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One Mrs. Hacket, who was once the celebrated Miss Leesugg, (a long time ago, by the way) will shortly ap- pear at the Park Theatre, New-York, before a fashionable audience.
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
again, till we hear he has been well trounced for quarrelsome propensities, recently shot a pistol loaded with a ball, at Mr. Carter, in a Hotel. The bullet entered his side, but he is pro- nounced out of danger.
Somebody, unknown, shipped the body of a black woman at Baltimore, which arrived safely at No. 171, South street, New York. The coroner has got a finger in the pye, and the surgeons are likely to lose a prize.
A gang of black boys have been de- tected in Norfolk, who were associated in stealing at an extensive rate. Among other things, they robbed apotheca- ries, but there is nothing said about their taking the drugs.
Much has been written in the Bos- ton papers, lately, upon the subject of Right of Appeal, from the Municipal to a higher Court. We shall notice the matter hereafter ; at present, we believe the beginners of this disturb- ance need a 'pealing.
Richard White and Joseph Cutler, two notorious rascals, have just been committed by the Police Court, for thefts in Central Street.
An inquest held in Stafford County, decided that a coloured woman in Fredericksburg, came to her death by excessive whipping. Horrible deprav- ity in a master, in a boasted land of liberty ! ! We wish the law would pun- ish the master by putting him to the same torture ; this would soon melio- rate the melancholy condition of slaves the world over.
Mr. Jefferson, one of the Ex-Presi- dents of the United States, has peti- tioned the legislature of Virginia, for leave to dispose of his property at Monticello, by lottery, to relieve his em- barrassments. A writer in some paper at the south, proposes a subscription for his relief. It is certainly a curious fact that Mr. Monroe, Mr. Adams, sen. Mr. Madison and Mr. Jefferson are poor men, notwithstanding the elevation to which they have been raised. What
a glorious comment is this upon our country ! the highest officer in the Union, comes dowa from the loftiest seat in the gift of an independent na- tion, to common life-and poor. They can never suffer while there is one remaining feeling of patriotism in the bosom of an American. Let it stand recorded for the wonder and ad- miration of future ages, that the guar- dians of their rights were honest men, and were therefore poor ; their names will live when the wealth of a conti- nent is lost in the downfall of contend- ing empires.
We hope that the same liberality which has been extended to the gener- ous Lafayette, will also be manifest- ed towards these patriarchs of the rev olution.
Auction duties .- The following amounts of auction duty were paid by the auctioneers in this city, for the six months preceding the 1st of De- cember last.
Whitwell, Bond & Co. $6023 65
Coolidge, Poor & Head, 4772 25
T. K. Jones & Co., 1390 76
J. Peabody & Co., 727 20
John Fairfield, 519 77
F. E. White, 467 87
J. L. Cunningham, 465 03
Stephen Brown, 464 79
George G. Channing, 392 22
David Hale, 167 59
T. M. Baker, 97 72
J. A. Bacon, 59 64
G L. Deblois, 46 56
Four others, 63 96
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Cold days since 1810 .- Cold Fri- day, January 19, 1810 .- Tuesday, January 21, 1815 .- Friday, February 14, 1817 .- Wednesday, January 24, 1821 .- Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1825 .- Tuesday, January 13, 1826 .- Wednes- day, February 1, 1826.
It appears by the new census, that there are upwards of 29,000 more males than females in the State of New-York.
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NANTUCKET IN THE DARK.
If there is a genuinely shrewd edi- itor in the Isle of Nantucket (for there is but one) it must be Mr. Jenks ;- and if there is one in the union who directs his wit more heroically at the mal-administration of individuals, towns. and corporations, with good intent to reform abuses, this same industrious and accomplished conductor of the Nantucket Enquirer, is the man.
The very spot, of all others,-not where whales are manufactured, but where their oil makes almost the sole trade of the inhabitants, is in utter darkness, as often as there happens to be a dark night : not, however, from a want of combustible matter, where- with to make a flame, but from an absolute want of liberality. This must stand recorded as a disgraceful fact, that Nantucket has oil to sell, but none to burn in her own benighted streets An age of darkness this, in Nantucket ! For the honour of that respectable place, we hope they will no longer grope their way by the light of their noses, lest the same Sachem who made the Island with the ashes of his pipe, offended at the parsimony of the pos- sessors of the soil, should puff the smoke of his wrath over their heads and hide the luminary which favours their covetous dispositions thro' the day.
LITERARY CASKET.
