venerable Charles Carroll, was adopted; than Phillips, Samuel May, Edward Sabbath School Union. A proposal to dissolve the Massachusetts Sabbath The Legislature of this state met at School Union, was submitted to a ConConcord on the first Wednesday in June. vention of Delegates from Baptist and The Senate chose Benning M. Bean, Congregational Churches, assembled for President; Charles G. Atherton, Clerk; the purpose in the Park-street Vestry, and John Whipple, Assistant Clerk. when the dissolution was unanimously In the House of Representatives, Frank: agreed on. The details of the settlelin Pierce was elected Speaker, having ment respecting the joint property were 205 votes of 208. James Clark was committed to the Board of both denomichosen Clerk, and Horace Chase, As nations, as it existed before the dissolusistant Clerk. The whole number of tion. The Congregational Life-memvotes legally returned for Governor was bers and Delegates of the Union met in 39,233; of which Governor Dinsmoor the Park-street Vestry on Wednesday, had 24,167, and was re-elected. Ichabod for the purpose of forming a new State Bartlett had 14,920, and there were 146 Society. À Constitution was adopted, scattered on the day of the general sident, William Reed, Marblehead. Vice and the following officers chosen : Preelection, (so called.) It is understood the usual military parade and election Presidents, Rev. Warren Fay, Charlessermon were dispensed with. On Thurs town, Rev. Alvan Hyde, Lee, Lewis day, the Governor communicated, by Strong, Northampton. Secretary, Geo. Message, a partial exposition of the af E. Head, Boston. Treasurer, Charles fairs of the State. The Message states Scudder, Boston. Managers, Reverend that it will be necessary, under existing Gulliver, Rev. Rufus Anderson, Julius Samuel Green, Charles Stoddard, John laws, for the Legislature again to assemble in the autumn, to determine the A. Palmer, Boston ; W. B. Bannister, choice of Electors of President and Vice Brookfield, Rev. Sylvester Holmes, N. President of the United States. It was Bedford, Reverend Gardiner B. Perry, therefore suggested that the session Bradford, Rev. Milton Badger, Andomight have a speedy termination. ver; Samuel H. Archer, Salem ; Rey. John Maltby, Sutton ; Rev. Nehemiah Adams, Cambridge. American Unitarian Association. The the month of May, is the season appro- Seventh Anniversary of this Associapriated for the anniversary meetings of tion took place on the evening of Tuesnumerous Religious and Benevolent So. day, the 20th. After the acceptance of cieties in the city of Boston. The fol- the Treasurer's Report, the following lowing notices of the celebrations of gentlemen were elected officers for the some of the most prominent of these in ensuing year :stitutions, are epitomized from their se Rev. Dr. Bancroft, President; Messrs. veral reports, or from extended accounts Joseph Story, Massachusetts; Joseph in the newspapers of the week. Lyman, do. Charles H. Atherton, Massachusetts Bible Society. The New-Hampshire; Stephen Longfellow, twenty-third annual meeting was held Maine; William Cranch, District of on Monday, May 28th, at which the Columbia ; Samuel S. Wilde, Massausual business was transacted and the chusetts ; Samuel Hoar, do.; William Reports made. The Officers chosen Sullivan, do.; Henry Wheaton, Newwere Rev. JOHN PIERCE, D. D. Presi- York; James Taylor, Pennsylvania ; dent; Rev. Henry W’ARE, D. D. Vice Martin L. Hurlbut, do. ; Henry Payson, President; Rev. Francis PARKMAN, Maryland; Rev. Timothy Flint, Ohio, Corresponding Secretary; Rev. Will- Vice-Presidents; Rev. James Walker, JAM JENKS, D. D._Recording Secre- Samuel Barrett, Ezra S. Gannett, Ditary ; Messrs. John TAPPAN, Treasurer; rectors; Rev. Henry Ware, Jun., ForHENRY EDWARDS, Assistant Treas- eign Secretary ; Rev. Alexander Young, urer; EDWARD TUCKERMAN, Auditor. Domestic Secretary ; Henry Rice, Trustees. Rev. Abiel Holmes, Chas. Treasurer. Lowell, William Jenks, John Codman, The Association adjourned at seven Daniel Sharp, James D. Knowles, N. o'clock to the Federal-street Church. L. Frothingham, F. W. P. Greenwood; the Executive Committee's Annual ReMessrs. Joseph May, Heman Lincoln, ports were read by Rev. Mr. Young, the Samuel Hubbard, N. P. Russell, Jona- Domestic Secretary, and by Rev. Mr. Barrett, for Professor Ware, Jr. the absence of the President, Samuel T. Foreign Secretary. The Reports, which Armstrong, the chair was taken by John were both of them able and highly in- Tappan, one of the Vice-Presidents. teresting papers, communicated much The Treasurer's Report was read and information in regard to the spread of accepted. The receipts of the Society Unitarian Christianity during the past for the year were $2915 53; expendiyear, and its