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HOUSE OF CORRECTION AND JAIL.
The number of persons at present confined in the House of Correction in this city, is 145; viz. 86 females and 59 males. In the jail for debt, 27.
Marriages
IN THIS CITY.
Augustus Crosby to Hannah Wyman
Chas. C. Kendall to Rachel G. Nicholls
Albert Fisher to Adnab Tibbetts Charles Arnold to Elizabeth HI. Whalan Jos. Thayer to Lydia K. Beers.
Reported at the Health Office during the week ending Friday noon, Nov. 4.
Oct. 28. Thomas Hatten, 3 years.
Nancy B. Steel, 33 years.
Joseph Snowden, 35 years.
30. Elizabeth Knights.
John Johnson.
Mary Cary, 33 years.
" Thomas H. Stone, S years.
" Sarah Bass, 84 years.
" Mary Colburn, 25 years.
31. Ann Abrams, 18 years.
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" Win. E. Bissell, 6 months.
Dorothy May, 67 years.
Nov. 1. Isaac Whitemore, 2 years.
2. William Witson, 20 years.
" Jairus E. Pratt, 3 years.
Joseph N. Adams, 47 years.
Frederick W. Nickerson, 20 years. Harriet Jennings, 15 years.
3. James Martin, 36 years.
Sarah Blood, 67 years.
Hannah Melcher, 47 years.
William Gray, 75 years.
3 Stillborn.
Died in this city on Thursday evening last, the Hon. WILLIAM GRAY, one of our most eminent, enterprising merchants, and respected citizens, aged 75 years.
Port of Boston.
Arrived.
Nov. 3. Java, Rich. Liverpool.
" Sereno, Thacher, do.
Neptune, Picket, Gottenb.
Dove, Ripley, Malaga.
Sarah& Esther, Whitmore, Marsala Clearcd.
Nov. 3. Columbus, Bray, Sumatra.
Orbit, Green, Genoa &Leghi.
Agnes, Harding, Matanzas.
Palladium, Larcom, Azores.
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" TO OBSERVE AND PRESERVE."
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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY ABEL BOWEN, NO. 2, CONGRESS-SQUARE.
A portion of the News-Letter will be appropria- ted for such advertisements as require to be kept in existence ; such as letters of administration, orders of courts ; copy rights ; new publications ; notices of removals ; new establishments of busi- ness ; formation and dissolution of partnerships ; sales of real estates, &c. &c. at the usual prices charged in this city.
It will be perceived that the two outside leaves have not been paged ; these are intended, at the close of a volume, to be separated from the twelve inside pages, and attached as an Appendix, or bound separate.
POSTRY.
From the New Monthly Magazine.
CURIOUS COINCIDENCES.
Tis curious to find in the overgrown town, While through its long streets we are dodging, That many a man is in his trade settled down, Whose name don't agree with his lodging ; For instance, Jack Munday in Friday street dwells, Mr. Pitt in Fox court is residing ;
Mr. White in Brown's buildings, green grocery sells, While East in West square is abiding ;
Mr. Lamb in Red Lion steeet perks up his head, To Lamb's, Conduit street, Lyon goes courting ; Mr. Lover at Battle bridge hires him a bed, While Moon is in Sun street disporting ; Dill Brown up to Green street to live now is gone, In Stanhope-mews Dennett keeps horses- Doctor Low lives in High street, Saint Mary-le-bones In Brown street one Jobnny White's door sees. In Knight Rider street, you've both Walker and Day, In Castle street, Champion and Spearman : In Blackman street Lillywhite makes a display, In Cheapside lives sweet Mrs Dcarman, But still much more curious it is, when the streets. Accord with the names of their tenants ; And yet with such curious accordance one meets, In taking a town tour like Pennant's,
For instance, inCrown street, Geo.King you may note, To Booth, in May fair, you go shopping ; And Porter, of Brewer street, goes in a boat To Waters, of River street, Wapping ! Mr. Sparrow, in Bird street has feather'd his nest, Mr. Archer, in Bow street woos Sally ; Mr Windham, in Air street gets zephyr'd fo rest Mr. Dancer resides in Ball alley.
Mr. Fisher on Finsbury fixes his views, Mrs. Foote in Shoc-lane works at carding ; Mr. Hawke has a residence close to the Mews, And Winter puts up in Spring-gardens.
In Orange street, Lemon vends porter and ale, In Hart street, Jack Deer keeps a stable ; In Hill street, located, you'll find Mr. Dale, In Blue Anchor row, Mr. Cable.
