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John Ockum, Samuel Copps, Brenton Grant.
The Prosecution was conducted by Messrs. Leland of Roxbury, Sumner of Boston, and Cushing of Newbury- port, Managers appointed by the House of Representatives for the t pur- pose. The Defence by the Respond- ent, Samuel Blagge, Esq. wasananag- ed by Messrs. Rand, Jarvis, Knapp and Cook.
The trial occupied five days, during all which time the Senate Chamber was thronged with spectators, among whom were several of our most distin- guished citizens.
The Court came to a decision on Tuesday evening, which was made known in the House of Representa- tives on Wednesday.
The defendant was acquitted ;- Fifteen of the allegations first in order, were given up entirely, and on many of the remainder there was a unani- mous vote to acquit.
A very full and interesting report of the trial appeared in the Patriot of Feb. 8.
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DEATH OF ALEXANDER, EMPEROR OF RUSSIA.
The packet ship Howard, Capt. Hol- drege, arrived at New-York, Feb. 2d, from Havre, whence she sailed on the 20th of Dec. to which date Paris papers were received The most interest- ing intelligence, if we except the state of the London money market, is the account of the death of the Emperor Alexander, who died at Taganrock, after a few days illness. The intelli- gence reached Paris on the evening of the 18th of December, by a Tele- graphic despatch, dated from Strats- burgh on the same day. His death is said to have been occasioned by a sore leg, which brought on an attack of ery sipelas. The Grand Duke Con- stantine, Viceroy of Poland, inherits the throne of Russia. Alexander was born 22d Dec. 1777, and ascended the throne 24th March, 1801. The Grand Duke Constantine was born 8th May, 1779.
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AND CITY RECORD, FEB. 11, 1826.
SUMMARY.
We understand from a gentleman of undoubted veracity, that an aged gen- deman, who resides near Winter-lill, in Charlestown, and who is an' origi- wa! proprietor of one share only, in Charlestown Bridge, which cost £100, has received his principal and the in- terest upon the original cost, and a surplus of $7000 .- Pal.
The Rev. John Snelling Popkin has been elected Elliot Professor of Greek Literature in Harvard Uuiver- sity to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the Hon. Ed- ward Everett.
Honesty rewarded .- We learn from the Patriot that Mrs. Marshall, the old lady who sells nuts and apples on the lower floor of the State House in winter, and near the Old South in summer, a few days since found $200, in bank bills, which had been dropped by a merchant's apprentice while on his way to the treasury office. The money was advertised, and returned to its owner, who generously reward- ed Mrs. Marshall with twenty dollars, besides making provision for an annual stipend of five dollars during life.
Fire .- The alarm of fire on Sunday morning proved to be in a wooden building improved as a Dry Goods Store by Mr. J. G. Morse, No. 223, Washington street, but by the spirited exertions of the Enginemen, it was extinguished.
A Veteran Editor .- On the 6th of January the editor of the Kentucky Gazette entered upon the fortieth year of his editorial labors. The Gazette was the first paper printed in the west- ern country, except the Pittsburg Ga- zette-was established, and has been conducted thirty-nine years by the present editor-an instance of steady perseverance believed to be unparal- leled .- The editor is now in the sev- enty-seventh year of his age, and was an active soldier in the revolution .- Balt. Pat.
The Boston Editorial Fraternity numbers at least one who has served longer than the Kentuckyan ; having !
been Editor and Publisher of a semi- weekly paper since 1784.
The Influenza .- It is stated that not less than 20,000 persons were affect- ed with this complaint, at one time, in Philadelphia. We regret to learn that it prevails to a considerable ex- tent in this city.
New York, Feb. 1, 1826 .- The Influenza rages here beyond all de- scription-the symptoms with all are alike, the eye balls are so sore as hard- ly to discern any thing, with a severe pain in the head, back and limbs, sore throat, and head very much stuffed -- after a day or two, a rheumatie pain ensues, which lasts three or four days, and then subsides. Very few children are attacked with it.
