the precious and pecul- iar privilege , of thei r private friend s— doubly precious when , »% in (lie present instance , to name them is lapraisc. Col. I titnam was the w orth y son of an ho nored father , ;i man whom Wash- ington bore witness tha t he. had cont ri- titticd ' it distingu ished pa rt ' towards the altninm t .-nt of his countr y 's happ iness and securit y. He inherited nnd well biis- t ained a name , which , till th e story of A- merican Independence shall be forgotten will he. held synonymous with whatever is most daring in courag e,chivnlri c in hon- or. The first intelli gence of the n fiYtr nt Lexi ngton found Maj or General Pu tnam , it is said , at liii ploug h ; and mountin g one of I!)«• horses wi th which he was at work , he arrived on the day in which he hea rd it , nt Cam brid ge. H is son not yet 17, soon followed , and was at his fath ers heml quarters »l the Innian f/ir m in Can brid ge, {luring llie Rattle of Bun- ke r-hill , in which the latter bore a part so honourabl y distinguished , lli-pairiii " to New York on (he evacuation of 15m- lon by the Brilish. he was appointed his fath ers aid , with the rank of Major ; be- ing associated in the Generals militar y famil y, with Col yVaron Burr , and the late. Gen. Hump hreys. In this capacity he acted until 17K0 , when General I'ul- mini retiring fro m the army, in conse- quence of n severe pnralvtic shock , his son n(nitied home with him , to ass ist in lite reparation , of his iiff.iirs deran ged by his long absence in the public service. — Du ring the hue war , Maj or Putnam re- ceived a (Jol (.i)i.'ls commission , aiul was ap- pointed lo the command of a company of exempts. Narro w Kscnp c.—A very singular mat- ter happened at Wilkinson superior Court last week. A gentleman , as we under- stand it , a member of the Grand Jury , asked his neighbor for the loan of a dol- lar. I Io assented took out his pocket book , and opened il when the app licant , seei ng a dollar note , put his hand into the book , in a fnmlht r way , and took it out. The lender a short time aft erwards , having oc- casion to examin e his money, missed a hundred dollar bill. From I lie borrow- er 's manner , and from bis having taken (he money rat her too familiarl y, he u-as suspe cted ,—and the lender finall y became satisfie d thai the $100 bill had been ta- ken feUmcousl y at tin: sainii lime that the one dollar bill was taken. The bor- rower , asserting liii innocence , a bill of indictment wan pref erred against him :— the jury returned the bill—be was expel- led from th e j ury ; and so strong was the ptiblic feeliiig against him that he had (o go to j ail , for the want of ball. He was dese rted by ever y bod y. There 1 was then no doubt tha t he would be convict- ed. In the mean time , another man , who was attendin g court , heard of the circum- stances , and reccollecled having received what pur ported to be thirty-five dollars , on th e same day, from the lender above mentioned lie went home and examined the money. Neither himself nor his wife being able to re.id , all that they could il>- terminn was that there were three notes which he had taken as ten , dolla rs each anil one as five—and that one of the tens was unlike tin ; others. He brou ght (he money to the court house banded the money to the Solicitor , and exp lained the circumstances of bis havin g received it the day before. On examination one of the bills supposed to have been paid for (en , t urned out to be a hundred dollai bill. This exp lii ned the loss. The bor- rower was brou ght out of jail , relieved from all suspicion of crime , and restored to Ins ri ghts a nd Privileges as a membei of the Grand Jury, nnd (o his stan din g in society. — [Georg ia Jou rnal. Indian Chief .—On the 27th ult. there was found washed out of n sand b t nk , in th e southeast part of this villa ge, the re- mains of a human being, supposed to be an India n Chief. The chest , which was surroun ded by a belt of brass tubes , was in a state of rennrkable. preservation. — There was nlso found with him severa l pieces of br ass plat e, and a cr » • contain- ing half a dozen brass arrow heads. The whole was enveloped in mats of finel y brai ded bark , nnd enclosed in a case of cedur bark. All the parts thnt came in contact with the metal and were near it , present no appearances of' decay. The integuments muscles and bones of the chest and of the ar ms which rested up- on it , ns well the bark that enveloped them , are entirel y preserved and remain stron g and flexible. The place whence these remains were laken is within the Pocasset purchase, nenr its boundary, and within a field that has been cultivated near a century. It is probable they were interred a century nnd a half ago, perhaps longer. That the preservation was owing lo the metal there cannot be much question as only those parts were preserved which were in co;i» nection with and near it, the rest having tlisnpjM?arvd.