Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1821-01-23
Massachusetts, Schools.

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sing females among them.
II Massachusetts, Schools.
Massachusetts is divided iuto 450 town
ships, each six miles square, and snbdivl-
filed into seven or eight sciioo: districts asa-
king the number of districts in the whole
y state 5000. No scholar is obliged to
walk further than three fourths Of mile
from the extremity to the centre OF the
district, where the school is situated
/ Each township is by law obliged to
raise money for schools, not less than 300
dollars, if mistake not and as much
more as it deems proper the sums raised
usually vary from to 5 hundred dollars,
each township, according 10 the ability OF
Tits Inhabitants, each Of whom pays his pro-
lportion, not as contribution or subscrip-
ton, but as tax regularly assessed, as o
Their taxes are for other purposes. Two
methods Of distributing the money among
the people are used LIST, the quantity re-
ceived by each is regulated by its number
Of scholars I'd, the district receives no
more than was raised in il. Generally
for three or four months 10 the winter a
master is engaged at from ten TO twenty
dollars per month"; and mistress for five
| or six months 10 the summer, at from four
to eight dollars per month. A person who
is not qualified TO teach Geography, Gram
mar, and Geometry, and not well recon-
mended for his morals, &c. is forbid, un-
der heavy penalties by law, to take charge
Of school. Thus the Legislature becomes
guardian and protector Of the morals OIL
| its constituents. The expence Of support
ing these schools does not, on an average,
exceed three dollars per year. The poor
| it costs nothing, and the rich have no rea-
son to complain for the education of the
children Of the poor and his own costs him
five times less than il does 10 the middle or
southern states. His gifts TO the. poor, ;it-
like other gifts, are accompanied with the
Satisfaction that they cannot be abused.
Trenton FederGlist
Interesting Nardtiue.-The Norfolk
Herald of the 18th inst. contains the fol-
lowing interesting narrative OF Mr..
William Anderson, an American, who
Iately arrived there from London. The
editor says that he has conversed with Mr..
A. and finds him intelligent and worthy
of belief: and that he. (Mr. Az intends
hereafter to publish full account of his
Extraordinary adventures, on his aariva
at his pative place 10 Winchester, where
be had gone.--N. 7. Gag.
| William Anderson, aged 81 years, (son
Iof David Anderson, farmer,) a native of
Virginia, was born at Chestnut Level,
Frederick county, near Winchester. A.
bout 18th January, 1902, having entered
into partnership with George johnson, Ca
young man about his own age, son OF a
farmer of the same name, also residing inl
Frederick county, they left the place Of
their nativity for Pittsburg, whence they
/ proceeded, with lumber Of flat bottomed
boats, loaded With venison hams, bear
skins, Aour, whiskey, tobacco, and some
cotton, downthe Ohio to New-Orleans.
Here, having sold their cargo, they pur-
chased brig called the Betsey, Of New
Orleans, navigated by Capt. George Ed
wards, aud took 10 cargo Of flour and
dry goods, for account Of MIR. George
Morgan Of New-Orleans, and Mr.. Will
liam Morgan, Of New-York, and sailed
from that port on the 10th October OF the
same year, on trading voyage. for Rio
Janeiro, where they disposed Of the cargo
for specie; thence they were to proceed
lup the Red Sea, and down the Coroman-
del coast to Canton. On or about the 10th
of October, 1903, Anderson and Johnson,
with four seamen and two negro boys, be-
ing ashore on a iowling excursion, on The
Arabian shore, near Maculla, were cap
tured by party Of wild Arabs. Ander-
son and johnson were separated from
their companions and carried TO the Per-
| sian GaIph, where they were sold to an
4 Arab, who was the Scheick Of Russell
kaimo, known III that country by the name
of Shieck Abdallab, chief Of the Wa
habee Pirates. What became OF the sea-
men and negroes he cannot even conlec-
ture. After acquiring tolerably correct
knowledge Of the language, and becoming
useful in the military service, they were
treated with great kindness, and at the
expiration Of two years and ball, they
were transferred, under strong recon-
mendations, 10 the Gwicuar, Prince Of
Guzzerat, residing at Brodera, the chief
town Of that principally. They were
lnow invested with command 10 the ar
|my of the Gwicuar, aud cootended with
1.-The force Of the British East India Com
, pany, until the death Of the Gwicuar. On