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A resolve passed uniting Water and Liberty Streets, under the name of the Water Street, and authorizing the Mayor to cause the same to be num- bered.
Ordered, that the proprietor of the estate now occupied by Geo. Domett, corner of Portland and Hanover streets, be notified to remove the door steps, the same being in the highway.
A communication from John Gray, relative to repairs of his house, in Hanover St. Ordered that the sum of $1250 be paid for repairs of said house.
On account of several petitioners, ordered that the Common Sewer in Federal Street, be taken up and re- paired.
Notice was received of the intention of the Company of the Boston Marine Railway, were about erecting buildings on Ann St. near Battery Wharf.
Notice was received that Geo. Dom- ett is about building in Washington St. opposite the head of Franklin St. Benj. Willis gave notice of his inten- tion of building in Sheaf St. Noah Lincoln also, is about building in Ann Street.
A petition of Hill & Flint, praying the tax, assessed last year, should be remitted, they being without property.
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Ordered, that the workmen on Pem- berton's Hill, in levelling. &c., be di- rected to proceed in said work, imme- diately.
A petition was received, praying +o have Washington Street, near Boylston Market, widened.
The committee on quarantine, on account of the Health Commissioner. praying for some repairs on the Quar- antine buildings, &c was granted.
The committee on Quarantine, in- closing a schedule of property on Rainsford Island, reported to have the same put on file.
A committee reported in favour of paying Henry Lincoln one dollar and seventy-five cents for each square foot of his land, taken to widen Portland Street.
A communication was received, re- lating to the late Daniel D. Rogers, concerning an allowance for land tak- en from his estate.
A petition was received, praying to have Cooper St. widened.
In relation to taking down Elisha Penniman & Co.'s store, it was agreed to postpone the business, by their de- sire, till the 20th of June.
Ordered, that the inhabitants be no- tified to meet in their respective wards, on Monday, April 3d, for the purpose of voting for State officers, and Sena- tors for Suffolk County, also for a Register of Deeds. Also, particularly, to notify the citizens of Ward No. 4, to choose by ballot, an Overseer ofthe Poor, for said Ward. The poll to be kept open from 11 A. M. till 3 P. M.
Order of the Common Council, di- recting that the plan of the neck lands, made by S. P. Fuller, Oct. 25, 1825, be ratified, &c.
A petition of Winslow Lewis, rela- tive to an allowance for filling up a certain dock, across the head of navi- gation, on Northampton Street.
The mayor, from the committee who were authorised to apply to the legislature for an act, granting power to the City Council for providing for the reformation of Juvenile delin- quents, reported they had succeeded.
The Committee to whom was re-
ferred the resolves of certain persons, calling themselves masters and rep- resentatives of the several engine com- panies, signed James Pierce, Secreta- ry, and the papers therewith connect- ed, having reported upon that subject, and the same having been considered, thereupon the following resolves were passed unanimously :
Whereas it appears to this Board, by the written representation of Wil- liam Tucker Esq. one of the firewards of this city, that at the fire in Ann St., on the morning of the ninth inst. while said fire was raging, and after a line of engines had been formed, com- municating water to each other, and operating on the fire with full effect, Daniel Adams, captain of engine No. 16, his engine being at the fountain head, and one of the line of said en- gines, ordered his said engine to cease playing, and refused to convey water into one of the engines then forming said line, and notwithstanding the remon- strances of said fireward, persisted in his refusal, and with oaths, clamour, and in a manner highly disorderly and disor- ganizing, refused to obey the orders of said fireward, whereby the endeavours then making to extinguish said fire were impeded, and for a time frustra- ted ; and whereas, conduct of this na- tnre, on such occasions, is in the highest degree disgraceful and dangerous, as well as utterly destructive of all order and discipline ; therefore
Resolved. unanimously, that the said Daniel Adams be, and hereby is, removed from the command of said engine and dismissed from the engine service ; and that the Mayor cause his name to be forthwith stricken from the rolls of engine men accordingly.
