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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
next superior court. How the affair ended does not appear, but probably a prosecution did not take place, as he procured five respectable persons to testify to the truth of the contents of the paragraph.
Fleet had a peculiar faculty in word- ing his advertisements. The follow- ing appeared in his paper, April 1758.
"To be sold by the printer of this paper, a Negro Man about thirty years old, who can do both town and coun- try business very well, but will suit the country best, where they have not so many dram shops as we have in Boston. He has work'd at the Print- ing Business fifteen or sixteen years ; can handle an Ax, Saw, Spade, Hoe, or other instrument of husbandry as well as most men, and values himself, and is valued by others, for his skill in cookery and making of soap."
In June of the same year, in a dun- ning advertisement to bis customers, he adds, " In the days of Mr. Camp- bell, who published a newspaper here, which is forty years ago, paper was bought for eight or nine shillings a Ream, and now it is five pounds ; his paper was never more than half a sheet, and that he had two dollars a year for, and had also the art of getting his pay for it ; and that size has con- tinued till within a little more than one year, since which we are expected to publish a whole sheet, so that the pa- per now stands us in near as much as all the other charges." He did not inform his readers that the paper cur- rency had depreciated.
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Fleet continued to publish the Evening Post until he died in 175S. His sons, Thomas and John, in co- partnership, continued it with much approbation, till April 1775, when the revolutionary war commencing, occa- sioned its immediate termination.
(To be continued. )
Harvard University .- At a meeting of the Board of Overseers on the 9th inst. the Hon. FRANCIS C. GRAY Was elected to fill the vacancy in the Cor- poration of Harvard University, occa- sjoned by the resignation of the Rev. Ur, CHANNING.
REVOLUTIONARY OFFICERS.
We copy from the Village Record, the following Notices of the principal American Officers engaged in our re- volutionary war.
There are few, I presume, that hear of the achievement of distinguished men without forming some idea of their persons and features, and it is always pleasing to know whether the reality answers to the idea. I have therefore made some inquiry respect- ing the persons of the most active of- ficers of the American army, engaged in those operations which it has been a part of our task to describe : and as I believe that you are not incurious upon this subject, I will without hes- itation communicate what I have learned.
WASHINGTON has been described so often that his whole appearance must be familiar from our infancy. I cannot, however, pass by so imposing a figure entirely unnoticed. With a person six feet two inches in stature, expanded, muscular, of elegant pro- portions, and usually graceful in all its movements-his head moulded some- what on the model of Grecian antique ; -features sufficiently prominent for strength or comeliness-a Roman nose and large blue eyes, deeply thought- ful, rather than lively ; with these at- tributes, the appearance of Washing- ton was striking and august. A fine complexion being superadded, he was accounted, when young, one of the handsomest of men .- But his majesty consisted in the expression of his countenance, much more than in his comely features, his lofty person, or his dignified deportment. It was the emanation of his great spirit through the tenement it occupied.
MAJ. GEN. GREEN in person, was rather corpulent, and above the com- mon size ; his complexion was fair and florid ; his countenance serene and mild, indicating a goodness which seemed to shade and soften the fire and greatness of its expression. His health was delicate, but preserved by temperance and regularity.
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AND CITY RECORD, FEB. 18, 1826.
GEN. SULLIVAN was a man of short stature, well formed and active ; his complexion dark-his nose prominent, his eyes black and piercing, and his face altogether agreeable and well formed.
LORD STERLING was short and thick set ; somewhat pursy and cor- pulent. His face was red, and looked as though coloured by brandy, rather than sun burnt, and his appearance in no manner either military or com- manding.
GEN. MAXWELL was about the com- mon size, without any thing peculiar ei- ther in the features or expression of his face. He was a man of merit, though of obscure origin. His manners were not conciliatory, and it was his misfor- tune to be left at variance with his offi- cers.
GEN. WAYNE was about the middle size, with a fine ruddy countenance, commanding port, with eagle eye. His looks corresponding well with his character ; indicating a soul noble, ardent and daring. At this time, 'he was about 32 years of age ; a period of life, which perhaps as much as any other, blends the graces of youth with the majesty of manhood. In inter- course with his officers and men, he was affable and agreeable, and had the art of communicating to their bosoms, the gallant and chivalrous spirit which glowed in his own.
