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Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-05-27

EFFECT OF FRIGHT. The following ac-
count is from late English paper, and is no
doubt authentick, as it purports to be. Sud-
den rights have been known to produce the
most wonderful effects, even upon the stout
est hearts and strongest minds. We re-
member an instance, which occurred within
a flew years, of lady's being so much fright
ened by the wicked sport of boy in dark
evening, while she was walking the street,
that she died soon afterwards. An instance
of extraordinary effect produced by fright,
occurred in this town several years ago. A
girl, IL or IA years old, had frequently been
told by man, an inmate of the house where
she resided, that the devil would at some
time enter certain window and carry her
off. AS she was one evening engaged near
this window, it being open and a cloth hang
ing upon it, the cloth was blown in upon
her by sudden gust of wind: the fright
which it occasioned was so violent that she
was thrown into CONFUSION fit, which left
her in state of insanity and distractedness
from which she has not recovered to this day.
Sat the time fthe funeral of his late Royal High
ness the Duke of York, a gentleman well known for
his antiquarian researches whose name we withhold,
descended into the Royal cemetry at Windsor, after
the Interment had taken place, and busily engaged
himself in copying inscriptions from various cofins.
While thus engaged, and absorbed in thought, he
heard the door Of the cemetry close with appall
ing sound the taper fell from his hand and he re-
manned perifed by the knowledge of his awful stu
alton, entombed with the dead. He had not power
Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-05-27

GYMNAsTIcKs-AGAIN Since we made
a few Incidental remarks in our last on the
subject of Gymnastics, we have perceived,
by the Yankee, that there is in Portland a
publick Gymnasium, that at North Yarmouth
also, one has been established, and that they
are getting them up at Saco, Brunswick,
and Eastport. This is as it should be. Con-
fined to Seminaries and Colleges gymnas-
ticks can never be of that utility of which
they are susceptible. We want to see them
substituted for the effeminate exercises of
the children, youth, and the adults of the
present day. The increasing changeable-
ness of our climate demands 1.-THE vic
Tins which are every day falling around us,
of close application to study, and to bust
ness, and the wan and pallid countenances
which every day beset us in the streets, call
for it emphatically, and we hope the time is
not far distant when they will become gen
eral. Towns should make it town-busi-
ness, if individuals will not do it, to provide
publick gymnasiums. Let it be a charac-
teristick of our nation, and it will require no
great length of time to establish the fact
that the tendency of an organized and well
conducted system of physical exercise is to
increase our vigour and energy of mind and
body as individuals, and consequently our
strength, security, and happiness as ma
ton.
Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-05-27

conducted system of physical exercise is to
increase our vigour and energy of mind and
body as individuals, and consequently our
strength, security, and happiness as ma
ton.
EGoTIsM. Editors of newspapers are not
unfrequently obliged to appear-to be, iH
gotistical, to degree at which theft
sense and feelings revolt. A modest man
never seeks an opportunity to speak of HIM
self, and resists as long as possible the inn
portunity of propriety, honour, or necessity,
to speak in his own defence. Modesty, how
ever, may be considered virtue incompati-
bic with the duties of an editor. In these
days of individual strife and contentionA
when calm, deliberate, and useful discusl
sions on matters concerning the publick
veal are forgotten in the rage for personal
brawls; when this man is arrayed against
that man, and the principles of both are lost
sight of, or considered as of minor impor-
tance-we are strongly inclined to believe
that modesty is not an editorial requisite
at any rate that it is an accomplishment more
honorable than common. But if editors are
compelled, as it were, to appear what they
do not really mean to be, egotistical, by a
frequent repetition of the personal pronoun,
there are limits even to this necessity. We
consider the regal pronoun ouRsELF, used
by some editors, to be the very achme of the
editorial egotism of which we are speaking.
1t BELTS well enough Royal speech or pro-
clamation, but in our simple republic it is
ridiculous, and, compared with the word for
which it would seem, from pure naodesty, to
-,suso Deen substituted, is supremacy ogocisU-
ical and vain. Mr.. John Neal, editor of the
Yankee, has, we think, acted wisely in drop
ping this word, and using instead the plain
and ineligible word myself If an editor,
or any other writer, is in the constant ha-
bit of making statements, and giving opin-
ions, on hisow responsibility, as an indi-
vidual, there is no improperly in his using
the pronoun I: it is the too frequent and I'M
necessary repetition of it only that strikes
a reader with disgust. There is, in truth,
less egotism in using | and myself than in
using ace and ourselves. But aoe, oursELF, is
barbarism which we are glad to know is
not much encouraged, and which we hope
will ere long be entirely discountenanced.
How ridiculous it would sound in preach
er, an orator, or in common conversation );
and there is nothing to make it less ridicu-
lous in the language of an individual editor
of newspaper.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02
New YoRK, June 80.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.

