The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-01-14
STATE AFFAIRS

STATE AFFAIRS.
PLYMOUTH DIsrRIcr 1t is ascertained, tina,
Hon Joseph Richardson is elected to the 2Ist
Congress from this District.
New HAmPsHIRE. The Legislature of this
state after session longer than usual, adjourn.
ed on Saturday, the Sd inst.
MAINE. The Legislature of this State con.
vened on Wednesday last and proceeded to the
organization OF the government for the current
year. In the Senate Nathan Cutler was chosen
president, and Ebenezer Hutchinson, Secreta-
ry. In the House of Representatives, the
whole number of votes for a Speaker was IA.
of which George Evans had 81, and was chos.
en-. For Clerk, the whole number was I12
and James l.. Child had 1876.
On the second trial, Gen Ripiev has been
reelected to Congress from Oxford District in
Maine In tho Eastern District, there is again
no choice. In 80 towns, Mr. O'Brian, the
present member, received 7S3 votes Mr..
Hathaway 468; Samuel Upton, Esq 245-oth-
ers 1856
NEW YORK. The Legislature met at Albany.
on the 9th inst. In the Senate the Lieut.. Gov.
ernor and 70 Senators took their seats. and in
the House l25 members answered to their
names. The House proceeded to ballot for
Speaker. and made choice of Peter Robinson.
Esq OF Broome. Gov Van Buren, transmitted
.'NNSSs
OHIo The House of Representatives have
aooptea resolution for the establishment of
state Bank 1T Cincinnati, and rejected reso-
luton to exclude colcred children from the hen.
ents OF the school law. The Senate of that
Slate nave passed resolution TO tax bachelors
ior the support Of schools.
How TO LEARN TO READ. By an article
in the Courier Francois ofOct. 28th. trans
latlon of which has been published in The
Baltimore Gazette, it appears that NJ Della
fore, lawyer of Agen in France, has dis.
covered mode of teaching children of or
binary intelligence, the art of reading. in
from nine to forty hours. His method ap-
plies to all languages. His discovery is
SAID to be the result of an accurate examin-
alton OF the laws regulating articulation.
language and the conventional signs of
sounds. 1t Is also said that his expe riments
on hundred children have been uniformly
successful, IN the average space 25 hours
that he has been congratulated by acade-
mes on his wonderful discovery and that
great Swans to whom he has communicated
ms secret, look upon him as having done
Tor the propagation of reading what DR..
Faustns did for that ofbooks. Like himLtoo.
Mr.. Delalore has experienced persecution
for his system has been pronounced diaboli-
cal, by the low clergy of Ardeche, who
have accommodated it's author and its
propagators.
BETTING. The Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania have recently decided, at Philadel-
PIMA, that wager made on the life of Ma
Poleon Bonaparte is not recoverable, at
law. Two, out of five judges, dissenting.
the other three ruled that as a general rule.
every bet about the age, or height, or
weight, or wealth, or circumstances and
of any person is either malicious
or indecent, or impertinent or indicate,
and that all such bets are illegal, and that
no court ought in any case, to sustain
suit on such Il wager; and this whether
the subject of the bet was man or woman.
or child, married or single, native or for
eign, In this country or abroad.
FRAUD ON THE REvENUE. The Ma
tional Journal of Monday, the 5th inst, con-
tains the Report of the Secretary of War,
made in compliance with a call of the House
of Representatives for information as to any
attempts that might have been made on the
Canada frontier to evade the revenue laws.
From this document it appears that extern
slve preparations have been made for car
rying into effect system of smuggling, first
suggested in the British Parliament, and
defended 10y many of the anti-tariff papers
IN this country.