Appointments by the Governor and Council .- Levi Lyman, of North- ampton, to be Chief Justice of the Court of Sessions for the County of Hampshire ; Charles E. Forbes, of Northampton, to be attorney of the Commonwealth for the county of Hampshire ; Henry W. Bishop, of Richmond, to be Register of Probate for the County of Berkshire.
The towns of Rehoboth and Attle- borough have purchased farms, which are to be cultivated by paupers, who are to be placed there for that purpose.
The inhabitants of West Cambridge and several other towns in Massachu- setts employ their poor in repairing the- highways during the principal part of the year, under the direction of an overseer.
The population of the State of New York is ascertained, by the late census, to be 1,616,458, being an increase since the census of 1820, of 242,648.
Canal Commerce .- In 1824, the number of Canal boat arrivals and de- partures, at the port of Albany, was 2672. During the last year there were 9,594 arrivals and departures at the same port.
James B. Gardiner has been three times returned as a member of the Le- gislature of Ohio, and three times re- jected, because, we believe, he prom-
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
ised to serve without pay or for less than the legal pay.
Party spirit rages in Upper Canada. One party has taken the American Emigrants as allies, and enforced the playing of ' Hail Columbia' and ' Yan- kee Doodle' at the Theatre with doffed hats. The Anglo Americans have a majority in the House of Assembly, where the proceedings have sometimes been uproarious.
Deaths, in New York, city and coun- ty, in 1825-5,018, including burned or scalded 30-casualties 53-drink- ing cold water 77-drowned 56-fro- zen 3-infanticide 3-insanity 26- intemperance 84-killed or murdered 3-measles 53-small-pox 40-sui- cide 14 .- 147 died of apoplexy, 843 of consumptions, 293 of convulsions, 110 of dropsy, 196 of dropsy in the head, 138 of dysentery, 433 of fevers, 503 of inflammation of the chest, 203 of old age, and 244 stillborn. There were 677 more deaths than in 1824, which the inspector attributes partly to the increase of population, and part- ly to the natural consequence of the excessive heat during the month of Ju- ly. The Inspector also remarks that the fever cases were generally more numerous than in 1824.
The Trustees of the University of Alabama have made a report, by which it appears, that 12,718 acres of land belonging to that Institution have been sold, producing, with interest and rents, the sum of $176,956 17. There remains yet for sale, 33,361 acres ; and it is supposed the aggregate pro- duced by the whole will exceed $750, 000.
The Rev. Dr. Payson, of Portland, has declined the invitation he recent- ly received from New-York, to become Pastor of the Society, late Dr. Ro- meyn's.
CITY RECORD.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
Feb. 6th .- The Board non-concur- red with the Common Council in the orders for the sale of 10 lots of Neck
Land ; and directing a survey of all the marsh and flats lying about South Boston Bay.
Petitions of the Vigilant Society ; and of John G. Coffin were commit- ted. Adjourned.
IN COMMON COUNCIL.
Feb. 6. A communication from the Directors of the House of Industry, stating that it will be necessary to have a further appropriation of $3000 to complete the fence round the Farm, was read and laid on the table.
The Committee directed to consid- er and report some practicable plan by which juvenile offenders may be re- formed as well as punished, made a report recommending the following resolutions for the adoption of the City Council :
Resolved, It is expedient that the North jail in Leverett-street, and so much of the South jail, as the conve- nience and safety of the other prison- ers permit, should be continued as a House of Correction for male and fe- male adults.
Resolved, That so much of the East building at South Boston, which was erected and is or may be fitted as a House of correction, be appropriated as a House of reformation for juvenile de- linquents ; under the care of the Di- rectors of the House of Industry, until the further orders of the City Council.
Resolved, That a Committee be ap- pointed with full authority to apply to the Legislature for such powers and authorities as may be deemed expedi- ent or necessary to carry into effect the design of the City Council in es- tablishing a house for the reformation of juvenile delinquents.