Yesterday, the packet ship Silas Rich
ards arrived from Liverpool, bringing Lon
don papers to the ODD of May, and Liver
pool to the oath. The consignees of mer-
chandize in this ship, by her arrival in sea-
son to escape the new Tariff Law, it is said,
will at least save fifty thousand dollars.
Rumors existed in London of an ap-
preaching change of Ministry. 1t was re-
ported that Mr.. Huskisson, and some other
members of the Cabinet, had offered, or
we're about to offer their designations. The
decision of the House of Commons upon the
Acknowledgement of refractory borough.
and the state of the Catholic questions, are
suggested as the causes of the difficulty in
the government.
The intelligence from Portugal had be-
come of an interesting character. Don
Miguel on the 3D. of May, issued orders for
summoning the cortes, according to the
ancient laws Of the monarchy" This de-.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02

BEAT THIS WHO CAN. While all the
world are engaged in urging the preten-
sions ofthe different rivals for the Presiden-
cy, we much question whether either of the
gentlemen could successfully vie lin his wayl
with him whose pedigree is given below; it
is said to have been delivered uiua Uoce at
the landing at Natchez by Kentucky boat
man TO a father confessor of the same school
who was constituted an umpire to decide
upon the conflicting pretensions of several
others on account of extraction, &c. We
copy it Uerbdtim ct iterdtim from the pocket
" Album" of ga gentleman of the shade''
who noted it at the. time, (I623.)
81, Sir, (said the speaker) am an ignau-
cious animal, born on the rearing fork of
MILESTONE, close by Ponty meeting house
that goes by water. | am half horse, half
alligator, little tipped off with the snap
ping turtle-some kin to the Ringtail Paint
er, have fought and whipt all manner of
Variants; chased a flash of lightning down
honey locust, stark naked, head foremost,
and never broke the hide-can out run, out
jump, throw down or whip any man who
does not say Hlrra for Clay"
At a meeting ofthe Anti JacEson Correspond
NOluHlILec VI OOuuIy, virginia,
held juno 10, the Hon. BUsHRoD WAsHISGToN
was unanimously requested to be considered
Member. The Judge in his answer to the
Chairman, says -
" Believing that the utmost purity of conduct
attended the election of Mr. j. Q. Adams to the
office which he now holds, and has SO ably ad-
mlnistered, have never hesitated, when a fit
occasion offered, to express my sentiments in
favor of his reelection to the Presidential
Chair; | should, of course, accede to the wish
of the Committee, if by doing so, could pro-
mote the object which they have in view. But
expecting soon to leave the county, not to re-
turn to it till after the election has passed. l
shall but nominally occupy place in that body,
which might be benefcially filled by some more
efficient member"
Abiding to this subject, tho National Intelli-
gencer remarks, that it must be matter of sat
isfaction to the friends of the Administration
everywhere, to find such men as Judge Wash
ington adding their unqualified conviction to
that of the venerable and illustrious Chief JUS
tice of the United States, of the purity and fit
ness of the National Executive CeniineI.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02
SOUTHERN Expedition. w