GEN. LAFAYETTE was one of the finest looking men in the army, not- withstanding his deep red hair, which then as now, was rather in disrepute. His forehead was fine, though reced- ing ; his eye clear and hazel ; his month and chin delicately formed, and exhibiting beauty rather than strength. The expression of his coun- tenance was strongly indicative of the generous and gallant spirit which ani- mated him, mingling with something of the pride of conscious manliness. His mien was noble ; his manners frank and amiable, and his movements light and graceful. He wore his hair plain, and never complied so far with the fashion of the times as to powder.
COL. MORGAN was stout and active ; six feet in height ; not too much en- cumbered with flesh, and exactly fitted for the toils and pomp of war. The features of his face were strong and manly, and his brow thoughtful. His manners plain and decorous, neither insinuating nor repulsive ; his conver- sation grave, sententious and consider- ate, unadorned and uncaptivating.
COL. HAMILTON is thus described by Mr. Delaplaine : -- " Although in person below the middle stature, and somewhat deficient in elegance of fig- ure, Hamilton possessed a very strik- ing and manly appearance. By the most superficial observers he could never be regarded as a common indi- vidual. His head was large, formed on the finest model, resembling some- what the Grecian antique. His fore- head was spacious and elevated ; his nose projecting, but inclining to the aquiline ; his eyes grey, keen at all times, and when animated by debate, intolerably piercing ; and his mouth and chin well proportioned and hand- some. These two latter, although his strongest, were his most pleasing fea- tures ; yet the form of his mouth was expressive of eloquence, more espec- ially of persuasion. He was remark- able for a deep depression between his nose and forehead and a contrac- tion of his brows, which gave to the upper part of his countenance an air of sternness. The lower part was an emblem of mildness and benignity.
MAJ. HENRY LEE, one of the most vig- ilant and active partisan officers in the American army, was short in stature, and of slight make, but agile and ac- tive. Ilis face was small and freck- led ; his looks eager and sprightly. He was then quite young, and his ap- pearance was even more youthful than his years.
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
A course of Lectures on Natural and Revealed Religion, by Alden Brad- ford, Esq. late Secretary of this Com- monwealth, commenced on Sunday evening last, at the Pantheon Hall.
At a meeting of the Proprietors of the Boylston Market, held on Mon- day the 6th inst., the following gentle- men were chosen Directors for the year ensuing : Josiah Knapp, J. W. Foster, Thomas Brewer, and Josiah Stedman.
The Prize of twenty dollars, offered by the Editors of the Ladies Album, for the best written poem on Charity, has been awarded to Mrs. SARAH J. HALE, of Newport, N. H.
A Stage Coach driver named Brown, lately a resident of Salem, on the line between Concord and Groton, Mass. was found frozen stiff upon his box, on Tuesday night, Jan. S1, holding the reins in his hand. He was dead. and the reins clinched so fast. that they were obliged to be cut, before they could be extricated from his grasp.
The trial of Hosea Sargent and Barney Cook, indicted for being par- ties in the riot which took place on the 27th of July last, in the north part of the city, came on for trial on the 6th inst. in the Supreme Court, 'in this county, upon an appeal from the Mu- nicipal Court ; and after a full hear- ing, they were severally acquitted by a verdict of the jury. Solicitor General, counsel for Commonwealth ; Morse for Sargent, and Whitman, for Cook.
One of the party of "about forty unknown people dressed like Indians,"' who boarded the ship Eleanor, in Bos- ton, in 1773, and threw overboard 114 chests of tea, now lives in Cincin- nati, Ohio. He is, says the Crisis, a temperate, hardy old veteran, supports his family by the sweat of his brow, and often boasts of the 'Boston Tea Party.'
Extreme Cold .-- The mercury at Quebec, on the morning of the 1st inst. fell to forty-two degrees below zero, and at half-past 7 o'clock, stood at 38.
New Brunswick .- The St. John Courier contains a list of more than a hundred vessels built in the province of New Brunswick within the last year, of which one was of 698 tons burthen, seven from 400 to 600 tons, twenty- five from 3 to 400 tons, twenty-eight from 2 to 300 tons, twenty from 1 to 200 tons, and twenty-one from 25 to 100 tons. This shows a great increase in this branch of business within the province.