And, whereas it also appears by the representation of said fireward, that Alexander H. Jennings, an assistant foreman, and then acting as captain of engine No. 14, did evince a like clani- orous, disorderly and disorganizing dis- position, on the same occasion, and did co-operate with the said Adams, in his said revolt from authority, refusing also to convey water to one of the en- gines forming said line ; therefore
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Resolved, unanimously, that the said Alexander H. Jennings be, and he is hereby, dismissed from the engine service ; and that the Mayor forth- with cause his name to be stricken from the rolls of engine men, accord- ingly.
And, ordered, that the City Clerk cause the foregoing to be published, and that said Adams and Jennings be served with a copy thereof.
There was a communication from the Health Commissioner, relative to Jenks's Alleviator, (a patent bed ) for the sick at the Island-being a propo- sition of Mr. Jenks to exchange the one now in use, for an improved one.
Ordered that Engine Companies No. 16, and 14, be directed to elect new foremen.
A petition was received from Mr. J. V. N. Throop, and others, praying to be organized as a fire association, for the purpose of subduing fires.
IN COMMON COUNCIL.
Monday, March 20 .--- An order was concurred in, directing the Committee on the extension of Fanueil Hall Mar- ket, to sell, at auction, or otherwise at their discretion, all the land owned by . the city, bounding westerly on Mer- chants Row, and south of the new south block of Stores, and south by land of David Greenough, and that the Mayor be authorized to execute deeds of the same. Also, to lay out, and make sale of all the City's land lying between North Market and Ann Streets.
The report of the committee on the subject of Thos. Welsh Jr.'s claim for damages for a small piece of land ta- ken into that part of Common-street called Pemberton Hill, was read a 2d time and accepted-by this report, the Mayor is authorized to purchase the whole of Mr. Welsh's estate for the sum of $3300, in full compensation for the same and for the damages claimed by him.
The report of the Committee of Fi- Dance was considered, and six of the seventeen sections reported, were pas- sed upon, by which the following sala- ries for the current year were voted :---
Mayor's, $2500 ; Treasurer and Col- lector's, $2000 ; Clerk of Treasurer, and incidental expenses, $1000 ; City Clerk's 1200; Clerk of Common Council, $800, in addition to Publish- ment fees ; Messenger, $500; Perma- nent Assessors $1000 each.
The petition of William Sullivan and others, for the use of a piece of land, not exceeding one acre in extent, near the meeting of Boylston, Pleasant and Charles street, for the establish- ment of a Gymnasium, was referred to Aldermen Welsh, Oliver, and Lor- ing, Messrs. Bassett, Rice, Farnsworth, and Bent.
Reports were accepted in concur- rence, enjoining it upon the Mayor and Aldermen, to cause an aditional story to be added to the Eliot and Ma- son Street School Houses, for Ward Rooms for No. 1 and No 10.
A report granting a further compen- sation of $85 to Andrew Campbell, was accepted.
SUMMARY.
St. Patrick's Day .-. On Friday, March 17, the Irish Charitable Society, of this city, celebrated their anniversa- ry at the Exchange Coffee-House. The usual business of electing officers, &c. for the ensuing year was transact- ed and the members of the Society sat down to an excellent dinner served up in an elegant style by Col. Hamilton.
We understand the citizens of South Boston have agreed to build the Free Bridge from Wheeler's Point.
A subscription paper is going the rounds, in order to raise a sum of mon- cy to improve the frog pond, upon the Common.
As some improvements are to be made in the Mall, the present season, a writer in the Evening Gazette, ex- presses a hope that the wooden fence will be succeeded by stone posts and iron railings. In New York, the Com- mon Council have reported in favour of an iron fence round the Batte- ry, which it is supposed will cost $16,000.
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AND CITY RECORD, APRIL 1, 1826.
To Hon. Josiah Quincy, Mayor of the City of Boston.
