American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-09-12


glons congregations, or societies, in this State on
any Lords day, in The month of September next
for the benefit Of the Retreat for The Insane. A.
Igreeaby TO brief grated by the General Assembly,
Tor live years froni May, 1872 l.
Connecticut paper.
We lately noticed (rernarks the Salem Gazette)
snilar proclamation, granting liberty to take coll
lections IN the different churches, for the purpose
OF aiding religious society in rebuilding their NEE
ting house, which had been destroyed.
This IS very extraordinary, that in State boast
ing o! its toteration and its civil and religious free.
dom, contribution for religious or charitable OBJ
Ject cannot take place without the express author
lily and sanction of the Government! We believe
here is such restriction in any other part Of the
Union even in the civilized world.
| PAUPERISM--In report made to the levy
courtof the County of Washington in the District Of
columbia, it is stated that
"Within the incorporated limits of Georgetown
(which contain population of every description, Of
about seven thousand souls, there are l. IS than
forty nine licensed " tayerns," not more than six
or seven OF which have the necessary requisites for
1.-THE accommodation oil travellers or lodgers--the re-
naming forty tico being mere "grog shops" or
"upling houses" where ardent spirits sold in
as small quantity as hall gill. For each ofthese
licenses the possessor pays to the constituted
the privilege of using it for one year thus produ
Icing revenue to the town OF $3.50 per annum.
ain addition to these iorty-n nine licensed Idrerns
las AZ Of them are Improperly called) within the
limits Of Georgetown, there are forty fve licensed
houses, or storesifor selling spruous liquors By the
lpint, and from tina. quantity upwards. For each of
these licenses, duty or tax OF $50 year is paid,
land yielding to the an animal revenue Of 5000
Upon these statements, and others contained in
the report the committee who presented the report,
make the following remarks:
Upon the whole, your committee do believe,
that the great number of grog shops and tiplng
houses licensed in our neighborhood, arc as ma
my snares and bats laid for the idle, the ignorant
and the unwary. Even the guarded and in
dustrious citizens are sometimes lured into these
e NJ AN-TRAPS, which are so thickly set along our
streets an alleys and public highways, that is some
: times difficult 10 escape them. There, the NOR
81 ais OF our servants corrupted and debauched.
O tTherc, baspherny and wickedness stalk In open
day-particularly on that day which is emphatica-
silly called "1he Lord's;" and to catalogue OF other
Il evils too numerous to mention, disgusting to-
relate,--there follow in the tran-niisery and
Il wretchedness-poverty and beggary And yet
J. our constituted authorities do, in effect sanction
X these iniqutes by permitting them to exist-nay,
% by licensing them to be placed in our highways,
thereby tempting men to sin-a course OF proceed
ing in direct opposition TO that wisest and best of
J. as not into temptation.
% IEA.--In an article which originally appeared
II in the Fayetteville Observer & which has been pub
il shed in most OF the papers of the United States
IS it was stated that the genuine Hyson Tea had been
successfully cultivated in this stale; that the seed
st was found in chest of tea purchased byMr John
ID Newlin and being planted in his garden produced
plentiful crop. We have inquired Of Mr. Newlin, e
he n find that a considerable
ID the statement. He tells that the FIRST ntmation
G. he had of the circumstance was from the uewsPa-
pers but that afterwards, having had many appf-
cations for Seed he inquired among his neghbors,
a. and found that plant had been cultivated by many
tie of them for number Of years past, which q
g very good substitute for Tea that when we'll cured
y it was but little inferior to that imported from Chi
ma But that 1t is an annual plant, springng up in
abundance n the spring from the seed from it in
r the fall that when once introduced into The gar
b. den il is with difficulty eradicaed. As the Tea of
n India is perennial plant we can no longer Indulge
k the hope that have tpow in possession though
" we believe it would flourish here ii once introduced.
al HHlsborough Recorder.
: Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, native of Boston, and
" Member of the British Parmen, has presented
~ the Trustees Of Massachusetts Agricultural Soci
= s,y, Bull OF The frs, breed in Great Br;' ain. The
~, thanks Of the Board have been voted to Admiaral
!, Coffin who has been Honorary MeInher of the
Agrie ulIural Society and the socie,y's Gold Medal
=, s. Journals have been voted to him.
- The Bull cost 1851 90, and the expenses OF trans.
u pouatioa ware l5,26-Total 69460.
PROVIDENCE, Or. ~ Aug. &C.
On "Wednesday last, man in this town was
he fined by Mr. Justice Apn, one dollar and costs
re, Tor cruelty overlooking his horse. An appeal was
M taken from the judgment Of the court--We are