prospects for the future, tures, $3035; balance due the treasurer, both in this country and abroad. After $119 47. Louis Dwight, Secretary of the reading of the Reports the meeting the Society, read parts from the annual was briefly addressed by Rev. Dr. Ban- report, which, on motion of Alexander croft, the President, Rev. Messrs. Bige. H. Everett, seconded by the Rev. John low, Lothrop, Sewall, and Judge Story. Pierpont, was accepted and ordered to At five o'clock on Thursday evening a be published under the direction of the meeting of the Association for business, Secretary. was held in the Berry-street Vestry. The Massachusetts Society for the SupAfter a full discussion of the expedien- pression of Intemperance held its twency of adopting measures for the appoint- tieth anniversary in St. Paul's church. ment of a General Agent, they voted to The Hon. William Sullivan delivered proceed immediately to the choice, and an address on the origin and evils of inon counting the votes, Rev. Ezra S. Gannett was found to be unanimously Society was held on Thursday evening, temperance. A public meeting of the elected. at the Masonic Temple, when Mr. HilThe Sunday School Society held its dreth, agent of the Society, read a Republic annual meeting in the Federal- port, and remarks were made by Dr. Street Church. An interesting Report John C. Warren, President, Hon. Jonawas read by Dr. Flagg, in which the than Phillips, Rev. Prof. Palfrey, John condition and prospects of the Sunday Tappan, Esq. Rev. John Pierpont, Dr. schools connected with Unitarian par- Shattuck, Rev. E. S. Gannett, H. Gray, ishes, both in the city and out of it, Esq. Dr. Walter Channing, S. Fairwere represented as being highly en- banks, Esq. and others. couraging to the friends of these institutions. After the reading of the Re The American Temperance Society held its meeting in the Park-street Church, port the meeting was addressed by Messrs. William Sullivan of Boston, Presidents, in the Chair. Extracts from Hon. Samuel Hubbard, one of the ViceSolomon Lincoln of Hingham, S. C. Phillips of Salem, Rev. Č. Brooks of the annual report were read by the Rev. Hingham, Rev. S. J. May of Brooklyn, The last report of the society was stere Dr. Edwards, Secretary of the Society. Conn. Rev. F. A. Farly of Providence, otyped ; 10,000 copies have been printR. I. Rev. A. B. Muzzey of Framingham, and Rev. E. T. Taylor of Boston. ed, and most of them distributed. They have been sent to all parts of the United The Convention of Congregational States ; to the British North-American Ministers met according to long estab- Colonies; to England, Scotland, Irelished usage, at 5 o'clock in the after land, France, Switzerland, Germany, noon of Wednesday. Mr. Wisner was Sweden; to Eastern and Southern Asia, re-elected Scribe, and Mr. Young chos- to the Sandwich Islands, &c. &c. În en Treasurer in place of Mr. Frothing. London it has been reprinted entire. ham, who had resigned. The usual busi- Three state societies have been formed ness of the Convention was transacted during the year; and state societies with harmony. Prof. Stuart of An now exist in all the states of the Union, dover was chosen second preacher for except Alabama, Louisiana, and Misthe next year, and the Convention ad souri. The whole number of societies journed to the next morning. On in this country is supposed to be at least Thursday, after attending to the cus- 4,000, and the number of members not tomary business, the members proceed- less than 500,000. There are as many ed at 11 o'clock to the Brattle-street as 100,000 members of societies in church, where a sermon was preached Great-Britain and Ireland. The prinby Mr. Jenks of Boston. After the ser- cipal object of the report was, to show mon a collection was taken, amounting the enormous wickedness of the traffic to $96 25. A large number of the in ardent spirit, and the duty of ChrisConvention dined together at the Ex- tians and Christian churches in regard change Coffee-House, where a dinner to it. The Rev. Dr. Hewit appeared as had been provided by the liberality of the Foreign Secretary, for the United gentlemen of this city. States, of the British and Foreign TemThe Prison Discipline Society met at perance Society. His object was to the Park-street Meeting-house. In the show the expediency and duty of send 1 1 703 20 to 30 720 208 62 over 60 4279 66 ing out from this country some well. per, glass, sheet lead, lead pipe, iron, qualified person, to England, to act as starch, gunpowder, soap, candles, drugs, agent of the British and Foreign Tem- oil vitriol, and other acids, barilla and perance Society, in establishing Tem- other chemicals, used in the county by perance Societies in all the capitals of bleachers, dyers, calico-printers, soapEurope. boilers, and other artizans, are more exBunker Hill Monument Association. tensive than in any other section of our At a meeting of the Bunker Hill Mon- country of equal extent, employing in ument Association, held at Faneuil the aggregate $1,050,255 capital, vested Hall on the morning of the 18th of in real estate, machinery, tools, &c. and June, Dr. Abner Phelps took the Chair, producing manufactured articles of the as President, and the Association pro annual value of $3,565,613.