SIR, -- I shall make no apology for addressing you in the free manner which a freeman should always use, when his rights are trampled upon -- The public have seen the proclama- tion, or rather proscription, removing me from the command of Engine No. 16, dismissing me from the Engine service, and assigning, as the causes of this measure, acts and conduct on my part, disgraceful to me as a man, and as a public officer of the city. Though occupying a station in society, which persons of your way of thinking may perhaps consider a humble one ; yet my character as a private citizen is as dear to me and my friends, as yours can be to you and your friends ; and my character as a public man, (though nothing higher than Captain of En- gine No. 16,) is to me full as valuable, and as well worth defending and pre- serving, as your reputation as a public man.
Your removal of me from my office is in itself a matter of no consequence, for without incurring the reproach of a lack of modesty, I believe that I may safely assert, that the loss is wholly on the side of the city. I am relieved from the duties of a station of great exposure and hard labour, attended with no profit, but rather expense to me, and the whole honour of which is the honour of being useful to the com- munity in which I live. On the other hand the city loses the services of a man accustomed to exposure and la- bour from his youth upwards, who, by experience, has rendered himself well acquainted with the duties of the office, and who has been and ever will be willing to make every exertion in his power to protect from injury the prop- erty of any one of his fellow citizens. The exemptions enjoyed by the en- gine men from serving on juries, and in the militia, were never motives for my entering into the service. I am always proud and happy to serve on juries, and have never wished an ex- emption from that sacred duty, al- though the discharge of it has some- times occasioned me inconvenience in
my business. As to the militia ser- vice, I becamean exempt twenty three years since, by an accident which un- fortunately befel me. In celebrating the anniversary of the fourth of March, the glorious fourth of March, 816 !- TEEN HUNDRED AND ONE, the day of the accession to the Presidency of the father of American Democracy - (you, sir, probably were not rejoicing and celebrating that day, but I was,) a part of my right hand was blown off, when firing a salute. leaving me, by the blessing of a gracious Providence, a thumb, and a deformed finger, and thus years before I entered the engine service, I was an exempt from military duty. By the favor of that kind Prov- idence, by whose mercy my thumb and finger were preserved to me, and to whom my heart ever beats with humble and fervent gratitude, I have been enabled to obtain comfort and a competence in my business of a pump and block maker, and though unable to serve my country in any military capacity, have yet been, I trust, in some degree useful to the public as captain of an engine. In this station, it has been a source of great gratifica- tion to me to receive every testimony of confidence and good will from my company, especially since it has been my misfortune to fall under your high displeasure, and to be dismissed from that station in a manner which would affix a stigma to my character, were it in your power to affect it in the slight- est degree. After this, it will not, I think, he believed, that my acceptance of the situation proceeded from any other motive, than public good, and a desire to be useful to my fellow citi- zens. A removal, therefore, from that situation in an honourable manner, would have occasioned me no pain, except that of parting with a company who have given me great satisfaction by a faithful discharge of their duty on all occasions, and who now resent, with that indignation which all honest men feel at acts of oppression, the in- justice of which I have been made the victim.
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
against me, not on account of the offi of which I have been deprived, not because your opinion of me is valued a straw, or can in any measure affect my reputation where we are both known ; but because they trample upon my constitutional rights, which neither you nor any other man shall do with impunity. That Republican Constitution of Government. which the wisdom and patriotism of JOHN HANCOCK and SAMUEL ADAMS, and the matchless valor of WASHINGTON, obtained for us, and which those he- roes, whose glorious victories you thought it unbecoming a moral and religious people to rejoice at, bled to defend and preserve, declares in the 12th article of the Bill of Rights, that "No subject shall be held to answer for any crime or offence, until the same is fully and plainly, substantially, and formally described to him, or be com-
pelled to accuse or furnish evidence against himself .- And every subject shall have a right to produce all proofs that may be favorable to him, to meet the witnesses against him face to face, and to be fully heard in his defence, by himself or his council at his elec- tion."
