Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-12

We have received copy OF the report OF a
Committee of the Common Council, on the sub
iect of nauperism. in which the purchase OF Barn
Island. living in the East river, a little eastward
of He'll Gate, as a suitable farm for the employ
ment of paupers. is strongly commented Inc
plan of providing agricultural occupation for per-
sons of this description, according to our recol.
lection. was first adopted III Massachusetts,; and
wherever it has been resorted to, II has been at
tended with the most decided success. The
committee state a considerable number OF lnstan-
ces, in this State as well as elsewhere, where the
experiment has been made; and the result has
been uniformly in its favor. In Jefferson county
in this state, the expense of supporting the poor
have been reduced from twelve thousand dollars
to three thousand; In OrsegO county, from SIX
thousand to seven hundred; in Greene county,
from FIVE thousand to sixteen huadred and twenty
five; in Rensselaer, county, from eight thousand
five hundred to three thousand. The expenses
for the support of the poor in this city for the past
year, are stated in the report to have amounted to
one hundred and fwenty four thousand dollars.
This fact is sufficient to call the attention of the
citizens, as well as the Common Council, to this
most interesting subject. If by procuring a farm
and setting the poor to work for their own support,
a reduction in the city expenditure for this spe-
citic object can be effected, in the same proper
ton that has occurred in other places. land why
it should not we are not able to ~discern,) it Is All
object Of very great Importance. In Jefferson
county, the expenses have been reduced, In this
mode, to one quarter of the sum previously ex-
pended. A proportionate saving in this city,
would bring the expenses to thirty one thousand
tu-three thousand dollars.
New- York Daily .4dr.
see3eeeasse-
We have just had a hearty laugh at two most
comical Lithographics. from the press of our wor-
thy citizens, the Messrs. Pendleton, copied by
the ingenious d. c. Johnson, from a print pub
lished in London in IVA. The first plate is cal
led {" A new method of Macarony Making, as
practised at Boston,; and represents one Of our
by-gone custom-house officers kindly provided by
our affectionate mother England, to aid her be-
loved children in procuring those things which
were needful, and to restrain them from wicked
propensities, such as writing on unstamped pa
per. drinking deleterious teas of their own max
ing, &c. &c. in a new suit of clothes, which some
generous Yankees in Boston thought more becOm-
ing to the dignity of the aforesaid officers than the
suit they had previously worn. The following
truly striking lines are given to elucidate the
print:
" For the Custom House Officers landing the Tea,
They tarred him and feather'd him just as you see;
And they drench'd him so well. both behind and be.
fore,
That he begged, for Gods sake, that they would drench
him no more"
They have a gallows over the poor fellows
head, and a rope around his neck, which one
holds whilst the otheris making ready to ''squirt
his dye-stuA:." as we say in the Fire Department.
The second plate represents the same %uufortu-
nate wight hauled over by three sturdy old iona
thans, one of whom is pouring down his throat
such a dose of this fashionable beverage, as we
believe the bare idea Of would throw our Rhino-
ceros, that heterogeneous compound of every
thing that is gluttonous, into indescribable at
tacks of pigeon fits. This one Is styled s. The
Bostonians paying the Excise Man, or Earring
and Feathering::" We think our friend Cowell,
should he ever attempt the Wild Man in Peter
wilkins again, had better take advantage Of this
becoming dress. We hope the plates may sell
well.-BOston Eu. Gar.
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