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NEW ENGLAND FvillMER. 



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several newspapers for advertising: said ticktls for salt-; 

 and that the trial of them would probably take place 

 at the next session of the Supreme Court — A message 

 was received from the Goiernor, transmitting the Pie- 

 port of the Board of Commissioners for the survey of 

 a canal route from the harbor of Boston to Connecticut 

 river, with the reports, plans, and estimates of the En- 

 "incer, together with a map, on which are delineated 

 the various routes which have been surveyed. 1000 

 copies were ordered to be printed. — Remonstrances of 

 the proprietors of Charles River Bridge and others were 

 referred to the committee on Bridges and Canals. — The 

 Court for the trial of impeachment of Pamuel Blagge, 

 was opened in due form, and postponed to the 17th. — 

 The committee on Roads, &c. was instructed to in- 

 quire into the expediency of providing by law for the 

 purchase by the state, of Turnpike Roads and Toll 

 Bridges, when the towns through which they pass are 

 unable to maintain them. 



JAN. 12. A number of private petitions were refer- 

 red to Committees, and the Senate adjourned at an 

 early hour to accommodate the Board of Overseers of 

 Harvard University. 



JAN. 13 — \ communication from the Adjutant Gen- 

 era! relating to the gratuity (o such old oilicers and 

 soldiers as were present at the Bunker IliU celebration 

 was read and committed. — The Judiciary Committee 

 were instructed to consider if any alteiations are ne- 

 cessary in the laws against the frauds and idleness of 

 Hawkers and Pedlars. 



J.^N. 14 — .A bill wa? reported authorizing the erec- 

 tion of a prison edifice so constructed as to confine each 

 convict to a separate cell, and imposing a penalty on 

 any one convicted of having conveyed any improper 

 ixplements or articles to the convicts. 



SZ O U S S. JAN. 11 — A resolution was adopted 

 fir inquiiing into the expediency of the purchase' by 

 tliis State of Turnpike Roads and Toll Bridges, in cer 

 tain cases. — Mr Sedgewick made a report, accompani- 

 ed with bill.", to establish the Mnssachusetls Seminary 

 of Praclical Arts and Scieiices, i-c. which was laid on 

 the table and ordered to be printed. 



JAN. 12 — Committees v.'cre appointed to inquire in- 

 to the expediency of establishing a Library for the use 

 of the members < f the Legislature — of revising the laws 

 regulating the impounding of cattle and sheep ; also 

 the laws respecting stray beasts and lost goods, ^and 

 imprisonment for debt. — A bill to establish the rate of 

 inteiest and to restrain the taking of excessive usury, 

 was read a second time. 



JAN. 14 — The managers of the impeachment pre- 

 sented fil'teen articles of impeachment against S, Blagge 

 — ''Ir Thacher of Yarmouth presented a resolution for 

 taxing salt works- — Mr Davis of Sandwich presented a 

 mniODrial on the subject of cutting a canal across Cape 

 Cod, which was referred to a joint committee. — The 

 Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry Company and the 

 Bridgewater Cotton Gin Manufacturing Company in- 

 corporation bills passed to be engrossed — The Commit- 

 tee on the Massachusetts Claim reported sundry reso- 

 lutions for the purpose of effecting the objects of said 

 claim. 



J Ay. 17 — The Rev. Orville Dewey of New Bed- 

 ford was chosen to deliver the Election Sermon on the 

 last Wednesday of May next. Sundry bills passed 

 stages, and private and local business was transacted. 



-An act has passed, during the present session of the 

 Legislature of Alabama, for removing the Seat of GoT- 

 ernment from Cahawba to Tuscaloosa. 



Proceedings of Congress. 



SENATE. JAN. 9.— Mr Van Buren reported 

 a bill to provide for increasing the number of the 

 judges in the Supreme CVuirt to nine, and extending 

 the Circuit Court from seven to ten. 