In my case there has been a direct violation of the Bill of Rights, I have been dismissed, I may say cashiered without a hearing, have never been called before my judges, have never had an opportunity of producing the proofs in my favor, and of being heard in my defence, and the first no- tice which I had of any proceedings against me, upon the complaint pre- ferred, was the official annunciation in the Boston Courier of March the twen- ty first, that I had been judged, con- demned, and sentenced. Sir, before the citizens of Boston, the Cradle of American Liberty, and this now Re- publican Commonwealth, I protest against this monstrous injustice, not only for my own sake, but for the sake of the Constitution of my native state. Had I been allowed a hearing in my defence before I was condemned, and an opportunity of producing the proofs in my favor, it is to be presumed and
I feel the greatest confidence, that it would have been in my power, to have established my entire innocence of every complaint, which might have been exhibited against me. But the opportunity is now lost forever, and all the disgrace which it is in your power to put upon me I must bear through life. I cannot appeal to you the proper tribumal to judge my case, for you have already prijadged it and condemned me onboard. The public are not appointed the. judges of the af- fair and cannot be made to feel an in- terest in its details, the chief defence therefore of my character left me, is to expose the illegality and unconstitu- tionality of the proceedure against me, and to leave to my fellow citizens to decide what respect is due to a con- demnation of a man without ever giv- ing him a chance to be heard in his defence.
Sir, the conduct pursued towards me, has created great excitement, pro- ductive of serious danger to the Engine service, and the safety of the city. Rest assured I shall do every thing in my power to discourage any resolu- tions, which may be injurious to the safety and prosperity of the city. I shall exert all the influence which I may possess, to induce my company and all the other companies faithfully to discharge their duty - And when- ever the property of any of my fellow citizens, even those who have attempt- ed to injure me so seriously, shall be . in hazard, I shall be found cheerfully laboring, by night and by day, for its preservation, as a volunteer with my company. That hand maimed in cel- ebrating the anniversary of the Inau- guration of Thomas Jefferson, upon the splendid orb of whose fame, you, sir, by your celebrated motion for an Impeachment ( in the honor of which you had no rical have fastened your own political reputatation, like a spot on the face of the sun ; shall always be raised to assist the unfortunate, till it shall lie powerless in the dust.
And now. sir. permit me to bid you a farewell wish, that your public
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life may be short and your private course long and happy.
Your obedient servant,
DANIEL ADAMS. Boston, March 24.
BOSTON : SATURDAY. APRIL 1, 1826.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
If A. N. the writer of an article upon -, ac- companied with a list of the periodicals in Boston, will call at our office, we will discourse with him.
Our friend Leomtius. has not been forgotten. We are happy to have his muse fluttering over the News Letter. He is a chaste writer, and his specimens are refined poetry. Wby don't he give us more frequent visits ?
Credit should have been given to Col. Knapp's Boston Magazine, for the article on Indian Quit- claims in our last. We would here recommend to the favourable notice of the literary communi- ty, this valuable publication.
The REV. DR. BEECHER was instal- led over the Hanover-st. Church, on Wednesday, March 22d. We have availed ourselves of an accurate draw- ing of this edifice, which will appear in this paper, as soon as an engraving is completed. We purpose to present our patrons with a series of engravings of all the different Houses of Worship in the City, accompanied with an his- torical memoir of each, as soon as our subscription list will warrant it. To the members of each church, these will be valuable records.
WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Much time and more words have been expended in selecting a suitable location for the Washington Monu- ment. In the first place we suspect the Monument is not yet completed, as has been stated in some of our public prints. This, however, has nothing to do with the locality. If it is placed on the Common, as recom- mended, it will lead to farther en- croachments :-- give an inch and take an ell. has been the practice in all ages. The New Market is the poorest of all places,-out of the way of ladies, and in the way of business. By fixing it at the east end of the Old State House,
it will be cramped, for want of room, and liable to ten thousand accidents. There is an open space between John- son Hall and the Old Court House, which might be beautified to any ex- tent -- and besides being in the centre of the City, would become the richest and most beautiful walk in the town. Such a movement would raise the val- ue of every estate in its vicinity, and be more acceptable to the inhabitants than a barren waste. We hope these hints will lead to further consideration upon the subject, by the locating Com- mittee, before they have made a per- manent decision, which might not be satisfactory to the people.