These resolves were passed. And an order passed authorizing the same Committee to apply to the Legisla- ture for the powers mentioned in the third resolve.
Petitions-of Andrew Campbell ; of F. Green and N. Webb, Assessors ; of John Thompson and others; and a remonstrance of Joseph Field and others, were committed.
The Committee to whom was re- ferred the petitions of certain suffer-
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ers by fire in Brunswick and Tops- ham. Me. made the following report, which was read and accepted in con- currence :-
REPORT.
That in addition to the petitions above mentioned, your Committee have received petions from the towns of Ripley, of Parkman and Guilford, in the State of Maine, which accom- pany this report, and it is understood, that other petitions from sufferers by like calamities, in other quarters may be expected.
The distinguished liberality of the citizens of Boston on occasions of this nature is unquestionably the cause of the number and frequency of these ap- plications ; a circumstance, which renders it proper for the City Council to consider its own duty, in this re- spect,-not to permit the charity of our fellow citizens to be unduly or un- reasonably called upon, particularly in the forms of authority and under the sanction of an official act.
Taking the number and the nature of these applications into consid- eration, and also the difficulty of dis- criminating in a public capacity, be- tween the degrees and real character of claims of this description, your Committee are of opinion that the City Council ought to reserve its pub- lic recommendations of a general contribution, in such a city as Boston, to cases of great and wide spread ca- lamity, of a character calling for the interposition of a great community ; and that it should leave those, which seem of a common or individual char- acter, and such as a reasonable pru- dence might have guarded against, to be relieved by applications to be made by the sufferers or their agents to such individuals or societies as being in a situation to become acquainted with the circumstances of each case, can extend their charity with a suitable discrimination.
Your Committee, therefore, not doubting that each of the cases of the respective applicants has claims vary- ing in degree, on the comparison of the charitable and prosperous, yet
they do not deem that either applica- tion presents a case of that peculiar character in point of nature and ex- tent, as to render it proper the City Council should issue a general recom- mendation for a contribution among all the citizens and religious societies in its behalf. All which is respectful- ly submitted.
JOSIAH QUINCY, Chairman. Adjourned to Monday next, at & past 6 o'clock.
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNER- SHIP.
The Partnership heretofore existing un- der the firm of Pendleton & Bowen, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All per- sons having claims against the firm will present them to W. S. Pendleton, who is authorized to settle the accounts of the con- cern. Those indebted will please make im- mediate payment. W. S. PENDLETON.
ABEL BOWEN.
Boston, Jan. 31, 1826.
W. S. PENDLETON respectfully in- forms his friends and the public, that the above Business will be carried on by him in Conjunction with his Brother, who will add to the Establishment the advantage of
LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTING.
Orders for Printing on Copper, or De- signs and Printing on Stone, will be attend- ed to with care and fidelity, on application at the Establishment in Harvard Place, opposite the Old South. To those whose occasions require Fac Similes, Maps, Cir- culars, &c, to which this art is peculiarly adapted, Specimens will be exhibited, and all information given by applying as above.
ABEL BOWEN respectfully informs his friends and the public that he still continues bis business at No. 2, Congress Square, in Congress Street, where all orders for ENGRAVING AND COPPER-PLATE PRINTING will be thankfully received, and promptly attended.
OLD ADVERTISEMENTS.
A few local advertisements, print- ed in the News-Letter and Boston Gazette, one hundred years ago, are brought before our readers the pres- ent week, in order to show in some degree the business doing in Boston, at a period, so remote. There is not, perhaps, a single individual now liv- ing, who then figured upon the active stage of life ; years roll away, and one generation passes after another, in quick succession. How invaluable is the art of printing, by which we can
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converse with the ancient dead, and survey the works of nations, long after they have ceased to exist !
" rTO be Sold a large double House and Land, with a Ship Yard & Wharff, at the North End of Boston, formerly the Charleston Ferry House. The Ship Yard now in the Possession of Mr. White the Ship Builder, being part of the Estate of Mr. Peter Cutler Deceas'd."