In Paradise row, Mr. Adam sells figs, Eve in Apple-tree-yard rooms has taken ; Mr. Coltman, in Foley street fits you with wigs, In Hog lane you call upon Bacon.
Old Homer in Greek street, sells barrels and staves, While Pope in Cross lane is a baker ;
In Liquorpond street, Dr. Drinkwater shaves, In Cow lane lives A. Veal, undertaker.
DYSPEPSIA.
" Boston folks are full of notions," is a saying which time and truth have made proverbial. It is equally true, and almost as notorious, that Boston folks are addicted to dyspepsia. What a satisfactory cause is thus suggested for that character which has been cast as a reproach upon this ancient place ! Notions are the legitimate offspring of indigestion. A dyspeptical man is always full of them, why not a dys- peptical community also ? Churches of superb and everlasting granite, with a wooden steeple, or a fence of unplaned boards, jammed in, perhaps,
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as if by beetle and wedge, between stables, taverns, tippling houses, and muddy streets ; a capitol of painted brick ; a market spacious, splendid, and durable, but all on one side-here are some of the fruits of this tremen- dous disorder. It is its prevalence which renders the otherwise crafty citizens of the Emporium so prone to running after strangers of distinction, foreigners with titles, mountebanks, merryandrews, tragedians, and pick- pockets; making so much of swin- dlers and charlatans, and neglecting modest men of merit. U. S. Lit. Gaz.
ANECDOTE.
" Why do you not pay me that six and eight pence, Mr. Mulroony ?" said an attorney to an Irishman ; who replied, " Why, faith because I do not owe you that same." "Not owe it to me, yes you do, it's. for opinion you had of me." " That's a good one, indeed," replied Pat, "when I never had any opinion of you in all my life."
JOHN KNOX.
The London Star, of Sept. 28, 1825, contains an account of the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the monument to this " chief instrument, under God, of the reformation of Scotland." This monument is to be erected in the Merchants' Park, Glas- gow, in view of the Cathedral.
STATE PRISON.
The Massachusetts State Prison must be in a flourishing state -- for, from the labour of the convicts, the profit, for one year ending on the 1st inst. amounts to more than ten thou- sand dollars. N.Y. Gaz.
There is error, we apprehend, in making a Penitentiary a money-getting concern, and we therefore conceive that such an institution may yield a net profit of even more than ten thon- sand dollars per annum, and yet be as a Penitentiary in any thing but a very "flourishing" state. The establishment at Charlestown is under excellent man- agement, as a great work shop ; every thing in it seems to be well conducted,
as far as depends upon the Superin- tendent and his deputies. A personal inspection of it, however, some time ago, induced the writer of this to be- lieve that the accommodations, food and privileges, of the tenants of that place of condign punishment, were equal, if not superior, to those which are ordinarily enjoyed by workmen. in Europe at least, in extensive manufac- tories-and very little inferior, in ac- tual comfort, to those enjoyed on board ships of war in the service of some nations, if not in ours. All these comforts produce the usual result of well fed labour-producticeness ; but do they punish or prevent crime ? That is the test of the relative utility of Penitentiaries .- Nat. Intel.
THE HATFIELD ELM.
The Elm in Hatfield, Mass. is sup- posed to be the largest in New Eng- land. It measures in circumference thirty-four feet, at two feet from the ground ; at the height of five feet, the smallest place in the trunk, the cir- cumference is twenty-four feet six in- ches. There is a cut in the tree, four feet from the ground, which tradition says was made by the Indians, for the highest rise of water in the Connecti- cut river.
PROBATE NOTICE.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Suf- folk, ss. At a Probate Court, held at Bos- ton, in said County, on Monday the twenty- sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five,
WHEREAS Willard Badger, Adminis- trator of the goods and estate of JOSEPH SPEAR, late of Boston, Mariner, deceased, intestate, has this day presented for allow- ance the second account of his administra- tion upon said estate, ,
He the said Willard Badger is hereby di- rected to give public notice in the newspa- per called the American Traveller, printed in said Boston, two weeks successively, that said account will be passed upon at a Pro- bate Court, to be held at said Boston, on Monday the ninth day of January next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. that all persons interest- ed therein may then and there appear, and shew cause, if any they have, either for or against the allowance of the same.
Witness my hand. the day and year above written. JOS'H HALL, Judge of Probate.
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REMOVAL.
CHARLES A. SPRING, has removed to No. 29 Water street
REMOVAL.