SOUTHERN EXPEDITION. We under
stand that orders have issued from the Ma
Wy Department, to the commanding officer
of the West India squadron, for the imme-
diate return Of the sloop of war Hornet, to
the Navy Yard at New York, to undergo
the necessary repairs, to fit her for the ex-
petition to the South Sea and Pacific Ocean.
We learn that several naval officers, on dis
tant stations, have been sent for TO join the
enterprise. We have not heard who will
be the senior officer, but understand the ap-
pointment will soon be made. We learn.
also, that it Is in contemplation to send one,
perhaps two, small merchant briggs in COM
pany with the Hornet. These small YES
sells will be of essential service to the enter
prise, and may greatly extend its useful
ness. We do not know, however, that
these briggs will be procured by the Navy
Department, but they will act entirely un-
der its control The provision made by
Congress for the expedition was not as am
pie as was desired by its projectors but it
was all that could be obtained amid the
hurry Of the close of the session. The bill
reported by the committee on Naval Affairs
was not acted on, for want of time; and the
resolutions introduced by Mr.. Reed of Mas
sachusetts, we believe originated with, and
were accepted by the friends of the enter
prise, including the Naval committee. as
substitute for the bill.-.Nat. Intelligencer.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02

Bushell, the convict, an account of whom
was published in the Spy of May 49, who
was lately transported for life, for having
plundered jewellers of great number Of
valuable articles, has been sent off to Bot
any Bay with the last batch of criminals
from the hulks, where his accomplishments
are most grievously missed. He was in the
habit of conducting the vocal department in
the Chapel, and as he has a most melodious
voice, he received great deal of fattering
admiration, even amongst persons who were
expiating their own offences. He had en-
tertained hopes OF some remission of the
committed punishment, in consequence of
the representations made to Mr. Spring
Rice, in his favor, but that gentleman was,
we understand, soon after the Communication.
uDdeceived publicly We have reason to
believe that the conyict's own family was
not aware of the extent of his contributions
upon the shopkeepers. The amount of his
depredations may be guessed at from the
facility with which, as we described before,
upon the communication of his sentence, he
concealed diamonds, and the address with
which he blinded the people whom he was
robbing. He said in Newgate that some of
the phrenologists had examined his skull.
and pronounced It to be rich in musical
bumps, but that they were unanimous in de-
claring, that the organ or bump of discre
ton was not at all perceptible.
IonnIo9, 91one,
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1925.

GRATING AND lNNoCULATIoN. 1t is not I'M
reasonable to suppose that the benefits to be
derived from the ENGRAVING and innoculation
of fruit trees, are far from being fully realized.
Aside from the neglect of improving orchards,
where there is nothing to prevent but the dis
position to procrastinate and delay,-so preva-
lent with ALIVE believe that the process is of
much more extensive application than is gen.
orally known, and that it may be the means of
introducing the cultivation of fruits, now i'm
ported from abroad at great expense. 1t has
been ascertained that the shagbark walnut may
be successfully engrafted, and that the engraft-
ed trees are much the surest bearers Were
this not the case, the difference in the quality
of these nuts would make it an object to en-
graft most Of the walnut trees. Some have
very thin shell, and thick, large meat while
others have thick shell and but little meat.
1t is probable that the hickory, or shagbark,
would do WELL engrafted on the pig-nut If it
should, the quantity raised might be greatly in
creased, and the quality much improved The
Madeira nat, which is usually sold at the shops
under the name of the English ,oalnut, at I2l
to l6 cents per pound, may be cultivated here
without difficulty, and is very productive. In
the vicinity of New York, there is tree which
has produced, in single year, as many as sold
in the market for tDO hundred dollars. We
have no doubt that it might be engrafted upon
the butternut, or the walnut, with perfect sue
cess. tits tree of the same genuS, and in its
butternut than many other trees do to those on
which they are successfully engrafted. The
experiment is worth trying, and, if successful,
it would soon furnish us, at cheap rate, with
a good supply of that excellent nut, without
waiting the more tardy process of rearing the
tree.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02