Mr. Lloyd reported a l)ill relating to duties on ton- 

 nage and imports : The bill providing for tlie security 

 of public monies was passed. 



Jan. 10. A bill for the survey of a route for a canal 

 between the Atlantic and the Gulph of Mexico was re- 

 ferred to the Committee on Roa I? and Canals. 



J.-\N. 12. A bill for the prevention of desertion from 

 the Army passed to be engrossed. 



HOUSE. -TAN. 6. Mr Webster offered an order 

 relative to reprinting the Journals of the House of Rep 

 resentatives. — The committee of Ways and Means was 

 instructed to inquire into the expediency of repealing 

 the provision of the law which requires the inspection 

 by appraisers, of merchanrlizc exported for debenture. 

 — The committee on the Judiciary w.is instructed to re- 

 port on the expediency of amending the laws regulat- 

 ing Copy rights, so as to give greater extension and se- 

 curity to the rights of authors and proprietors- — A re- 

 solve passed relative to the payment of the widows of 

 soldiers who die pensioners under the act of 1818 the 

 amount due to said soldiers at the time of their death, 

 without requiring said widows to take out letters of 

 administiation. 



JAN. 9. The committee on the Library was instruct- 

 ed to report on the expediency of providing for the more 

 gen'.ral, permanent and less expensive publicatiem of 

 the Laws and Reports of Judicial Decisions. — A report 

 was received from the Secretary of the Treasury, by 

 which it appeiired that the tonnage of the vessels built 

 in the United States in 1824 amounted to 30,939,00. 



It appears from the message of the Governor of 

 Maine to the Legislature, that there are upwards of 

 two hundred deaf and dumb persons in that state, nine 

 of which have been selected as proper subjects of edu- 

 cation at the American Asylum. 



Insurances in England. — A tax of 3,s on the lOOl in" 

 sured is levied in Eng. The amount of revenue arcru" 

 ing to the Government from this source for the las' 

 year is stated at 659,377/. sterling. The amount o' 

 property insured is, therefore about 439,585,000Z. 



M Fischer, the astronomer of Kordenbourg, near 

 Vienna, has predicted, from various meteorological 

 compaiisons and deductions, that the present winter 

 will be remarkable for intense cold. 



Grca( Failure. — The North West and Hudson Bay 

 Fur Company, under the control of iM'Gillivrays, Thin 

 Sc Co. located at Montreal, stopped payment 28th ult. 

 for the cnormiius sum of $850,000. The principal loss 

 will fall on individuals who have retired from business, 

 and loaned this company iheir money. 



Chrislmus Huliday.1. — The Massachusetts Spy of Dec. 

 28, contains the marriages of no less than ten young la- 

 dies at Barre, seven of whom belonged to that town. — 

 Of the bridegrooms, six we're of Barre, one of Ath'^l, one 

 of New Salem, one of Springfield, and one of Bridgport, 

 Vermont. 



The Albany Advertiser states, that on Sunday the 

 8th inst. Mr. Flint, of M.Tssachusetts, attempted to cross 

 the Hudson river at the upper ferry in Albany with a 

 drove of 95' sheep, bound eastward, when the ice gave 

 way and 500 of them were drowned, of which the car- 

 casses of 396 have been recovered, and the rest floated 

 under the ice. 



The French corvette ship Orphee, was capturtd by 

 the Maidstone, British Frigate, about the 1st of Sept, 

 after a long chase, on the coast of Africa. She, had on 

 board "00 slaves, bound to Martinique. Thsy were all 

 chained by the necks, sr by the legs to the deck, and 

 the bolts riveted. The between deck of the ship was 

 little more than three feet high. 



NEW PUBLICATION on the Useful Arts— entitled 

 The Great Source of Wealth, rontaining Recipes and 

 Patents in Chemistry and Manufactures, with praclical 

 Observations on the useful Arts original and compiled. 