~[Fal! River Monitor. * The lateJ ire^-The he in Broad street on Wednesd ay night , th ough it did not consume much valuabl e property was horribl y destructive of human life. It broke out about 11 o'clock , in the back part , of the buildin g used by M r. L.Mavn - ard Us a bak ery. It progress was extrem e- ly rapid, and the whole house was in flames before nny n«sistn nc« could be ob- tai ned. The inside is totall y consumed and nothing re mains but the blackened walls nnd smouldering ruins. It is strp. posed th;»l no less than eight or ten fam- i!ie .ocupied the building. Of these , one onl y consisting of a man , his wife and thre e" children , we'r e destr oyed. Their remnins were found this morn ing nnmnrk- cd by hardl y a vestige of humanity .— They prob abl y did not awaken at the first alarm nnd were suffocated by smok e issui ng from below ; their mime was Murp hy. Several others were burnt but not mortall y. A man and his wife sav- ed themselves by lenp ing from the win- dow of the thi rd story , having first thrown out their child , which was caug ht by a sailor and not mat eriall y injur txl. The man was coiiMil ernhl y hurl by jumping ; the woman but slightl y, n generous coun- I rymnu by the name of Donovan having caught her in his arm s , at th e risk of en- dangering his own bones. A per son , whose name we have not lenrnt jWns seen lo be heroicnl y en gaged in renderin g his assist ance ; he rushed twio ; throug h th e (limes and saved four children fro m imminent death. A slight alarm was produced yesterda y afternoon from the timbers havin g caug ht fire again ,but they weres:>on e.xlingui.Hlied. The active operati ons of the Firemen , and the unwea ried attentio n and labor ol* Mr. A mory the Chi' f Kng ineer , cannot be too highl y commended. So great was their exert ions lint the buildin g immediatel y adjoining, occup ied by M r. Weld , susta in- ed but a very trifling injur y fro m tho fla mes.— Duilu Adi\ Nan -am Escape. —O n Tuesday of last week , a lad ihe son of the Mr . Lee of Lenox , was severel y injured. Mr. Lee , we are told scnl his son on horseback Io a distant nei'jhbiir ; on his retur n home , the horse took fright and thre w the boy from (he. saddle. Unfortuna tely th e foot was still in ihe stirrup, and in this situation the horse ran with the lad about 20 rods .— His he ad was severely brui sed , but th o sk ull was not fractured , ihe under j:uv , was badl y broken. The liny, it is thou ght will recover. — FScrksh irc Atncr. Curiosity. —A countryman who had never seen nny th ing of the kind before , was so intent upon observing a steam - boat the other day at Caltskill , that he, forgot to stop when he arrived nt the eml of the wha rf , near which the object of his asto nishment was lying and walked souse into the water ; down he went * (says the Recorder ,) and the scum closed over him ! in a mosnent more he re-ap- peared , fortunatel y withi n reach of lh,; dock ,—he seized huld nnd crawled dri p- ping and shivering with wvt and cold. — Oh dear said he 'Jlh ought it was ground' —Statesman. Earl y Marriages. —A fa mily at South - port consists of an infan t , its mother , and gr andmother , of whom the latter is onl y about thirt y years of age ! She wns mar- ried at fifteen , nnd her daughter nt four- teen years old. — London Allan. We knew n lad y in this city who was a grandmother , at the age of twenty seven She wns maried at thirteen , and had a dau ght er married at the same age.— Eds. ;V. Y. Gazette. Prom Sea.—Betwee n the hours of 8 P. M. of Tuesda y, nnd S A. M. of Wednes- day, there arrived at this port I shi p, l barque , 1(5 bri gs, 47 schooner s and 10 sloops, 75 vessels in all , besides numer- ouseastern coasters and fishing craf t. 10 of these vessels were from foreign voyages (wo from New Orleans ; anil tvar ly nil th" remainder from Southern porfs, with valuable cargoes of bread stuffy provisions cotton and oth er raw materiali fur manu- facturin g purp oses, nnd much othe r mer- chandise. With such facts in view , it i* difficult for the peop le to reconcile their minds to the assertion that the American System is dindva nta geo-is to the shi pping interes t—Boston Patriot. Lan caste r ,(Penn.) Apr il 28.—An at- tempt to escape was made last Saturday night , by two more of the pr isoners con- fined in our jail. They succeeded in gel- ting on the roof and endeavored to descend into the yard by menti s of a rope con- structed out of their blankets. " W hen iV first had made some progress downwind the rope broke and he fell whereb y one of his thi gh bones was badl y fractured. — He however , told his companion tint he was unhurt , nnd encoura ged him to ( come on.' The second according ly procee 'leil and had scarcel y left the eavn of the roof, before he reached thu end of the rope and was compelled to let himself drop. One of his arms was broken by th e fall , and the bones from irn elbow to the should ' r nre so shattered and splintered , th at ihe consequences are likel y to pr ove fatal , as he refused to submit to amputation. The jailer had been aroused in the meantime, and If they had succeeded in getting safe- ly into the yard, they would still have been seised before they could have scaled tlw walls. Both had been sentenced to confinement in*the Eastern Penitentiary for short terms.