Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-08-19

was but little show of business, as all SEEM
Gu disposed 10 continue to cooler and more
convenient season for trial. We believe
only three verdicts were taken. and the
amount OF them was very inconsiderable.
The court adjourned on Thursday afternoon.
having disposed of every thing before them
The Gardner Chronicle of Friday states
that shock of an earthquake was sensiblv
felt in that region on Monday morning for
a few moments the buildings shook consid.
erably.
When at Baltimore the President wore
garment made of the cloth woven in the
streets in the procession commemorative Of
the commencement of the Baltimore and
Ohio Rail Road, on the 4th july last. and
presented to him by the weayers.
The President of the United States has
arrived at his residence in Quincy. from
Washington. He left that city on Tuesday
last week, roGe on horseback to Baltimore
the same day, received visiters, took the
Union Line the next morning, and arrived
in Philadelphia the same evening. An i'm
mense number of citizens welcomed his
landing with loud and prolonged cheers, and
waited upon him to his lodgings at the Man.
sion House Hotel, where the huzzas con-
tinued till the President appeared on the
piazza, and said, "Fellow Citizens-I thank
you for yoWr kind reception, and aoish you
all good ntght." He arrived in New-York
on Friday; and received the calls of the
citizens through the day, and till 10 o'clock
in the evening. On Saturday he visited the
Navy Yard in Brooklyn was received by
Com. Chauncy, on board the Hudson frigate,
under a national salute, passed some time at
Princes Botanical Garden, on Long Island,
dined with the Commodore, and took pass
age in the steamboat Chancellor Livingston.
for Providence. The boat having stopped
at Newport, the President received three
tlmes-three hearty cheers from the assem-
bled citizens; and was welcomed on his
arrival at Providence by the greetings of an
immense assemblage, and by discharge of
artillery; stopped at the Franklin House.
attended Divine Service at the meeting
house of the Rev. Mr.. Edes, and in the cool
OF the evening, mounted his horse, rode to
Walpole, remained at Fuller's for the night.
and arrived at Quincy on Monday at noon.
He was attended by his Secretary, Mr. John
Adams. We learn that the President will
return to Washington in October; and that
he has acquiesced in an arrangement made
by the citizens of New-York, to paw their
respects to the Chief Magistrate of the
Union on his return.-Bost CentineE.
A few mornings ago, an up-country Crack
er, half Horse, half Alligator, and little
touch of the Swapping Turtle went into one
of our stores under the Bluff, and called for
glass of .4nti- Fog, which lie had no sooner
despatched, than he retired into the back
part of the store. Sometime afterwards. the
storekeeper, wondering what business he
could have there, went in search of him, and
on looking into one of his salt binns, found
the fellow curled up like Rattlesnake, and
nearly buried in the salt. When asked
what he was doing there, he replied that he
had been in Darien ten days, that he had not
had a single fight, and was afraid he would
spol Upon being routed, he stretched
himself, and sung out 'hurra for Jackson
and swore he could fog any thing of his
inches that ever walked upon Pole Boat.
Darien Gazette.
Pelham Warren, for many years clerk
OF the Massachusetts House of Represen-
tatives, has been appointed collector of the
Port of Plymouth.
ACCIDENT. On Tuesday evening, Peter
Brown, his wife and three children, took
passage at Catskill for Newburgh, on board
OF one of the tow-boats attached to the
steam boat New-London. They put their
children to bed, and were eating their sup
per at a short distance from them, when the
father discovered that one of the boys, about
III years OF age, was absent. Search was
Immediately made which proved unsuccess-
ful, and it was concluded that he must have
walked overheard in his Sleep The father
begged OF the captain to put out a boat and
endeavour to rescue him, but he unfeelingly
refused and roughly told the distracted
mother not to disturb the passengers with
her cries, and when she landed bawled out
to her, not to alarm the whole village. The
body has not yet been found. 1t was dress
ed in a suit of fustian.
The father gave us the above particulars
yesterday morning, and before dinner re-
turned with letter from the postmaster at
Kingston to the postmaster in this village,
from which we gather the following Capt.
Ogden, OF the sloop Decatur, of Poughkeep-
sic, on Tuesday night, about IL O'Clock,
soon after passing the New-London with
tow-boats, thought he heard the cries of
some person in distress. and despatched a
boat to see what was the matter. After the
boat had been gone some time, it returned
with fine Irish boy" about 10 years old.
The boy was taken from the water about
three quarters of an hour after the sloop
passed the steam boat The boy says he
went to bed with his mother in the tow-boat
and that the first he knew afterwards, he
was in the riyer-that his father Peter