Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-03-09
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
BY HIS ExcELLENcY
LEVI LINCOLN,

A Proof A M ALTON
FOR DAY OF PUBLIcK FASTING, HUMILIATION
AND PRAYER.
With the advice of the Executive Coun-
Gil, appoint the annual FAST, recommend
ed by the example of pious ancestors, and
sanctioned BY the precepts of pure and ho-
~ religion, which teaches the dependence
of individual man upon the mercy of his
Creator. and the relation of communities to
the overruling Providence of the Sovereign
DAY, the EIGHTH DAY Of APRIL next, by
the people Of this Commonwealth.
A faithful review of the past, humiliation,
penitence, duplication, and prayer, are the
appropriate Offices of such an occasion. Nav
the people be sincere and devout in these
observances; and assembling together in
their respective places of publick worship
in the name and as disciples of Jesus Christ
their common Lord and Master, may they
be instructed by his Gospel, and influenced
by its spirit, to deep Contrtion for sin, and
animated and strengthened to resolutions of
future amendment, obedience, and fidelity
to duty. May they commend themselves, in
their weakness and wants; their country, in
all its interests; the State and National Gov
ernments, in their need Of divine direction
and guidance, to the continued favour and
blessing of Heaven. And remembering in
their prayers the ignorant, the injured, and
] the ens!aved of their fellow mem, may they
| implore for them the communications of
knowledge, relief from oppression, the en-
joyment of civil and religious liberty, and
social, moral, and christi an improvement.
The people are requested to abstain from
recreation and unnec essary labour on the
day of the appointed Fast.
Given at the Council Chamber, in Boston,
this first day of March, in the year of our
! Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty, and the fifty fourth of the Inde-
pendence of the United States of Ameri-
| ca. LEVI LINCOLN.
BY His Exceency the Governour, with the
advice and consent of the Council,
EDWARD D. BANGS, Secretary.
God save the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts.
THE Devon Cow. In late Baltimore
Farmer are some statements relative to
a full-blood Devon Cow, recently shown
in that city. She was bred by Mr.. Henry
Thompson, her sire and dam being from
England. At 8 I-2 years old, having had
but one calf, Is months since, and ceased
( breeding, she was fed for market. For ten
weeks previous to her being slaughtered,
her food was chopped corn, ruta baga, and
hay, from orchard grass, previous to which
she had never tasted grain. She fatted very
rapidly. The butcher certified that when
shown in market it was generally thought
she would 60 a little over 600 lbs. but to the
surprise of all, the four quarters actually
weighed 760 lbs. She cut up beautifully,
being very fat, very small boned, with light
err coarse pieces and less offal than any beast
he ever slaughtered. The whole weight
Iief the COW was-quarters, nett, $50 lbs.
rough tallow, 40; hide, 80; head and
tongue, 45-1025 lbs.
Ma. HAYNES LAST SPEECH. The
Charleston Mercury, in publishing Mr..
Haynes reply to Mr.. Webster's first speech
lis pleased gratuitousy to insinuate that Mr..
! w. did not deliuer the last speech publish
ed as his. The Mercury will perhaps be a
little surprised to learn that Mr.. Haynes
speech in reply to Mr.. w., which occupies
4 eight columns and half of the Intelligent
Ger of yesterday, took but half an hour in
its detiUery. We can assure the editor of
the Mercury, that the speech of Mr.. Web
tster, which has been so highly and so justly
praised, was published as it was delivered
and that not an idea, and scarcely word,
have been changed. We regret that we are
unable to say as much of Mr.. Haynes writ-
ten reply. The speech really delivered by
the Senator from s. c., and which was rath-
er plaintive and lugubrious affair, could
not have occupied t,0o columns and we have
no hesitation in asserting that three .fourths
of what has been published was never deliu-
ered We presume that Mr.. Webster, if he
should deem it necessary, would have per-
feet right now to prepare reply to Mr..
Haynes last abortive effort, and publish it
as his speech. We state these facts to
show the paltry shifts to which the friends of
the Administration resort to sustain them
selves and feeble and tottering cause.
The readers of the Mercury will not be able
to see distinctly or obscurely the nature
of the prouocations which compelled Mr..
| Hayne to take upon himself the vindcation
of the South because the provocatons
came from the SoIth and West, and were
groundless and wanton.--.Nat. Journal.
Mr.. HAyNE. Another speech of this
gentleman, (ten columns) following Mr..
Websier's second, and on the same day,
has come to hand. Surely Mr.. II. thinks
he !" shall be heard for his much speak
ing" He mentions that the constitution.
al argument in it was not delivered but
written as reply to Mr.. Webster. There
is very little in it. We think Mr.. H.
might as well have rested his case after
taoO speeches. But it shows anxiety and
uneasness in the position in which Mr..
Webster left him, and therefore does not
displease us.-Cent.
APPOINTMENTS BY GovERNouR AND
COUNCIL. Noah Claain. Esq. of Attlebor-
orgh, Chairman of the County Commission
ers for the County of Bristol.
Hon. John Mason, of Swansey, County
Commissioner for the County of Bristol.
Elijah Cobb, Esq, of Brewster, Inspector
General of Salt, for Barnstable and Dukes
County.
Samuel Leonard, Esq. of N. Bedford, In
spector Generalof Salt for County of Bristol.