Connecticut has been celebrated from an era beyond the birth of the never-to-be-forgotten blue laws, for good things of all descriptions. Even her silver-tin kitchens, and wooden nutmegs were excellent of their kind ; her deacons have been proverbially pi- ous from time immemorial ; her lite- rature has been of sterling importance, and her sons have inherited from gen- eration to generation, a goodly share of that best of all sense,-common sense, which will render them respec- table in the annals of the state, when shad have forsaken the Connecticut river, and Simsbury mines are con- verted into an Atheneum.
A paper, christened the 'Literary Casket,' has been politely forwarded
to our office, that was issued at Hart- ford on Saturday last, possessing all those rare qualities, combined, which constitute something more than a lite- rary periodical treat. Now we cannot afford time to read every thing which comes to hand, but this beautifully ex- ecuted, original Casket of gems, de- voted to literature, the arts and the sciences, has quite bewitched our sen- ses : indeed, were it not for confessing our neglect of other business, we should say we have read every column of the Casket with increasing interest. Such a publication does honour to the City in which it is published, and it will do more for those who patronise Mr. B. H. Norton and John Russell, at No. 3 Central Row, Hartford, Con- . necticut, by paying two dollars a year in advance.
LIBERTY TREE.
In making a few enquiries in one of the carly numbers of the Record, we had a strong hope that some antiqua- rian of Rhode Island would have grat- ified our curiosity in relation to the fa- mous Liberty Tree; but there has been no manifestation of a disposition to collect any facts, which might eluci- date its history in Newport. How strange it is that people who dwell upon the very ground which has be- come distinguished abroad, for the seat of important historical data, are the least curious of all beings, in preserv- ing those minute facts, which give character to the place, as well as trans- action ! This is the poorest trait in human character-that enterprise ceas- es with possession. Antiquarians in Europe may undoubtedly have been at infinite pains to ascertain certain events and localities in the history of the United States, which the very men who have resided there three score and ten years upon the identical spot in question, never considered an ob- ject of interest. Thus it is with the literati in Newport, and from this cause, and not from natural indolence, or from the waining condition of that once flourishing town, are we to ac- count for such apathy on the subject of the Liberty Tree.
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
ROXBURY STAGE COACH.
A correspondent of the Palladium informs the public that some spirited and enterprising gentlemen in Roxbu- ry have agreed to establish a Stage Coach between that town and our city, which is to leave each place every other hour in the day .- Such a con- veyance has long been wanted. Ma- ny of our citizens, who have not suffi- cient means to purchase or hire a large and airy house in the city, will be glad to find the access to Roxbury, where rents are comparatively low, and fresh air and fresh water abundant, so cheap and easy. It is understood the fare is to be only ninepence each way, and a man of business may locate him- self in Roxbury without inconvenience to his affairs for the moderate sum of seventy eight dollars per annum, and ride in and out every day under the present arrangement, instead of being subjected to the inconvenience and greater expense of keeping a horse and chaise, or the still more inconve- nient, though less expensive, manner of going afoot.
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Every thing which has been done for a long course of years for the im- provement of Boston, by making new avenues to the city, has been done in some degree at the expense of Roxbu- ry .- She formerly enjoyed a large share of Country trade, which, by these means, has been nearly ruined. Within a few years, however, her citi- zens seem to have found new sources of employment and profit, and the hand of improvement is now visible there in all directions. She has now in operation two Rope Walks-a Rum Distillery-a Turpentine Distillery- a large Carpet Manufactory-a num- ber of works for Soap and Candles- Tan-yards-a Paint Manufactory, and a variety of other manufactories -- all furnishing employment for a great ma- ny hands, and use for a vast deal of capital. Many of the citizens are also extensively concerned in navigation and other business which requires dai- Jy attention in the city, and an hourly coach must greatly promote her prosperity by inducing others to locate
in a place so healthy and pleasant, be- sides adding to the facilities of those already engaged in business there.
LORD BALTIMORE'S CLAIM.
The legislature of Maryland has voted to employ counsel to contest the claims prosecuted in the courts of the United States, by Mr. Browning, the heir at law of Lord Baltimore, against the landholders of that state, for quit rents. Most of the lands of Maryland, granted by the lord proprietors before the revolution, were granted with a reservation of an annual rent of four shillings sterling for every hundred acres. Lord Baltimore's rents, amounting to thirteen or fourteen thou- sand pounds sterling per annum, were regularly paid, semi-annually or annu- ally, to receivers residing in each coun- ty, to the year 1771 ; and it is alleg- ed by the claimant, that they have not been paid since. In the year 1780 the legislature by law abolished the quit rents from the 4th of July, 1776. The heir of Lord Baltimore now claims as a debt which he is entitled to recover under the treaty of 1783, the rents due for the nine years from 1771 to 1780, the aggregate amount of which is three or four hundred thousand dol- lars. The claim being against individ- ual landholders for small amounts, the legislature has thought it reasonable that the state should incur the charge of making a defence to the suits which have been brought .- Repertory. .