BOSTON ATHENEUM.
We notice some alterations are con- templated in the management of the Boston Atheneum, which, if carried into operation, will reflect a lasting credit upon the proprietors of that valuable collection of literature. That the complaints against the corporation, have been founded in justice, no one will pretend to deny : surely, if there are benefits arising from a library, they can only be exerted in this way, viz. to give people the privilege of reading it. The proposed plan of making the Athenaeum accessable to every order of society, will have the most salutary influence upon all orders of society, in town, and moral virtue and science, and good taste will be discoverable, in future, where neither of these qualifications have scarcely been known.
We saw a petition, the other day, one hundred and twenty eight years old, of a woman, to the General Court of Massachusetts Colony-praying to be restored to a good standing in soci- ciety, from which she had been dis- carded, on account of her " wekness in being betraed into sin, through love," &c. The Court fined her only three pounds, in consideration of the humil- ity she manifested, and sundry mem- bers of the counsel recommended her to the guidance and protection of the Old South Church.
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THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER,
A gentleman of this City, who is the father of children, men and women grown, several years ago, was divorc- ed from his wife-courted her a second time, and after a suitable period of wooing, was married to her again. We understand, this same gentleman has again petitioned for a second di- vorce which will probably be granted. There is nothing like novelty in matri- mony! The parties unquestionably, have agreed to disagree.
Newspaper Changes .- The Essex Courant, at Newburyport, published by Mr. Knapp. has been transferred to W. L. Garrison, and assumed the name of Free Press. S. Smith, Esq one of the proprietors of the Eastern Argus, and principal editor, has sold his pro- portion of the establishment to his partner, Mr. Todd. Mr. Converse has given up the Connecticut Journal, printed at New Haven, to Mr. Hezeki- ah Howe. A paper, called the l'er- mont Statesman has been established at Castleton, Vt. by Ovid Miner. A paper called the Vermont State Ga- zette has also appeared at Montpelier, by George W. Hill. At Cincinnati, a small daily Commercial Register has just commenced its appearance. The Marine Telegraphic Shipping List was commenced in this city, March 1st. by J. R. Parker. A new Paper has been commenced at Saco, Maine, by Messrs. Putnam & Blake, entitled the Maine Palladium.
JOSEPH EATON.
All Bostonians recollect an old gen- tleman who died the last year, an hon- orary member of the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company, whose arm, on parade days, was completely covered with strips of lace. This same man once loaded a cannon in State St. to keep the regulars from landing-was one of the " unknown indians," who threw the tea overboard -took an oath, forty years before his death, never to taste a drop of ardent spirits, which, it is said, he never vio- lated ;- wore a cocked hat, and was a hatter by trade. He styled himself General Joseph Eaton.
NEWSPAPER LITERATURE.
Notwithstanding the common obser- vation, which is as volgar as untrue, that Newspapers are chaff, suited only to the capacity of inferior minds, --- and serve to pass away a dull hour, there is a controlling and powerful charm in the variety of topics which constitute the columns of a newspaper. There is a subject fitted to the condi- tion, the character-the feelings and the taste of every individual. The merchant reads the advertisements ; the lawyer, the reports of trials ; the divine, the enlivening news of mission- ary efforts ; the husbandman reads of fine crops -- the stock-jobber of a rise in the funds; the doctor, of epidemics ; and old maids, of marriages, in cases more hopeless than their own. The state of the nation ; the affairs of the State, -- a town, a district, a ward, a very neighborhood of three houses, with a minute history of the whole world, from the creation of Adam down to the exact period when the commanding officer of Engine No. 16, was cashiered, are all minuted in these faithful messengers of intelligence.
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