The Moorish Prince, who has recently been
liberated from slavery at Natchez, has arrived
az Philadelphia, and intends before returning to
his native country, to visit the large cities and
towns in tho northern States, for the purpose of
procuring aid TO enable him to redeem his five
sons, who are still held in slaveryin Mississippi.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02

LIGHTNING RoDs. The season (Julv) is
near at hand, when your barns will he filed
with the products of your fields. And it is
certainly desirable after the labor and ex-
pense of filling them has been met, that
they should be preserved to remunerate this
labor and expense. You must, however, be
sensible, at least you will be, if you will re-
cur to facts, that your expectations of re-
ward for your toll are often cut short by
sudden stroke of lightning. This you can
prevent by erecting lightning rods to your
barns. After close observation for fifteen
years, | fearlessly assert that during the
months of July and August, that is, after
your summer crops are lodged in your barns
a greater number of barns are struck by
lightning, by twenty to one, than any other
objects of equal height and number The
reason is obvious to a careful observer, at
least it is so to philosophical one. The ex-
halations which arise from a barn filed
with hay and grain, recently gathered, are
great, and form a column of rarifed air,
which reach to a great height in the at
This column is direct attract
or and conductor of the electric fluid as
much so, as the smoke of an extinguished
candle is to an approximating flame. Erect
lightning rods to your barns, and the fluid
is conducted harmlessly to the earth.
Conn. Journal.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02

nicely OF THE LAW. Under this head,
several papers have noticed, with apparent
surprise, an acquittal ola man, in New York,
in consequence of mistake in the prosecut-
ing attorney, who substituted male for fe-
male in the declaration, charging the defend
ant as the father of an iligitimate child.
The Law books contain many cases of this
kind, which are much more striking. For
instance, it has been decided, that an indict-
ment, for stealing ttoo turkies, could not be
supported by evidence, that the prisoner
had stolen two dead turkies. So man,
who was indicted for stealing a PAIR of stock
ings, was acquitted, because it was proved
that the stockings were odd ores. Anoth-
er was acquitted, Of stealing duck, be-
cause the stolen oird turned out to be a
drake. Stealing the skin of dog, is lar
ceny, but stealing live dog, which is the
skin and something more, is no larceny !;
dogs being considered in law of base ma
ture, and not subject to larceny.
Salem Observer.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02
BUTTER.

The Trustees of the Massachusetts Society
for promoting Agriculture, have offered pre-
MUM of 800, the subscription of number OF
gentlemen of Boston and its vicinity, to the per-
son who shall exhibit the best butter not less
than 300 lbs. weight, at the Societys Hall in
Brighton, on the 14th day of October next.
The following is extracted from the Advertise
ment of the Committee, Richard Sullivan, Cor
ham Parsons, and T. ii. Derby:
The competition will not be confined to
persons within this Commonwealth, but
will be open to the citizens of all the New
England States.
To entitle any parcel to the premium it
must have been manufactured between the
first day of June inst. and the fifteenth day
of September, of which fact written dec
laration, under oath will be required The
preference will be given to that parcel
which has been longest made, provided il
is of a quality not inferior to any other.
The Judgment of the Committee in making
their award will be influenced by any APP
pearance of particular attention to cieanli-
ness and nicely in the manner of putting
up the butter.
AS further encouragement to competit-
ers, an opportunity will be afforded on
w euHesuay, Lne uay OF tne NIltle OnoW, 10
sell their butter at public auction at Brigh-
ton, without auctioneer's fees; when the
most liberal prices may be expected for
good butter; it being subject Of general
complaint that prime butter, except in small
quantities, is rarely in Boston market
while it is known that in other cities, par
ticularly in Philadelphia, the market is dai-
ly aud abundantly supplied with butter OF
the finest flavor, and put up in the incest
manner.
The state premiums for the same article
will be awarded as usual at the same time.
Applications to enter for the premium OF
one hundred dollars must be made to iona.
than Winship Esq, residing at Brighton
on or before Monday, the 18th day of Octo-
Der.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02