Friday the 28th inst. at 5 a clock in the afternoon will be exposed to Sale by Publick Vendue, at Mr. Selby's Crown Coffee House in King Street, Boston, a new Double House and several other tenements situate in Summer Street, belonging to the estate of Col. Dyer, late of said Boston, deceased. Jan. 24th, 1725."
OR the service of the Town, in the present scarcity of Grain, to be Sold by Mr. William Clark of Boston, Merchant, at Mr. Thomas Kilby's Bake-house near Mr. Calen- dur's Wind Mill, the best Sea Bisket. new and fresh baked at 40s. per Hun- dred, by the Hundred, half Hundred, and Quarter. Feb. 14, 1725."
" MENO be sold by Joshua Henshaw, at the South End of Boston ; A piece of Land at the lower end of Cold Lane, there measuring 52 foot Front, and at the lower end of Sud- bury Street, there measuring 80 foot Front, and 60 foot deep ; and a House and Land at the North End, that Mr. . Mumford the Stone Cutter formerly liv'd in ; and likewise the second House iu Roxbury of the West-side."
EFTVO be Sold a Good Brick House, fronting twenty two feet to Corn- Ilill and twenty-five feet to King- Street. Two good Shops and a back Yard, and other conveniences. In- quire of Mr. Sam'l Bill, who dwells in the same."
" LATELY imported several Negro Boys and Girls. To be sold by. Mr. Joshua Wroe, at his house in Cold Lane."
" INNO be sold, a piece of 'Land fronting Common Street, lying between Col. Winthrop's and the Store House, containing 37 foot front, 40 foot in the Rear, and about 220 deep ; Inquire of Mr. David Mason Upholsterer, at his Shop in Dock Square, Boston. Feb. 28."
" EXTRAORDINARY Good Coffee Ber-
ries, to be sold by Mrs. Proctor in Queen Street, by Wholesale . or Retail."
" THREE likely young new Negro Men to be disposed of, inquire at the Post-Office, where you may be further advised."
" TTR. Benjamin Atkinson, design- ing for Bristol in Great Britain in October next, desires all persons with whom he is concerned to come to his warehouse No. B, in Dr. Cook's Row, in King Street, to settle their several accounts with him before he departs."
LAST Tuesday night some wick- ed and Evil-minded person or persons broke into the Governour's Coach House and maliciously broke the front Glass of his Excellency's Chariot : Whoever can give any in- telligence to Mr. John Boydell at the Governour's House in Boston of the Actor or Actors of so unheard-of vil- lany, so as he or they may be brought to Condign Punishment, shall receive of him a reward of Ten Pounds.
July 19, 1725."
" WHEREAS Dorothy Jackson, wife of John Jackson, Starch- maker hath absent her self from her house and home, ever since the 22d of March last, this is to require her re- turn immediately, and to discharge all people from harbouring her at their peril, and from trusting her on any account soever. April 5, 1725."
N Friday next, being the 29th inst. at 5 a clock in the after- noon, will be sold at the Sun Tavern on Dock Square, sundry sorts of Val- uable Goods, a parcel of Cloathing. one Negro Man, and a few very good Books to begin the sale with.
Oct. 25, 1725."
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HISTORICAL.
LITTLETON, MASS.
We have obtained the copy of a century sermon preached at Littleton, Dec. 4th, 1815, in which there is a general historical record of the town, from its first settlement to the year in which the discourse was delivered. From 1815 till the present date, there have been nó particular alterations in the town, nor any great increase of population.
Such productions become valuable by age, and important to the histori- an, in proportion to the accuracy of their details. Facts are never out of season, any where : a record, without facts, is the poorest of all productions, as it misleads every one who studies its fabulous pages, and destroys all those advantages to society which re- sult from correct views of the past.
This sermon was written and deliv- ered by the aged and Reverend Ed- mund Foster, who was ordained over the church in Littleton in 1781.
