Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-11-24
DOMESTICK NEWS.

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capital in furniture, riding horses. carriag-
es, &C., and often live up to, or beyond,
their income. Farmers, to be sure, should
live quite as well as other men, of the
same property; and they have the means
of living better than others, possessing
the same nominal income, so far as the
substantial comforts of life are concerned.
But small savings are of great consequence
to persons Just setting out in life. A cent a
day is S3 IS a year. Ten cents day Ga
moderate allowance for dram-drinkers) is
more than $50 year. A prudent farmer
will do well, every cent he lays out for tri-
4 fles relating to his daily expenditures
which can, be dispensed with, without an
essential abridgment of his comforts, to
calculate in his own mind what that sum
will amount to in year. The aggregate
will be greater than he could have antci-
pated without the aid of arithmetick. In
regard to expense Of housekeeping, it is
observed by Sir John Sinclair thar " the
safest plan is, not to suffer it to exceed a
certain sum for bought articles, weekly.
An annual sum should be allotted for cloth
ing, and the personal expenses of the
farmer, his wife and children, which ought
not to be exceeded. The whole allotted
expense. should be considerably within the
| probable receipts and if possible, one
eighth of, the income annually received,
should be laid up for contingencies, or ex-
pended in extra improvements on the
farm.-Patriot.
OLD FoRTs IN SALEM. There has al
ways been tradition among our aged
citizens, that there was formerly fort
standing on the land through which Sew
all street now runs land it was stated by the
late Mr. Pynchon, to an intelligent gentle
man, now deceased, that the first general
Court of the freeman of Salem, was held
under tree standing on the field, where
this fort was. Some examination into
this subject recently made by a friend,
who is devoted to the study of our antiqui-
ties, seems to have established the fact,
that there was such fort. He informs
us. that on examining some of the Bentley
papers, in the Cabinet of the Antiquarian
Society, at Worcester, which he was kind
ly permitted by the Librarian, to consult,
he found an ancient manuscript, contain
ing the following information -
1884. A small fort aoas bmH on ye
high land, since Major SewaNs. Capt.
Trask, the first Captain in the patent, was
Captain of the Fort Company in Salem,
and was put on duty at his first coming
over he was a noted man, died in 1856
(should be 1861 and was buried in
arms"
There are references to this fort, not
lonly in our town records, but in the deeds
of land bounded on the field where the
fort was. In our Town records for Feb.
Cd, IVA, it is mentioned, that Major Ste
phen Sewall claims two commoners rights,
one new, and the other "old for the Fort,
that was in hrs ground"
1t is singular, that the late DR.. Bently
should have omitted a notice of this fort,
when he had this manuscript, which re-
lers to it, among the materials which he
consulted in preparing his history of Sa-
lem. He speaks ofthe first fort in Salem, as
having been on the Beverly side. 1t was
built by Conant's men, and was called
Darbe Fort. The land on which it stood,
is supposed to have been point of land,
which has been long ago washed away.
There is reason to believe however, that
DR.. Bently was mistaken, in fixing the To-
cation of this fort ON the Beverly side, and
that its site was on Naugus' head, where
an Indian fort had before been.
In 1862, the town voted to build fort
on Winter Island, and committee was
appointed to superintend its erection, but
it appears, that it was not finished for sew
eral years after, as in the records of the
Town for the 18th, Of the third month,
1866, we find the following vote
Its ordered, that the fort, upon Win
ter Island. shall be finished with all speed.
Mr.. Corwen, Lieutenant Hathorne, Ed
mund Batter, are appointed Committee
to oversee the work. Ordered, that the
Island, where the fort is, is appropriated
for the use, and the maintaining OF the
fort"
The twistings and turnings in the poIit-
ical world, often amuse us exceedingly.
The Albany Argus informs us that the
republican candidates for the Assembly
are Messrs. Wiswall, Vanderpool and Lap
ham. Now, two of these gentlemen we
know to be good sound federalists of the
old school--and though now partzans OF
General Jackson, very honorable men.
But having christened the above the re-
publican ticket, with unblushing. hippancy,
the editor turns round, and denounces the
other, which is the real republican ticket,
the federal nomination. The following
pleasant anecdote, from the Albany Daily
Advertiser, is in point Troy Repub.
Zone of the forty high minded men,
inquired Of republican of 1898, who had
been in favour of John @. Adams at the
late Presidential election, how he CAME