 By David Beman. — •' Give me the facts, said the no- 

 ble Judge ; thy conclusions are but the guess work of 

 imagination which puzzle the braiu aud tend not to 

 solve this mystery." 



The above Book is printed wilh new type, fine pa- 

 per, and full bound with leather, and for sale by 5. 

 Ha-tings, Stationer, No. 18 Congress-street, and by the 

 author, No. 1 Prince's Buildings, Congress square, near 

 St.tte-street — Boston. Jan. 20. 



ENGLISH POTATOES— 'Ihese potatoes are from 

 the English Kidney seed, and have been amply proved 

 to be of excellent quality for family use ; posscsriug a- 

 bove all others raised this season, a superior flavour. — 

 Farmers who are desirous of iniproving the seed of this 

 most valuable vegetable, in eju..utily and quality, can 

 have a supply, by calling at the cellar under the church 

 in Chaimcey Place (near Summer street) any time dur- 

 ing the present and tin two ibilowing months, and it is 

 hopetl they will impre>ve the opportunity- — 'I hese pota- 

 toes are the same alluded to in page 190 of the New 

 England Farmer^ tf Jan. 20. 



JACKS AND n■.^■S£.V.-F^:LlX. a fine young 

 Jack, full 13 hands high ; DOJ^, a smaller Jack, seven 

 years old ; and one large Jennet, with a colt by hei' 

 side. Fors.^leby HENRY WATSON. 



East Windsor, Con. Jan. 16, 1826. 



I'KICES OF COUNTRY FKODLCl. ,5,ic. 



SEEDS.- For sale at this Office, Ruta Baga, Man- 

 gel Wurtzel, and Sugar Beet seeds, raised this season, 

 by John Prince, Esq. Roxbury. The Ruta Baga seed 

 is from superiour roots, from seed not three years since 

 from Bweeien. Also a few bushels of genuine Orchard 

 Grass seed, likewise raised by Mr. Priace. Jan. 26. 



[Corrected every Thursd.ny eve 



APPLES, best, 



ASHES, pot, 1st sort, - - - 

 pearl elo. . - - - 



BEANS, white, 



BP;EF, mess, 200 lbs. new, - 



cargo, No 1, new, - - 



" No 2, ni w, - - 



BUTTER, inspect. No. 1. new, 



CHEESE, BI.W milk, . . - - 

 skimed milk, - . - 



FLAX 



FLAX SEED -.-.-. 



FLOUR, Baltimore, Howard St 

 Genesee, . - - 



Rye, best, . - - 



GRAIN, Kye 



Corn - - - - . 

 Barley - . - - 

 Oats - - . - - 



HOGS' LARD, 1st sort, new, - 



HOPS, No 1, Inspection - - 



LIME, 



OIL, Linseed, Phil, and Northern 



PLAISTER PARIS retails at 



PORK, Bone Middlings, new, 

 navy, mess, do. 

 Cargo, No 1, do. - - 



SEEDS, Ilerel's Grass, - 



Clover . - - , - 



WOOL, Merino, full blood,wa5h' 

 do do unwashed 



do 3-4 washed 



do 1-2 do 



Native - - - do 



Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 

 do .Spinning, 1st sort 



PROJ'ISIOJV MJlRKET. 

 BF.EI'', best pieces - - - 

 PORK, fresh, best pieces, - 



" whole hogs, - - 



VEAL, 



.MUTTON, 



poll I TRY, . - - - . 

 BUTTER, keg & tub, - 



lump, best, - . 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, retail, - - - 

 Indian, do. - . - 

 POTATOES, - - 



CIDER, liijuor, - - 



TO 



D. C. 



1 75 



110 00 



2 25 



16 

 9 

 4 



II 



1 00 



00 

 75 

 75 



50 

 12 

 25 

 98 

 85 

 75 



00 

 8 . 

 90 

 40 

 50 

 40 

 35 

 55 

 45 



11 

 7 



6 

 6 

 8 



8 

 20 

 22 

 25 

 80 

 80 

 50 