It is not our province to criticise the language or doctrine of Mr. Fos- ter's discourse, but so far as we have become acquainted with the memoir which he has prepared for his parish- ioners, it appears to be a plain, unos- tentatious narrative of the town, from an early period-embracing, in a com- prehensive manner, all those incidents of the times, which are the most wor- thy of preservation and which will eventually give character to the place.
" Formerly, Littleton was mostly a gore of land, not included within the limits of any of the extensive and pre- viously incorporated towns around us. In this situation it remained for many years after Concord, Chelmsford, Groton, Stow, and Lancaster were in- corporated. It was then but thinly inhabited by some English people, to- gether with Indians living on their an- cient settlements, and was known by the name of Nashoba.
Mr. Gookin, in his history of Indian tribes, gives the following account of this place :
" Nashoba is the sixth praying In- dian town. This village is situated in a manner in the centre, between Chelmsford, Lancaster, Groton, and Concord, about 25 miles west-north- west from Boston. The inhabitants are about ten families, and consequent- ly about fifty souls. This village is four miles square. The people live here as in Indian villages, upon plant- ing corn, fishing, hunting, and some- times labouring with the English peo- ple. Their ruler of late years was John Ahatawana, a pious man. After his decease, Pennekannet became their chief. Their teacher's name was John Thomas, a sober and pious man. The father of this John (Thomas) was murdered by the Maquas Indians, in a secret manner, as he was fishing for eels at his wear. He was a pious and useful man, and this place was considered as having sustained a great loss in him. In this place are orchards of apples. Near unto this town is a pond, wherein, at some seasons, there is a strange rumbling noise, as the In- dians affirm ; the reason thereof is not yet known. Some have considered the hills adjacent are hollow, wherein the wind being pent, is the cause of this rumbling, as in earthquakes. At this place they attend civil and relig- ious order as in other praying towns ; and they have a constable, and other officers. This town was deserted during the Maquas war, in 1676; but is now again peopled, and in a hope- ful way to prosper." *
The pond above mentioned must be Nagog, probably so called by the Indians, who gave names to most of the remarkable lakes, rivers and ponds on this continent. It lies on the eastern extremity of this town. Most of its waters are within the bounds of Littleton, and the residue of them in Acton.
The report of a strange noise, heard occasionally in this pond, was not without foundation. But the noise was not in the water, as they imagin- ed, but from a hill, lying in a north- west direction, and about half a mile
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
distant from the pond, partly in Little- ton and partly in Westford, known by the name of Nashoba Hill. A rum- bling noise from time to time has been heard from this hill, ever since the settlement of the town: It has been repeated within two years past, and is called the shooting of Nashoba Hill. Whether it be occasioned by the ground being hollow, as Mr. Gookin suggests, or by mineral and other substances lodged in its bowels, is un- certain.
This easterly part of the town still called Nashoba by many, formerly went by the name of Concord Village, which extended on westerly as the road now lies, almost to the common on which the first meeting-house stood. Whether it was so named, because a portion of the land belonged to Con- cord before this town was incorpora- ted, or from some other circumstance, is unknown. At the south-easterly part of the town, and on the northerly side of a pond lying there, the Indians erected and maintained a fort, which gave to the waters adjoining the name of Fort Pond. The fort was built on an elevated spot of ground, occupied and improved by the Indians, accord- ing to their manner of cultivation. The principal owner, or oldest pos- sessor of this plot of ground was an Indian by the name of Spean : and the land is known to this day by the name of Spean's field. The oldest apple- tree in the memory of the inhabitants of Littleton, and probably the first grown in the town, was found standing on this field. Though it bore the marks of age and of some partial de- cay, yet it remained alive and continu- ed to bear fruit, till the twenty-third day of September, 1815, when it was blown down by the violent gale on that memorable day. The number and names of the first English inhabi- tants, in this place, and the precise time of their settling in it, are not dis- tinctly known. There were probably some English settlers in the town, as early as 1642, when the people in Connecticut and Massachusetts were alarmed by a report, that under the
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