Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-03-03
LANCASTER.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1929.

,T January brought by arrivals at New YORK 1here
i not word of intelligence from the East. The
engrossing items of the English papers seem to De
me Catholick question and the runaway bankrupt,
mentioned in former paper Some extracts VIII
lie found under our foreign head touching both these
.ub;ects reward of EaoOO has been offered in
England for the detection of Stevenson, the bank
supt and, as he is supposed to have come to TINS
country, Mr.. Parkins, party concerned, mas Of
Tered reward Of Si500 to any one who will arrest
and deliver him to him. In addition to this re-
ward of slO0 is offered as premium to the first
person who will communicate to Mr.. Parkms the
intelligence of his arrest.
THE RAlLRoADs. The whole sub
iect of internal improvement by means
of railroads from Boston to the interiour
of the State has been postponed by the
Legislature to the next session. The
resolutions which were passed are on the
whole more than was anticipated from the
Legislature and they are, we trust, an
indication of something to be done in
earnest at another session. At least the
expression of an opinion in favour appro-
priating the funds ofthe State to the OBJ
iect, by the present body of representa-
tiyes. will not fail to have its due inHu-
ence on the minds of their successors.
The object of the postponement seems to
have been principally to enable the gentle
men who may be delegated to the next
General Court to acquaint themselves
with the minds OF their constituents on
the subject. So much time, and so much
money have already been spent IN inves-
4igating the subject, that another Legis-
Iature should not be suffered to pass with
out acting dehnitiyely upon it. If the
voice of the people of this State is actu-
ally in favour of making general ex-
pertinent to increase its business, and con-
sequent wealth and Importance, we know
of no better way to express it than for the
electors. at the coming May meetings, to
select gentlemen for their representa-
tives who will promptly lend their aid to
effect the object.
A writer in the Centinal states that a
number of gentlemen of Boston are de-
sirous of forming company to construct
railroad from that city to Waltham,
Weston, Sudbury, Stow, Bolton, Lancas-
ter, Leominster, Fitchburg, Westminster,
and SO on to the mouth of Miller's River
in Brattleboro', and thence to Lake
Champlain. Also, a branch up the Deer
field River, over or around Hoosack
Mountain, to Troy, "being the most de-
sirable route for this interest of the CITY,"
That the route here mentioned to the
Hudson River is the most desirable one
for the interest of the city of Boston we
think there can be no question. Our
opinion has always been that the railroad
ought to take a route as far north as pos
sible. practicable, this northern route
would be found to possess immense adj
uautages over the one which has been Sc
lected by the commissioners.
LOOK OUT FOR A ROGUE. Several of
the merchants and traders of this town
have recently been brought to suffer pref
ty severely from the villainy of man who
came among us about three months since,
calling himself Jesse Briggs; against
whom it is our duty to caution the pub
dick, he having decamped for some other
scene of action
Briggs came here from one OF the
neighbouring towns, which he said he
quilted on account of the immortality of
the people, He purchased shop and
commenced preparations for establishing
himself in the cabinet-making business /;
and such was his department, the mo-
.desty and plausibility of his manners, and
the apparent honesty and sincerity of his
intentions, that he found no difficulty in
procuring credit to considerable amount
Having purchased two or three suits of
clothes, at different stores, wagon, har-
ness, &C., in all to the amount of about
two hundred dollars, for which he gave
dis notes, he deemed it expedient to re-
linquish his design of establishing himself
here, and accordingly, under pretence of
going to Boston upon business, he depart
ed, with two wagons in his train, and has
not since been seen or heard Of
Jesse Briggs is no doubt the real name
ofthis swindler, though he has assumed,
and will again probably, other names.