Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-12-29
DOMESTICK NEWS

HE NAVY. The following is, we be-
lleve, correct list. of the vessels of the
U. .. Navy in Commission and now in SER
81, MEDITERRANEAN STATION. Delaware,
a, Commodore w. M. Crane. Java, A.
captain John Downes. Constellation, So
Capt. A. s. Wadsworth. Fairfield, .18, Mas
ter Commandant r. A. Parker. Licking
ton, IL, Mastera CommandanJ w, M. Hun
ter. Warren, Is, Master Com. C. w.
Skinner. Ontario, .18, Capt. T. H. Stevens,
Pacific STATION. Guerrero, A. Com
modore c. c. B. Thompson. st. Louis, IS.
MasterCommandantJ. d. Sloat. Vincennes,
-, Capt, Finch. Dolphin, 70, Lieut.. J. P.
WEST INDIA STATION. Falmouth 18,
Commodore Jesse D. Elliott. Erie, l8, Mas
ter Cont, Daniel Turner. Peacock, l8,
Master Cont. Err. Mccall. Hornet, 18,
Master Cont. Ohio Norris. Matches, Is,
( Master Commandant Alexander Claxton.
Shark, II, Lieut., Thomas T.. Webb. Gram
lpus, IL, Lieut.. w. K. Latimer.
BRAZIL STATION. Hudson, A, Commo-
dore Stephen Cassin. Vandalia,, l8 Mas
ter Cont. John Gallagher.---Jour. of Com.
FREEDOM OF THE Press. Upon this
subject every scribbling jackanapes in the
country writes an article, at least once a
month. lis the one great theme of the Ed
ltorlal corps. But IN aoltat does this freedom
lof the Press coqasist7 True we have no
laws, like.those Of the despotick countries
OF the East, prohibiting the publication of
what might give offence to Government, but
the American Press is, in reality, as com
pletely tramnelled, as that of the most en-
shaved nation of all Europe. The Europe
an Editors sacrifice Their independence to
the fear Of fine and imprisonment the
american Editors to the fear of hunger.
This may not be true of quite all Ed
itors in the Country, but that it is true of
seuen-eights of them is obvious to every
man OF common observation.
great majority of our newspapers are
the most miserable and bcggarly of all
things earthly. Take them together, thew
have just about five or six hundred sub
scrlbers, each-and, of course, it requires a
deal of ingenuity to prolong their existence.
The Editors dare not publish an article, that
would offend twenty of their subscribers,
Tor their periodicals could not outliue such
an event. They are like man floating on
an unfathomable Ocean, with his nose one
eighth OF an inch above water, and fearing,
every moment, that the weight of a cork
will fall upon the visible part of it, and sink
him irretrevably to the bottom. And this
IS the freedom Of the Press, of which SO
much is said. We hear the editorial broth
erhood boasting of their right to pursue
what path they please, while, at the same
time, the Genius of Famine is at their ell
bows, bowling to them" walk as YOU are
hidden or you will die of starvation
The American Press is not free. How
can 1T be made so? By encouraging men of
talent and genius to undertake its superin-
tendence. The periodicals issued by our
blockhead Editors, depend wholly for exis-
tence upon the patronage of their own. little
neighbourhoods. 1t would seem as if there
were Chinese wall, shutting each of them
IN upon an area of about twenty miles in d.
ameter, beyond which they can no more
pass than they can find their way to 9th err
planets. Bnt let men of strength and reso-
luton assume the direction of the Press, and
there would be different state of things.
Such men would be able to break down ev-
cry local obstacle, and safely set at nought
the paltry prejudices of villages and neigh
bourhoods. We have some such Editors
among US now-and their papers are the
salt, that preserves the American Press
| from the last state of moral putrefaction,
NJ E. Weekly Reuie,O.
JOHN HULL. This gentleman is known
as the superintendent of the first and only
mint established in the colonies of New
England while they were under the British
government. According to Mather's Mag
MALTA, che was the son of poor woman,
but dutiful to, and tender of his mother,
which Mr.. Wilson his minister of the First
Church in Boston observing, pronounced
that God would bless him, and although he
was then poor, yet he should raise great
estate" He was admitted freeman by the
Massachusetts Colony, in May 1649, and
when the mint was erected by the govern
ment of Massachusetts in 1862, for coming
shillihgs, sixpences and three pences, he
was appointed mint master. He was to coin
the money, " of the just alloy of the then
new sterling English money and for all
the charges which should attend melting,
refining, and coming, he was to be allowed
to take fifteen pence out of every twenty
shillings." A very large sum was coined,
by which he raised large fortune. The
General Court afterwards were sensible that
this was too advantageous contract, and
Mr.. Hull was offered large sum by the
court to release them from it, but he refus-
ed to do it. The first money was struck in
| 1862, and this date Yves continued on all
the pieces, although the coinage continued
for thirty years after. There was however,
a great variety of dies, but it cannot now
be determined in what years the pieces
were coined. Mr.. Hull was probably the
same person who was admitted in 1860 a
member of the Ancient and Honorable Ar
tlllery Company, of which he was elected
captain in 1878. He was also chosen treas
urer of the colony of Massachusetts in 1876;
and, in 1850 was elected assistant or coun-
sellor, an office which he sustained until his
death, on the goth September, 1853. He
left large personal estate, and one of the
best real estates in the country. He left
an only child, Hannah, was born in 1858,
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