BIOGRAPHICAL ITEMS.
A correspondent of the Centinel has furnished the editor of that paper with the following catalogue of those distinguished men who received their early education in the Boston free schools. Every Bostonian will be proud to acknowledge their talents, and the rising generation may well be ambitious to emulate their virtues.
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AND CITY RECORD, FEB. 25, 1826.
commit to your respectable paper, their names and various titles and pro- fessions. Other classes may have far surpassed it in sundry important res- pects ; but the stations and offices sus- tained by this small association of BOSTON BOYS exceeds in variety, at least, every other Class, which has preceded or followed it. It presents to our view, (including different offices and titles annexed to the same person,) in the list of twenty-eight received in- to its bosom, during its school-period of seven years, terminating July, 1773, viz. :
An Admiral of the white, Isaac Coffin.
A Lieutenant-General, David Och- terlony.
A Major (probably now Lieut.) General, Hugh Mackay Gordon.
A Colonel of Artillery, *Constant Freeman, soon advanced to a higher class.
A Lieut. Col. Commandant, *Sam- uel Bradford.
A Judge of Probate, *Thomas Dawes.
A Judge of the Municipal, and of the Supreme Court. The same.
A Judge of the Inferior Court, *Samuel Cooper.
A Notary Public. The same.
A Knight of the Bath, Sir David Ochterlony.
Two Baronets, Sir Isaac Coffin, and Sir Scrope Bernard Morland.
Two Members of British Parlia- ment, I. C. and S B. M .- above.
Three Members of the State Legis- lature, *T. Dawes, T. K. Jones, and *James Prince ; to which I may prob- ably add, Samuel Bradford.
Two Civil Marshalls of United States, S. Bradford and J. Prince.
One High Sheriff, Bradford.
Two Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, T. Dawes and James Freeman.
Three Members of the Historical Society, Thomas Walcut, J. Freeman, (two of its principal founders,) and Jonathan Homer
One Oxford Doctor of Laws, S. B. Morland.
One Secretary of a learned [Rum- ford] Institution. The same.
One Doctor of Divinity, who, but for a dissenting creed, might probably have added a Bishop to the preceding variety, James Freeman.
Two Clergymen, of diferent de- nominations, brothers by marriage, and by an unbroken friendship of ma- ny years, James Freeman and Jona- than Homer.
Two Physicians, *William Green- leaf and *Shirley Erving.
One Fellow of the Massachusetts Medical Society, S. Erving.
Besides the above gentlemen, the class contained sundry persons, whose early death, or whose profession in life did not admit of the titles or offi- ces of some of their friends. Of these were the following :-
*Daniel Johonnot, Merchant; * Ben- jamin Bethune, Captain in the British Army; * Charles Apthorp Wheel- wright, Merchant ; * William Davis, Merchant ; * John Gill, who died very young ; * Robert M'Neil, Thomas Fletcher, Jon. D. Robbins, and Jacob Eustis, Merchants ; * Samuel New- man, Captain, slain in battle with the Indians, under Gen. St. Clair ; John Erving, Navigator ; Thomas Temple Fenton, raised to a respectable civil and lucrative office in England, through the recommendatory influence of his Harvard College class-mate, Ru- fus King, American Ambassador ; also, *John Laughton, Merchant.
N. B. Twenty of the above list of twenty-eight persons appear to have been living in 1816, fifty years after the commencement of the School Class .-- Thirteen of the twenty-eight, nearly a moiety, is supposed to be alive in 1825, at the age of 66 or 67.
It has been the happy lot of the mil- itary gentlemen, adopted and called into high office by our once mother country, Great Britain, that not one of them has been called, in a single instance, to unsheath his sword against his native country in the course of the two wars which have occurred be- tween the two nations.
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
and no other man, FAYETTE not ex- cepted, is more affectionately devoted to his native city, than Sir ISAAC Cor- FIN, or rejoices more in the true glory of the New England States, in partic- ular. During the late unhappy war, by his personal applications, sundry Americans, Coffin by name, prisoners, were speedily restored to their families in Nantucket. Sir Isaac has repeated- ly visited Boston, to enjoy the view of his native rising city and its society, among whom are several of his kin- dred, of very respectable characters. -Besides his repeated and very liber- al benefactions to the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, he has lately sent an affectionate CLASS TOKEN, a valuable collection of learned Theo- logical Books to a clerical classmate. Hle cannot forget those affectionate public toasts among us, which have been repeatedly associated with his name. The ensuing Summer will probably give his friends the gratifica- tion of a renewed visit, which was lately his intention.
