Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-12-30


Governor of that State.
HOPED PETTIcoATs COME AGAIN.
The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser says the
hoops have actually come, giving to the fair
damsels the figure ola Dutch churn. SOME
OF the ladies who appeared in the streets
with hoops CAUSED SO much wonder and mer-
rlment among the boys, that they were oblig-
ed to tiy into strangers houses for refuge.
An individual is now indicted, and await
ing his trial in Upper Canada, for the MUIR
der OF abraham Young. From letters reciev-
ed from Dung there is no doubt that he is
still living, and was in New-York bn the
18th day of October last, where he entered
as sailor on board of a vessel bound to
Lisbon.-Bost. Gaz.
FoReERY. A. young man, belonging, it
IS said, TO one of the most respectable fam
lilies in York, has been apprehended
and committed, for forging a check t6 the
amount of $50 only, upon the United States
Bank. During his examination, he ascrib-
ed his crime to that fruitful source of misery
-Intemperance.
FREE BRIDGE. The Warren Bridge
to Charlestown was thrown open for the
passage OF carriages and other vehicles
on wheels. yesterday morning. Salutes
were fired, and procession was formed
on the occasion. A heavy wagon. over
which flag was hoisted, loaded with
granite, and drawn by nine white horses,
led the way, followed by more than two
hundred trucks with two horses each. and
a large number of carts, laden with cotton
and other merchandise. :" A terrible
snarl Of people a-foot," as gentleman,
apparently from the interiour, observed to
friend at his elbow, brought up the rear.
Among the remarkables which attracted
our attention, was cart filled with hogs
heads, which met the procession when it
was about mid way across the bridge
the sight of which seemed to- excite a
strong disposition to laughter in the null
titude.
The ROAD 70 RUIN. The following
facts from New-York paper of Tuesday
last, are interesting to the inhabitants OF
other cities. There is no doubt of the
existence of many dens in this city-some
OF them so deep as to admit of no escape
to those who frequent them. 1t should be
the duty Of masters; merchants; and the
citizens generally, to guard those Commit
ted to their care, as far as may be, from
similar ruinous haunts.
On Sunday evening last, the high con-
stable of New-York broke up company
OF Juvenile Gamesters in house in
Chapel-street, and carried the keeper TO
the Police-ofice. 1t appears that this den
was chiefly attended by young lads, APP
lprentices, clerks, &c. who are fools
enough.to change good prospects, instruc-
tive society and peace of mind, for misery.
ignorance and self-reproach. They take
the advice of those who are Interested in
their ruin, and reject that of relations, who
have no other interest to prompt their ad-
vice but their welfare.
EXPLOSION. On Tuesday night last.
about nine o'clock, one of the steam boil
ers fthe Union Rolling Mill, (iron works.
at the eastern extremity of this city, on
the Monongahela River, burst, with ire
mendous explosion, shot off through the
air ct an angle of about IS degrees with
the horizon, and describing a beautiful
arch, fell into the river nearly two hum
dred yards from the works. The steam
being on fire, and issuing from the boiler
in a stream of flame, it was beheld with
establishment and admiration by the pas
sengers on board the new steamboat
" Uncle SAM" which had but few mo-
ments before passed the spot where it de-
seconded. The furnace in which the four
boilers were situated, being without the
main building, under slight shed, and
the exploding boiler taking a direction
outward from the works, no other injury
was sustained than the present loss Of the
boiler ITSELF and the displacing of its three
companions, which it threw entirely out
of their bed and beyond the floor on which
they were erected. The rolling appara-
tus alone are stopped by the accident; the
hammers and other works were in opera
ton as usual on Wednesday morning.
Pittsburg Gaz.
DISTRESSING CALAMITY. AS the per-
sons employed upon the new Meeting
house in WILLIAMSON, Wayne County,
New York, on Friday last, were raising
the first bent of the steeple, stick Of
timber gave way, and sixteen men, with
the frame of the steeple, were precipitated
to the ground Fourteen were wounded,
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