CITY RECORD.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
Monday, Feb. 6 .-- Ordered that two hundred dollars be advanced to the Council for the City in the case to be tried at Dedham against the Proprie- tors of a Wharf from Mill Pond land in Charles river, to pay the expense of carrying on said suit.
Thursday, Feb. 9 .- Order of the Common Council committing the pe- tition of Andrew Campbell for addi- tional pay as school master in the House of Industry. Committed to Messrs. Lerow, James and Fenno, joined by Messrs. Loring and Jackson.
Order of the Common Council committing the petition of John Thompson and others praying that a street may be laid out from Common to Pleasant St. and an engine placed in the neighbourhood. Committed to Messrs. Morey, Bassett and Dorr ; con- curred and Aldermen Bellows and Oliver are joined.
The committee who were directed to carry the report of the City Coun- cil into effect, directing the sale of a lot of land heretofore purchased of Thomas McClure, reported that said lot was sold to John Green, Jr. for $294 72 more than its original cost.
Petition of Edward Clarke and others praying that Kilby, Central, Water and Liberty streets, and Liber- ty Square may be furnished with names to be placed at the corners, and a sufficient number of lamps erec- ted. Committed to Alderman Bellows and Robbins, to report.
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AND CITY RECORD, FEB. 18, 1826.
The committee of the City Council who were directed to consider and re- port some practicable plan, by which juvenile offenders of both sexes may be reformed as well as punished, for the commission of petty crimes. (Re- ported as on file.) Read in Common Council and the resolves passed, and it was thereupon ordered that the same committee be authorized to apply to the Legislature for the powers men- tioned in the third resolve; read and concurred except in the first resolve, and as to that this board non concur with the Common Council.
Alfred Osgood was nominated and appointed a fireman in Ward No. 3.
Messrs. James Clark and Charles Wells were appointed Engineers in the place of Messrs. John Farrie Jr. and Flavel Mosely who declined serv- ing
Monday, Feb. 13 .- Flavel Case was nominated and appointed Cap- tain of the City Watch and Superin- tendent of Lamps.
Petition of the City Guards to have their Armoury in Faneuil Hall enlarg- ed. Committed to Aldermen Oliver and Loring.
Communication from the Auditor of Accounts relative to the money neces- sary to be raised for the expenditure of the ensuing year. Ordered that the several committees of districts furnish the amount of money necessary for paving and repairs of pavement.
Ordered, that the Mayor, Alder- men Bellows and Oliver, be a commit- tee on the fire department.
Ordered, that the firemen heretofore chosen for Ward No. 10, be transfer- red to Ward No. 8, agreeable to their own request, and that Charles Hast- ings's name be substituted for that of Edwin Bryant.
The board proceeded to elect and appoint two engineers of the fire de- partment in place of Messrs. Brewster Reynolds and Thomas B. Curtis, who declined serving, and Messrs. Nathan Viles and Mark Ware were elected and appointed in their place.
Ordered, that the committee of Neck lands take into consideration the
expediency of making sale of any part of the City's lands lying on the west side of Washington street, and that they lay before the City Council for their consideration, the number of the lots they may think proper for the in- terest of the City to be sold, and the mode, the time and the terms on which said sale shall take place. Con- curred.
Petition of Thos. K. Jones and oth- ers for the continuation of Brush Hill turnpike to meet the southern extrem- ity of Front Street, committed to the Committee of Neck lands, with power to cause such surveys to be made of all the marsh and flats lying in and about South Boston Bay, so called, from the southern extremity of Front Street, as well as that part belonging to individuals as to the city, and also the upland and marsh lying easterly of Washington Street to Roxbury up- land. Sent down for concurrence.
IN COMMON COUNCIL.
Monday, Feb. 13 .- Petition of a Committee of the Vigilant Fire Socie- ty referred in the board of Aldermen to the Committee who have under consideration the petition of the Co- lumbian Eagle Fire Society to consid- er and report. Concurred.
The communication from the direc- tors of the House of Industry on the subject of a further appropriation, was called up and committed to the Com- mittee of Finance to consider and re- port.
