The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-01-27
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

ARIsTocRAcT." Every designing, DO
lltical knave finds it convenient to rail
against the " driStocraey," when he is labor
Ing to make himself somebody, at the ex-
pense of his country. The man who cleans
his own shoes and packs his own market
basket, is an "Gristocrat," if he stands I'D
manfully in the support of sound principles
ofgovernment, and openly expresses his con-
tempt for the ofice-seeking mob-Aatterers
Of the land. Almost every day, we have
evidence of this absurd accusation of" 0yis-
toerdcy," as inapplicable as in either case
here supposed. The aristocracy" of re-
ligion and of law, of native talent, and of
honorable principles, is the essential cement
Of society: the " 0ristoeracy" of birth and
wealth is now of little account.
Mr.. HEwIT, the Apostle of Temperance. left
this city on Wednesday last, for Norfolk, (Va)
The addresses he delivered in this place, upon
his great commanding theme, were full! of
power and appalling truth. No abstract which
we can give would do Justice 10 the force and
eloquenee of his appeals. His thoughts were
like the strokes of trip-hammer, quick com.
ing. hot, and heavy. He broke down the last
defence of the most strongly fortified. and
bound up with Irresistible energy the reason
and conscience of MANY to his uncompromising
purpose. We wish that all the moderate drink
ers through the earth could be congreOated
whore Mr.. Hewitt, with a voice of thunder.
might pour upon their startled hearing the
thousand woes and curses of this moderate
drinking. "An earthquake there, might reel
snheededly away.n-WashingtOn Spectator.
A MoEsTER. An English whaler arrived at
sechelles, in the Indian sea, not long since, in
charge of the third mate the captain, first and
second mate, and five seamen, having been
murdered by the cook. with a carving knife,
for not keeping which sufficiently sharp, the
captain had given him a box on the ear. The
enraged crew, in the jolly boat, chased the Ma
lay, who jumped overheard by the light of the
moon but just as they were about to seize him,
be threw away the knife, took his feet IN his
hands, and rolled some distance under water.
cheating them Of their vengeance
Coat is found in abundance upon the hank.
Of the river Kentucky, one hundred miles above
Frankfort. 1t is very much like Liverpool
Coal, though more bituminous, and is sold in
Frankfort at IL cents bushel. The bituminous
coal about Pttsburg, is believed 10 be inexhaust
Sble. II also abounds at the yellow banks. in
Kentucky, and at Wheeling, Ohio. At the for
mer place there is a mountain of it, three oyar.
tiers Of a mile from the Ohio, to which a Rail
way has been constructed. The Commentator
asserts that there 10 more bituminous coal in
abe states bordering on the Ohio, Missouri and
Mississippi, than there is land in the Island OF
Great Britain.
The Ogdensburg Gazette states that Cath.
ole priest on the Canada lines, has lately issued
. sort Of "ball," requiring all good Catholics,
married by Yankee ministers or magistrates, 10
be remarked laacfaLiy by him. An honest
gem Of the Emerald Isle, being sent for bv The
priest, and told what he ought to do, refused
TO be married at all, at all, unless he could
choose another wife, for Judy, with whom he
had TOUCHED it three years, had led him SUCH
life," az Barney talks Of.
SALT IN CHILI. Travellers report, that there
10 found on the cost Of Chill an incrustation Of
salt thirty milss long and several miles vide
II il about two feet thick, and resembles ice
When bar Gift is takan away the space il fill.
I'd up with new salt
NEw YoRK CANALS The number of boats
that arrived and departed from Albany during
the past season was 1880. The amount of
merchandise forwarded from Albany bv The
canals was 81, 900 tons, and the down freight 10
Albany was 75 500 tons, not including lumber
The chief items were 260,520 barrels of flour.
266, 2o7 bushels of wheat, and 336,4I5 bushels
Of corn, rye, barley, and oats.
MAKRIAGE. The learned Agrippa tells M
that all tho inconveniences Of married life hap.
pen. not 50 much through the fault Of the wo.
men, a. the negligence OF the men, for il sci.
dom hnppens that the women are bad unless
fheir husbands are worse.
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