· LIVERMORE & DUNN, have removed to No. 23, Kilby street.
To Let .- Chambers No 10, Water-street, recently occupied by them.
BOOKS FOR NEW YEAR.
MUNROE & FRANCIS, 128, Washington- street, have just published the following New Juvenile BOOKS, which they offer at liberal discounts by the dozen, or hundred, namely :--
Poetry without fiction ; for children be- tween the ages of three and seven ; with the conversations of a mother with her chil- dren, intended to make the latter compre- hend what they learn, and to convey such instruction as may arise out of each sub- ject. 50 cts.
Tales of the Pemberton Family ; for the use of children. By Amelia Opie. 50 cts. Helen of the Glen, a tale for Youth. 62 cents.
Warning and Example, or the Story of Mrs. Neville and her Grandchildren. 62 cts.
Little Henri, a German Tale : translated from the French of M. Lambert. 50 cts.
New Tales for Boys. By Madame Dela- faye. 50 cents.
New Tales for Girls. By the same .- Little Flora ; by Elizabeth Somerville, author of many approved works. 50 cts.
Harry and Lucy concluded ; being the last part of Early Lessons, by Maria Edge. worth, in 3 vols. $2,62.
Extract from the Author's Preface. "These volumes are intended for young people, from the age of ten to fourteen. They complete the series of " Early Lessons ;" an humble work, from which no literary fame can be acquired, but which I have been most desirous to complete, from the be- lief that it will be more useful than any other in my power. I have had another motive for finishing it ; one, which, though it may be no concern of the public, I may be permitted to name. Harry and Lucy was begun by my father, above fifty years ago, for the use of his own family, and published at a time when no one of any lit- erary character, excepting Dr. Watts and Mrs. Barbauld, had even condescended to write for children. That little book was, I believe, the very first attempt to give any correct elementary knowledge or taste for science in a narrative suited to the compre- hension of children, and calculated to amuse and interest, as well as to instruct.
" I have endeavoured to pursue, in this Conclusion of Early Lessons, my father's object in their commencement-to exercise the powers of attention, observation, rea- soning, and invention, rather than to teach any one science, or to make any advance beyond first principles. The essential
point is to excite a thirst for knowledge, without which it is in vain to pour the full tide even to the lips. As Dr. Johnson said to Boswell, when he was describing the pains his preceptors had taken to give him learning-
" Sir, anybody can bring a horse to the water, but who can make him drink ?"
"The varying occurrences of domestic life, the frequent changes of scene, and the dif- ferent characters of the children, with all their hopes and fears in the pursuit of their own little schemes and experiments, will, I hope, produce sufficient action to create interest, and to keep awake atten- tion. No pernicious stimulus has been giv- en, no deception or cajolery employed to effect our purpose. All attempts to cheat children, by the false promise that they can obtain knowledge without labour, are vain and hurtful. The gods sell every thing to labour, and mortals, young or old, must pay that price. The wages of industry should, however, be rendered as certain as possible ; for the pupils will exert them- selves in proportion to their hopes, that their efforts will be recompensed by the pleasure of success. I have taken all the precautions in my power to secure to cach effort of attention its just reward.
" Much that would be tiresome and insuf- ferable to young people, if offered by pre- ceptors in a didactic tone, will be eagerly accepted when suggested in conversation, especially in conversations between thein- selves : in these there is always a certain proportion of nonsense ; an alloy, which is necessary to make sense work well Chil- dren can go on talking to one another much longer than they can bear to hear the address, however wise or eloquent, of any grown person .-- The great preceptor, stand- ing on the top of the ladder of learning, can hardly stretch his hand down to the poor urchin at the bottom. looking up to him in despair ; but an intermediate com- panion, who is only a few steps above, can assist him with a helping hand, can show him where to put his foot safely ; and now urging, now encouraging, can draw him up to any height within his own attainment."
The Boston Picture Books. No 1 to 12. being new and neat small Toy Books for Children, retailed by the dozen only, or by the groce 125.
Also a very large collection of Books for Children of all ages, published in different parts of the U. States ; and in England.
REMOVAL.
BALL & DAVIS would inform their friends and the public, that they have sold out their stock at No. 429, Washington- street, formerly Na 2 Newbury-street, and have taken the chambers on the north cor- ner of Kilby and Central-streets, where they have for sale a general assortment of FOREIGN and DOMESTIC DRY GOODS.
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Marriages IN THIS CITY.