The Committee on Rules and Orders reported the Rules and Orders of the last year with sundry amendments. Read and after being further amended, the report was accepted and the same committee was authorized to have them printed for the use of the men- bers.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
CHIEF ENGINEER.
SAMUEL DEVENS HARRIS, EsQ.
ENGINEERS.
To take rank in the order in which they are arranged, viz : Daniel C. Bacon, George Darracott, Gerry Fair-
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
banks, Simon Wilkinson, John Cand- | Ball, Alanson Smith, Wm. H. Cary, ler, Mark Ware, Alexander H. David Kimball, R. G. Walker, B. P. Greenough, John A. Merritt, B. S. Chase, John C. Furber. Gibbs, William Tileston, Joel Prouty. Thomas H. Perkins Jr., Wm. H. Prentice, Samuel F. Coolidge, Benja- min Darling, James Clark, Horace Fox, Henry Fowle Jr., Joseph C. Emery, Chas. Wells, Nathan Viles, Alpheus Stetson.
FIREMEN.
For Ward No. 1 .- Charles Brint- nal, Matthew Hunt, Thomas Dew- hurst, Isaac R. Butts, John A. Eaton, John Simpkins, George W. Johnson, David Parker, Nath'l Clark, Delmont Locke, William Knapp, John Center. Wm. W. Colesworthy, Jacob Barstow, Joseph Austin, Jr., Charles A. Brown, Thomas Crocker, Curtis Stearns, Isaac F. Rowe, Ninian C. Betton, Ed- ward Bell, Eben. H. Little, Zephani- ah Sampson, Joseph M. Leavit, Thom- as White.
For Ward No. 2 .- Henry Fowle, Jr., John Hobbs, Isaac Hall, James Nesmith, Charles French, Joseph Francis, George Low, Nathaniel Budd, John Davis, Joseph E. Andrews, Hen- ry C. Smith, Isaac Fowle, Zenos Snow, Francis Merrifield, William Munroe, Alfred Wood, Jr., Erasmus Thomp- son, Stephen Rhodes, . Benj. Dodd, Isaac Peirce, Richard Pile, Benj. Abrahams, Reuben T. Robinson, Al- exander Hopkins, Daniel Edes.
For Word No. 3 .- Isaac T. Dupee, Joseph P. Shaw, John Capen, Samuel Gould, Samuel Meek, Edmund Par- sons, Joseph Eustis, James Davis, Warren Lincoln, Geo. A. Sampson, . David W. Barnes, Samuel P. Hey- wood, S. H. Barnes, Otis Daniell, Asa Rhoades, Thomas D. Dyer, Daniel Shillaber, Robert E. Newman, Silas P. Merriam, Geo. Thatcher, Benj. F. Sylvester, Henry Adams, William Tapley, Franklin Nurse, Alfred Os- good.
For Ward No. 4 .- Thomas Water- man, Thomas S. Nichols, Solomon Wildes, W. A. Brigham, Laban Smith, A. Millet, Jr., Alexander S. Riley, Samuel Fisk, E. Atwood, Abraham Mitchell, John Small, Isaiah Atkins, Jacob C. Flint, T. A. Murray, Nathan
For Ward No. 5 .- Wm. C. Stimp- son, Ileman Fay, Wm. T. Waldo, Wm. H. Burbeck, John S. Tyler, Thomas Power, Sam'l. G. Simpkins, Geo. Stearns, 2d. Geo. Lane, Horatio M. Willis, John J. Jerome, Eliphalet Jones, Joseph W. Flint. Josiah Nor- cross, John Mellen, Caleb Whiting, Daniel Brown, John Muzzy, Charles Hersey, Geo. Stearns, Moses Watson, Anson Dexter, John Day, John Ham- mond, Theodore Dickinson.
For Ward No. 6 .-- John H. Bel- cher, C. V. Butler, Wm. Dyer, Cor- nelius Bird, Francis Ripley, Robert Hale, Jr., Joseph Mead, Henry Good- ing, John Holman, Warren Studley, Reuben Frost, Nathaniel Fisher, George Spinney, G. W. Ward, Josh- ua R. Stanford, John T. Prince, Thos. Haviland, Joseph Tilden, Me- shack R. Tebbets, Arthur Scholfield, John I. Soren, Samuel E. Gardiner, Joseph Lincoln, Caleb Stowel, David Bailey.
