The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-12-24

ALLIED BANKS. 1t is :,
it may prove true, that tho sa1n, ana we noPs
has withdrawn from its conf Leicester paIA
Suffolk Bank in this city, anGnexion WIN lne
after redeemng its bills at itsS lhtehns mere
We hope this independent step 2wn !, couht c,
lowed by others in the country, uhii og ,I,-
whole INJURIOUS and destructive policy 'nu
what are termed the Allied Banks shall D. ~
changed. When this system was first a.
| doPted, its operation and consequent effects
were predicted by some of the most res
pectable papers in this and the other New
| England States, but without exciting any
other attention here than partial attempt
at refntaton. Sufficient time has now e.
| lapsed to show, that however advantageous
J the system may have been to the individu-
| ais concerned in the several banks, il has
been one of great detriment to the city.
We state without hesitation, and we be-
! leve the candid and rejecting portion OF
the business population of our city will con-
firm our assertion, that this very policy of
the Suffolk Bank and others, has had great
er influence in retardlng the growth and
prosperity of Boston and diverting its trade
into other channels, than al the canals that
have been constructed within or near our
! borders, and all the enterprise of our neigh
bors exerted to advance the interests of
their own cities and flourishing towns 1t
our expense.-Bost. Traveller.
RUSSIA. The American Quarterly Re-
view reckons the population of Russa at
between so md 60 millions Of souls, ofwhcm
about 40 millions are serfs, white slaves
employed in husbandry.) The number of
serfs belonging to the crown is IA millions.
G., ,ot ,
are sold in the United States, hut they are
bonded to the land; they form part Of the
glebe, and can only be made over to anoth
er as part of the estate. On some estates,
they are allowed to work three days in the
week on their own account; the other three
days they work for their lord. When the
government wants recruits for the army,
each person holding seifs is directed TO
send his quota OF peasants, suitably equip
, Ped to particular spot. The serfs settle
it among themselves, who are to march.
The friends of the recruits bewail their
fate in the most lamentable manner, and
, take an everlasting farewell of their chill
dren brothers and relations. They seldom
! see or hear from them again. Few fur
loughs are given to Russian soldiers their
distance from home renders visits impossi-
BILE f.; they cannot send letters to their
friends, being unable TO read or write and
most ofthem fall in battle or by natural death
before the expiration of their 25 years. SER
. vice. The pay of the poor soldier is not
more than SIS cents month. Capt. Jones,
y in his Russian Tour, estimates the Russian,
army at 100000 men, of whom not more
. than half are efficient for field duties. The
Cossacks usually send 40 or $1,000 cavalry
i into the field in time of war.
e Hampshire Gazette.
Rum! Rum 1t is our painful duty to add
v another TO the many instances already on
d record of the fatal effects of intemperance.
On the morning of the 18th ult. Mr.. james
J. Murphy of Kennebunk Port, man addict
o ed to intemperance, after having drank
= freely, resolved on destroying his wife. in
% order to effect this object. nutuh oven lid
IS was heated and placed on the bare back of
# his wife, who, it is painful to add, lay upon
the floor intoxicated, After having done
d this he left her without removing the lid,
/ and proceeded to an adjoining pasture
y where he gathered an armful Of brush,
which he carried home and placed about
her, and was just in the act of setting it OH
fire when person entered and arrested
the further progress of his diabolical pur-
pose. Mrs. Murphy fingered until the Cd
: inst. suffering Undesirable pain, when she
i" died. Murphy is in Jail at York.
= Kennebunk Gaz. 2.
!, HIsToRIcAL Fact. Mr.. J. Taygart,
; was elected Senator from the county of
v Columbiana to the second General Assem-
: bly, of the State of Ohio. He appeared and
v made the necessary oaths, and took his
. seat in few days he became melancholy,
a which soon progressed to insanity. In his
insane rawlings he disclosed that he was not
i Thirty years Of age when he took the oaths
: Of his Office and his seat; and that his con-
y science upbraided him with the commission
4 of perjury, in taking an oath to support the
constitution, and at the same moment TAX
i ing u seat in violation of its provisions.
. From this insanity he never recovered, and
!. survived its commencement but a few
months. Cincinnati Gazette.
> The Youths Journal relates an answer
II given by child to impertinent inquiries,
d which is too good to be kept secret from
i stcp-fathers and step-mothers. A widower
d in New England, having children, married
e a widow who had children also. One of
S the female acomen in the neghborhood, hav-
e ing most benevolent itching TO learn how
It affairs moved after the junction of these
k families, inquired of one of the boys " how
IS he liked his step mother, or mother-n-
IS law" To which he promptly replied that
v he had none. The woman reioined, "Why,
v yes you have. You don't think she is your
p own mother. Does she treat you as well
Ii as she does her own children ?" The boy
;, shrewdly and wisely replied: "When faith
{, er and mother married he had children, and