LONGEVITY. A negro woman died in
Jamaica, lately,aged 14c years. She we'll re-
membered the destruction of Port ROYAL
by an earthquake in 1899 What associa-
lions do not such persons raise in the reflect
ing mind They are living beings, and yet
not of present time. have somewhere
read of woman who died at Beauvais in
l7l0, and who remembered when Henry
~. besieged Amiens, which was in 1893 or
4. What an interesting conversation might
have happened between these two persons
respecting events, from 1898 to 100, and
what yet more interesting one between the
reader in 1925 and the negress. He might
talk of what till then seemed matter of bye
gone history. The negress might say, I" |
knew woman who saw Henry ". and
Elizabeth, Shakespeare and Raleigh, Bacon
and Johnson, James l. and Charles |. Crom-
well, Milton, Charles H., James H., and l
might say, William and Anne, and the four
Georges, one of whom reigned nearly sixty
years" What countless millions were born
and we're dust-what mighty events hap
pened-what turmoiling arose and died
away, while only two women ate, drank,
and slept out their protracted existence!
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02
WOODSTOCK, VA June Is.

WOODSTOCK, Val June u.
The Horn SNAKE. This beautiful spot
ted reptile, is rarely to be found. One of
extraordinary dimensions, upwards of five
feet in length, and as thick as mans arm,
was killed last week at the Union Forge.
A gentleman who saw the animal, describes
the horn, not as blunt protuberance from
the TAIL but a flint-har substance encased
in shield, and as sharp as needle, which
when attacked, the creature shoots from
the scabbard and inficts n wound which
would destroy any thing it encounters.
Naturalists have universally described the
weapon of this snake differently; we have
now correct account of it. The skin has
been taken off, and no doubt Mr.. Arthur,
the proprietor of the works, will present it
to one of the museums.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02
London Literary Gazette.

Coal IN PENNSYLVANIA. 1t has been
estimated, and we think with great proprie-
ty, that one third of the whole state of
Pennsylvania, is pervaded with coal, and
we may safely put this down as averaging at
least three feet in thickness. The whole
area of the commonwealth is 1880 square
miles; one third of this is 14,650-the area
ofthe coal fields. A square mile at three
feet thick will yield nearly four millions of
tons of coal. 1t is thus demonstrated that
the coal fields of Pennsylvania will supply
one million of tons, or twenty eight millions
of bushels focal annually, for nearly sixty
thousand years. Enormous as this compu-
tation may seem, we venture to say it is
much below the reality. Any one acquaint-
ed with the coal localities, we think, will
not object to the assumption, that one third
of the commonwealth is pervaded with coal
beds, and that these are over three feet
thick. 1t would indeed be nearer the fact
to say they average above six feet thick.
PHILADELPHIA .9urora.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02

Stolen PRoPERTY A quantity of Muskrat
Skins, supposed to be stolen, has been fonnd
in tho possession of person recently commit
ted to prison in this town. For particulars, see
advertisement.
The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-07-02

A TARTAR CAUeHr From a communion
ton in the Hanisburgh Intclligencer, signed
John NJ. Keagy M. d. we are informed that
young Tartar, called Abdalah Hamed, aged H.
is travelling through Pennsylvania, on his way
to Samarcand in Great Bucharia 1t seems he
was taken by pirates at sea, exposed in boat,
picked up by an English Captain bound to Que
bee, and there left to seek his fortune in the
world. He speaks no English, reads and writes
Arabic with huency, and understands the Per-
sian and Turkish languages In general knowl-
edge he possesses great attainments. His father,
who is called Achmed Hamed, is governor of
Samarcand. He has travelled from Quebec TO
Harrisburg, by the way of Plattsburg, and has
suffered much by tho way, in consequence of
his ignorance Of the English language, Ho is
DESTROYS Of reaching Philadelphia or this city,
and thence of finding conveyance to Constan-
tinopfe ~ y. Inquirer