For Ward No. 7 .- John A. Bacon, Watson Freeman, Benjamin Freeman, George Spurr, Ebenezer Thayer, George W. Armstrong, James T. Hayward, William Taylor, Charles Hayward. Richard Warren, John M. Marston, Darius Brigham, Samuel Ev- eleth, Jonas Prouty, John W. Harris, Henry H. Barton, James W. Vose, Alpheus Cary, Charles M. Domett, John B. Goodwin, Kilby Page, Charles Lane, Solomon Loud, Henry Beals, Francis W. Dana.
For Ward No. 8 .- Benjamin V. French, Joshua Crane, Geo. W. Thay- er, Robt. T. Paine, Charles F. Kupfer, Jr., John Collamore, Jr., Wm. Fowle, Benj. Yeaton, Wm. Johnson, Erie Poor. Geo. M. Gibbens, Josiah Dan- iell, John J. Brown, Wm. Wyman, Jr., Wm. C. Blanchard, Josiah N. Daniell, Edward Haynes, Jr., N. Capen, Oli- ver Lincoln, Tileston Cushing, Wm. Hardwick, Jona. C. Hubbard, Arte- mas Winchester, Richard A. Newell.
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BOSTON : SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1826.
Nomination .- A legislative Caucus, composed of all parties, has nomina- ted Gov. Lincoln, for re-election, and the Hon. Thomas L. Winthrop, as a candidate for Lieut. Governor. The Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee declined be- ing considered a candidate.
The Governor and council of this Commonwealth have appointed Thurs- day, the sixth of April next, a day of public fast, humiliation and prayer.
Friday, March the third, is fixed by the governor and council for the execution of O'Halloran, convicted of the murder of Mr. Houghton, one of City watchmen.
Wednesday last, the birthday of the immortal Washington, was announc- ed by the firing of heavy artillery at morning, noon and night. The Wash- ington Artillery celebrated the day according to their usual custom. The Washington Light Infantry and Wins- low Blues had a splendid ball at Con- cert Hall in the evening. The deco- rations of the hall were chaste, martial and beautiful. The Rangers, also had a ball in honor of the day, at the Ex- change, Mr. Greenwood illuminated the New England Museum and made every exertion to entertain his numer- ous visiters. Governor Lincoln, from fatigue or slight indisposition, was un- able to attend ; we noticed, however, several of the Hon. Council, the pres- ident of the Senate and other distin- guished members of the legislature, who honoured the invitation of the lib- eral proprietor of this interesting estab- lishment. Federal Street Theatre also made unusual exertion to please a fashionable audience, and Mr. and Mrs. Barrett acquitted themselves with peculiar success.
Mr. Barrett's benefit, on Monday evening last, was a bouncer, for which he must feel a spark of gratitude. In
light, genteel comedy he is alway, at home, and makes his visiters so.
Perhaps there is not a port of entry in the United States which has receiv- ed more Mummies, since they became a fashionable article of importation, than Boston. Besides the many which have been announced for exhibition, sold at auction, &c. from time to time, there are several more stowed away in a snug apartment in Broad street, in perfect readiness for the curious, the moment the old ones cease to be a novelty. A room is appropriated for four or five of those ancient human remains, with their sarcophagi, in the Museum-the operating theatre at the Massachusetts Hospital -- and several antiquarians of modern manufacture are now engaged in unwinding the fif- ty and two bandages which envelope a new arrival from the catacombs of Thebes.
The prize poem delivered at the Hubard Gallery, was a good thing, written by a good poet, who has taken many good premiums before this, for his good midnight lucubrations .- Mr. Thomas Wells, as well as his lady, are beautiful writers, who never fail of be- ing No. one, when writing for a medal. A second recitation is in contempla- tion.
Cherry and Fair Star, a popular, new Melo-Dramatic Romance, is an- nounced for Monday evening's enter- tainment at the Theatre.
The head of a New-Zealand Chief is exhibited at the Hubard Gallery .-- These sort o'things are quite com- mon, and may be found in the private collections of half a dozen gentlemen in the City. Query. How would it do to to export the heads of some of our own chiefs, to New Zealand ?
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