Amariah Coy to Emeline Spear Simeon Sever of Braintree to Maria Bagley Elias J. Craig to Harriet Neil Peter Atherton to Mary Copeland Alexander Hammond to Mary Benner Edgar W. Davies to Mary Blake Jos. Warren Jr. to Eunice Hale Stephen Vialle Jr. to Martha L. Gould.
MARRIED, in Newstead, by Rev. Mr. Crooks, Mr. Ichabod Crane to Miss Susan- nah Hook.
By hook or crook This loving pair Are bound in wedlock's chain, What is a hook Without a crook, Or hook without a crane ?
In Swanzey, Mass. on Thursday evening last, by Rev. Mr. Taylor, Mr. Jonathan K. Brown to Miss Sally Mason, daughter of Mr. Benajah Mason.
Deaths
Reported at the Health Office during the week ending Thursday noon, Dec. 29.
Dec. 22. Lydia Russell, 59 years.
Priscilla Badger. 46 years.
Mary Knowles, 24 years.
Mary Story, 65 years.
Catharine Stevens, 93 years.
Eben. C. H. Cook, 7 years.
23. Elizabeth Powars, 71 years.
Edward Burk, 14 months. - Coombs, 1 week.
24. Geo. Williams, 14 years.
Hannah L. Singleton, 49 years.
" Edward O. Baker, 24 "
Cynthia Smith, 33 =
25. Charles Guild, 59
" Horatio A. Preston, 12
" Mary Mansfield, 42
26. Harriet Smith, 29
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Charles B. Nottage, 3 months.
27. David Flinn, 5 years. Elizabeth Clouston, 58 years.
28. Sarah Spalding, 20 years.
Eliza Murray (infant.)
" Ellen Warlake, 65 years
Catharine L. Borland, 32 years.
DIED.
In Andover, Mass. 22d inst. Mr. Joseph Dane, aged 72. He was a soldier in Col. Prescott's regt. at the battle of Bunker Hill.
In Burlington, Dr. William Paddock, aged 38 ; for some years a respectable practitioner in that place, and Lecturer on Botany in the Medical Institution.
In Charleston, S. C. Rev. Hooper Cum- ming, late of New-York.
In Baltimore, Mr. John Elliot, in the 105th year of his age.
In Tolland. Con. Gen. Elijah Chapman, aged 73. Gen. Chapman was the first Sheriff of Tolland, and held that office from the incorporation of the county in 1786, un- til his resignation in 1809. He served in the Revolution from the commencement to the close of the war.
In Virginia, Peter Bowdoin Esq, aged 64. In Preston, Ct. Mr. Ephraim Herrick, aged 100 years. He rode post from the office ofthe New-London Gazette, 15 years, and performed the duty with ease to himself and acceptance to his customers until he was 75 years old. He lost an arm in the ser- vice of his country in the revolutionary war.
QUEBEC, December 8.
The funeral of his Lordship, Joseph Octave Pelessis, Roman Catholic Bish- op of this Diocese, took place yester- day, the 7th. instant, with the ceremo- nies and respect due to the rank of the deceased, and in the presence of an immense concourse of people.
HISTORY OF BOSTON.
JUST published by ABEL BOWEN, and for sale at his Office, No. 2, Congress- square, HISTORY OF BOSTON. the Metropo- lis of Massachusetts, from its origin to the present period, with some account of the Environs. By CALEB H. SNOW, M. D. Embellished with engravings. 1 vol. octa- vo --- 400 pages.
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNER- SHIP.
NOTICE is hereby given that the co- partnership heretofore existing between the subscribers, under the firm of JEREMIAH FITCH & CO. was dissolved by mutual consent, on the 21st. ult .- All persons in- debted to said firm are called upon to pay the same, and all persons having demands against said firm, are requested to present them to JEREMIAH FITCH. No's 38 and 40 Central street who will duly settle and adjust the same. JEREMIAH FITCH. RICHARD S. HOWE.
JEREMIAH FITCH would inform his friends and the public, that he continues the business at No's 38 & 40 Central-street, where he has for sale a very extensive as- sortment of WOOLEN, COTTON & SILK GOODS, by the package or piece.
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It will be perceived that the two outside leaves have not been paged ; these are intended, at the close of a volume, to be separated from the twelve inside pages, and attached as an Appendix, or bound separate.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
An article on Telegraphs shall ap- pear next week, with several others, which were received too late for this paper.
POETRY.
For the Boston News-Letter. NEW YEAR.
Once more revolving Earth, around the Sun, As from Eternity, its race has run ; And to Eternity perhaps may fly, Thro' Gulphs of ether round the winding sky.