It may be proper to add, that the same personal activity and attention to strict discipline, which have distin- guished the United States Naval Com- manders, have been displayed by him, when in actual service. Ilis carly knowledge of the American character, and of the circumstance that pressed, or old men, or boys, did not go to form our crews, led him to predict to the British Admiralty, the issue of a rencounter between the frigates of the respective countries ; and the speedy capture of the Guerriere by the Con- stitution under HULL, the protege from boyhood of his much loved vete- ran and gallant uncle, the late Gene- ral, confirmed the prediction. Among the acts of Sir ISAAC's courage and humanity, was the memorable cir- cumstance occurring in 1798, when, upon the report on the ship's deck, that a sailor was overboard, " the Commander, clothes and hat on, with the end of the deep-sea line in hand, jumped into the sea, swam to him, at- tached the line to his person, and thereby saved his life."
ADDITIONAL NOTE. Just as the above was finished for the Centinel, the melanbholy tidings arrived, that Lieutenant General Sir DAVID OCH- TERLONY, one of the most popular Generals ever known in the British army, has closed an honorable life in the East Indies.
T. K. JONES, at whose hospitable house and table, some years since, his classmates joyfully met their early and beloved associate, on a visit to Boston, and ISAAC COFFIN, were, successively, at the head of
THE LATIN CLASS OF 1766 -- 1773.'
* Those names to which an asterisk [*] is prefixcd are deceased.
- For the News Letter and City Record.
THE MARINE TELEGRAPH. Mr. Editor,
In a late number of the " Record," some remarks were made upon that useful establishment, the Marine Tel- egraph at the Observatory, Central Wharf ..... As you requested a further illustration of the Telegraphic Science, I have subjoined a few observations which may be found interesting to your readers ; with the intention of showing the importance it is to the prosperity of our country, if carried to the perfection of which it will be shown to be susceptible .- In theory it appears to have made great prog- ress, but in practice little has been done.
The history of the Telegraphic science as far as the ancients were ac- quainted with it, states, that the Ro- man Generals made use of Telegraphs, or fire signals ; among the Chinese, Scythians and Gauls, and by almost all the barbarous nations, such signals were prevalent. Polybius gives the name of Pyrsia to telegraphing, meaning that fires were the means made use of. He gives a full account of a Telegraph invented by Cleoxenes and improved by himself. It was a mode of indicating the letters of the Greek Alphabet by the display of torches. It would appear that each letter required two torch signals, and that the communication was made be-
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tween two stations only. In the day| time flags were substituted for torches, which shortened the progress consid- erably. We hear very little of Tele- graphs till 1663, when the Marquis of Worcester describes a species of day and night lettering plans. About 40 years afterwards Monsieur Amon- tons recommended the holding up cf large letters to be viewed through tel- escopes and communicated from station to station. Little more was done un- til the French invented their indica- tors, which were semisphoric wings, that could be put into seven distinct positions ; thus originated a variety of descriptions of semaphors, all differ- ing from each other in principle, of degree of power, and mechanical con- trivance.
In 1781, Dupuis in France invent- ed a Telegraph which was improved by an ingenious monk of the order of Citeaux ; Milli, Condorcet, and Dr. Franklin, recommended it to the French Government. A Monsieur Chappee modified the principle of this invention, and introduced the Telegraph, which with others was made use of during the revolutionary period. It was judged that shutters, as recommended by Lord George Murray, were better adapted to the nature of the climate of England, than arms : it being supposed that a cer- tain number of shutters would be bet- ter seen than the same number of arms acting conjointly.
Various experiments have been made in England, and a Land Tele- graph was set up by Government in a chain of stations from the admiralty office to the sea-coast. It consisted of | six octagon boards, each of which was poised upon an axis in a frame, in such a manner, that it could be placed vertically so as to appear with its full size to the observer at the nearest sta- tion, or it becomes invisible to him by being placed horizontally, so that the narrow edge is from a distance invisi- ible. The original system of tele- graphing was performed by the letter- ing plan, wherein the alphabet was divided into sections, each of which,
by means of a semisphoric arm, were distinguished. Later experience has abandoned this tedious manner of con- veying intelligence, and a series of numbers has been substituted, agreea- bly to a Numerical Telegraphic Dic- tionary of sentences, words and sylla- bles, embracing great comprehension, power and despatch ; being applicable to Commercial, Naval, Political and Civil purposes. Such have been the improvements made in this interesting and truly useful science.".
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