Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-09-30


you may see and feel the hopes which NAV
be entertained by all who will forsake tho;y
sins, and give themselves up to shirt If
penitence and heartfelt sorrow for sin. listen
to the Reverend Clergy, who will visit Won
pray with you, and if they find YOUR heart
softened, will comfort and console Won.
AS ministers of the law, it is our dutv 70
exhort you. As men, we compassionate
your unhappy condition. and most earnestiv
hope that the short residue of your life NAV
be SO passed, that before you are summoned
to the scattold, you may see, through the
gloom OF sin and wretchedness which now
surrounds you, beam of light and mercy.
to conduct you to the throne of God. with
heart purified by repentance, and with a
hope of forgiveness.
Hearken now to the sentence which the
law awards for your crime. That sentence
is, that you be taken from this bar to the
prison from whence you were brought
from thence to the place to be appointed for
the execution of this sentence; and that
you be there hanged by the neck until YOU
are dead
And may God Almighty, of his infinite
grace and mercy, through the intercession
of Jesus Christ the Saviour, have compassion
of your soul
BALTIMORE AND ONO RAIL Roam.
We were highly pleased with an actual de-
monstration of the utility of rail roads,
which fell under our observation. The
workmen were cutting down considerable
hill, the earth from which was required to
NIL a valley at its foot. A temporary wood
enrail-way was constructed from the hill to
the valley, and railway cars placed upon it.
calculated to. carry, we should think, from
five to eight common cart loads. These
cars heavily loaded, were drawn by a single
mule, at speed considerably over that Of a
common cart. This railway is nothing but
simple scantling laid upon cross pieces of
rude sapling timber, cut from the road, and
extended at each end as the excavation and
the filling up of the valley proceed. While
one car was filling by the workmen, the
mule was drawing the other to the place of
deposit, then about two hundred yards dis
tant. The cars appear to be exact patterns
of the coal cars of the Hetton railway, and
their operation affords perfect idea of
railway transportation-it is in fact, the
thing itself, and is really worthy of exami-
nation by the citizens of Baltimore, especial
ly those who entertain doubts of the utility
or practicability of this kind of improvement
In land transportation. Though temporarily
and very rudely constructed, this small rail-
way actually enables the mule, there being
but one engaged) to do the work of six or
eight horses.-BaH. Patriot
The Board of Visitors of the Theological
Institution at Andover commenced their
session yesterday afternoon at 2o'clock, for
the trial of Professor Murdoch on charges
preferred against him by the Trustees. The
friends of DIR. Murdoch were refused admis-
sion; and the witnesses in the case were
excluded and notified that they would be
called one by one as they were wanted.
Some gentlemen from distance, who
were present, intended to have reported the
case, if they could have been admitted. I'M
mediately on the opening of the court, a
mntinn was made hu DIR Mnraanlr,e counsel
to admit the witnesses, as is usual in all
cases. After full argument, the court
came to solemn determination that they
aoould admit no one. They are now sitting
with closed doors, AFTER THE MANNER OF
THE HOLY NQUIsITION.-Satem Gazette.
ACCIDENT. On Saturday last, as Mr..
DAVID WAIT, 3D. of this town, was in the
act of driving his team into the Ferry Boat a
few rods below where Connecticut River
Bridge stood, between this place and Mon
tague, the rope with which the boat was
fastened, broke, and the boat suddenly left
the shore whilst the horses only had entered,
and they being attached to the load, the boat
filled and sank about six rods from the shore.
The horses in number, were all drowned.
The wagon was freighted with 81 firkins of
butter, 700 lbs. cheese, and 800 lbs. tallow.
The butter and tallow were principally saved;
the cheese mostly lost. The horses were
valuable for the purpose for which they we're
used, and it is heavy loss to Mr.. Wait,
who is an enterprising and Industrious young
man. A fair estimate of the whole loss is
about 800. We are happy to state that no
lives were lost.-Greenfeld Gaz.
Coon News FOR PERSONS WANTING
EMPLOYMENT. A correspondent of the
New-York Commercial Advertiser states,
that the sections of the Pennsylvania Canal
passing through the counties of Northum-
berland, Dauphin, Lancaster, and Hunting
ton, embracing distance of $50 miles, are
to be contracted for on the 10th of next
month the work to commence Immediately
The contractors will require 5000 men.
Hundreds of labourers are now on their way
to Lancaster. Every man that has arrived on
the Canal has been engaged at high wages,
| lit is said $25 per month"; and with the as
surance of regular employ all the winter.