Globe of my birth, all hail thy bright career, Which thus upon us brings the new-born year ; Altho' thy children die, by Fate or Quack,
Thou carriest all thy baggage on thy back.
Iluge piles of bones, with health, and hopes, and fears,
With all the "Lumber of six thousand years," Enrich thy soil; and keep the balance true, By killing old ones to support the new.
Such is the will of Heaven ; and I'll no more Thy transient, fleeting, flashing Gems adore ; But stick close to thee, till by age I'm hurl'd From thy cold regions to a milder World.
Boston, Jan. 1, 1826. OLD S.
ANECDOTE.
About two months after the failure of the Eagle Bank, a respectable look- ing gentleman called into a lottery of- fice and inquired if bills of that bank would be taken for tickets, and stated that he had a five dollar bill of that description, which he had just ascertain- ed was uncurrent. He was asked how long the bill had been in his possession, the reply was, only two or three weeks, that he lived a little way into the inte- rior and took it of a traveller whom he had entertained for a night. Somewhat surprised that a person, apparently in good circumstances and of considerable intelligence, could be ignorant of the failure of that bank, a by-stander inquired if he took a news- paper. The stranger replied, he for- merly took one, but thinking himself unable to afford the expense, he had a few months before discontinued it.
Gard. Chron.
BIG WALNUT TREE.
The Big Walnut Tree, which for many a year filled so large a space in the traveller's eye, as he passed through the fertile town of Hanover, Chat- auque county, on his way to Ohio, was, some three years since, by a ter- rible wind, tumbled to the ground. This giant of the forest, whose girth was about thirty feet, was seized upon by a speculator, who hollowed out a a piece of its trunk, and converted it into a grocery ; and this mighty giant, who had withstood the rage of the el-
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LAW SUIT.
A case of some interest, as relating to passengers and steam-boats, was tried before Judge Irving, on the 24th inst. and was brought by Alfred Pool against Capt. Thomas Wiswall, of the steam boat James Kent. It appears that the defendant came on board the Kent at Hudson, when bound to this city. He applied for a birth at bed time, when he was refused, on the ground that he had not paid his fare. He contended that he paid his fare almost immediately on his coming on board the boat, but being a stranger, did not think it necessary to put down his name for a birth. Harsh words ensued, which terminated by an offer on the part of the plaintiff to pay his fare a second time, which the captain refused, but contended that he should put him on shore, and about 1 o'clock in the morning, actually forced the plaintiff in the boat, and landed him at a lonely spot, far from a house, and twenty miles from the city, keeping his baggage as security for the passage. The jury after a charge from the judge, against the legality of the captain's conduct, brought in a verdict of $75 damages for plaintiff. N. Y. Adv.
PEOPLE OF COLOUR.
A bill passed the lower house of the Legislature of South Carolina on the
16th inst. amending the law prohibit- ing the introduction of free persons of colour, which provides that on the ar- rival of all packets or merchant ves- sels at any of the ports of the State, from any foreign port, having on board any coloured persons, employ- ed as stewards, cooks, &c. the Sheriff of said district shall repair on board such vessel, and order the captain of the same to remove his vessel into the stream, at a distance of not less than 150 yards from the wharf, and to load and unload the same with lighters ; and a penalty of $1000 to be impos- ed for neglect or refusal.
A resolution has passed in the Vir- ginia House of Delegates, permitting free persons of colour, of general good conduct and character, and such as have wives and children, to remain in the State. The law was formerly that none, but those who had perform- ed some signal action, should be al- lowed the privilege. Courier.
SHIP-BUILDING AT BATH.
It is stated in a Bath paper of Nov. 15th that during the two preceding days, there had been 10 launches of fine vessels from the ship yards of that thriving town-one a brig fully rigged.
MALTA.
The city of Malta, possessing great natural fortifications, was rendered by the wealth, power, and perseverance of the knights, one of the strongest places in Europe. The outer wall is from 45 to 75, and even 100 feet high in some places, immensely thick, and founded upon the rock; the inner wall is still higher, and as thick, the whole built with the greatest solidity and regularity ; the gateways are lofty and magnificent, rising above the rest of the wall, and ornamented with carvings of immense size : it may give you some idea of these walls to state that they now afford a place of residence to many thousands of the Maltese people ; there were left arch- ed spaces extending into the thickness of the walls ; the front of these arch- es they fill up with a stone wall and this converts them into a house at once.
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