* ceeded to the choice of a Secretary pro Census of Lowell. A census of this tem. N. P. Russell, Esq. was chosen. place was taken on the first of June by Messrs. William Sullivan, Joseph Cool order of the town, which exhibited the idge, Alexander H. Everett, Pliny Cut. following result :ler, and David Kimball were chosen a White Males under 10 years of age, committee to collect, sort and count from 10 to 20 563 the votes for the officers of the society 1996 for the ensuing year. The committee 40 to 50 reported that the whole number of votes 50 to 60 was 455, and that the following gentle 27 men having more than 400 votes each, were elected to the respective offices : White Females under 10 years, 771 William Prescott, President; John C. from 10 to 20 1465 Warren, William Sullivan, Vice-Presi 20 to 30 2713 dents; Edward G. Prescott, Secretary; 30 to 40 638 Nathaniel P. Russell, Treasurer. Di 40 to 50 50 to 60 Total, 10,234 30 to 40 Hammond, John Harris, Abbott Law 40 to 50 rence, Samuel Lawrence, Francis J. Oliver, Francis Peabody, Thomas H. Total, 12 Perkins, Stephen C. Phillips, Leverett Colored Females under 10 Saltonstall, Robert G. Shaw, John 10 to 20 Skinner, Wm. W. Stone, Israel Thorn 20 to 30 dike, Joseph Tilden, Nathan Tufts, 30 to 40 Charles Wells, John D. Williams. Total, Manufactures in Middlesex. It will be seen by this enumeration meeting of Farmers, Manufacturers, and Mechanics, held at Concord, on the that the whole population on the first of June was 10,254 ; of which 5955 are fe13th of June, sundry resolutions were males. By the enumeration in January adopted, remonstrating against a relin- 1828, there were 3532; of which 2190 quishment of the protective system. In were females. By the census of June the preamble to these resolutions it is 12, 1830, there were 6477 ; of which 4085 stated that, in the county of Middle- were females. It will be seen that the insex, the cotton manufacture employs crease from January, 1828, to June, 1830, $3,129,000 capital, vested in real estate, and machinery ; consumes 6,913,880 * Since the resolutions referred to were pubpounds of cotton; produces annually lished, a gentleman concerned in the manufac20,378,849 yards cloth; employs 3896 tories at Lowell, has informed the editors that hands; pays in wages $731,751. In the statement here given falls far below the truth, and has given the following as a corrected the same county the woollen manufac- statement. ture employs $394,999 capital, vested The whole capital invested is $6,250,000 in real estate and machinery ; consumes giving employment to nearly 4000 hands, who receive wages to the amount of $750,000, and 899,000 pounds wool; produces annual- make 22,000,000 yards of cloth, using 7,000,000 ly 849,300 yards woollen cloth, flannels pounds of cotton annually. It is probable that and carpeting, employs 653 hands; and an accurate statement of the condition of other branches of manufacture would also be found pays in wages $152,041. The manufac greatly to exceed the amount stated in the pretures of leather, boots, shoes, hats, pa- amble mentioned above. 1821 1823 66 85,198 1828 1829 1830 1831 6 85,090 being one year and five months, was By the following table, showing the 2945; and from June, 1830 to June, number of children between four and 1832, 3777. The proportion of females sixteen years of age, returned from the is not so great as by the former census. years 1820 to 1831, both inclusive, it RHODE-ISLAND. would appear, that the number of perCity of PROVIDENCE. The organi sons in this state, between the above zation of the City Government of Prov ages has decreased since 1824, and that iť increased during the past year but idence took place at the Court House on five. Whether such is actually the the second Monday of June. The oaths of office were administered to the fact, we are unable to say. No. of Children returned in 1820 was 84,179 Mayor and Aldermen by the President 66 85,017 of the Town-Council, and by the 1822 84,945 Mayor to the members of the Common 84,930 Council. Richard M. Field, late Town Clerk, was unanimously chosen City 85,167 1826 85,163 Clerk. The Mayor delivered his In 1827 85,147 augural Address in the presence of a 84,899 large audience. He spoke of the " 85,006 newly adopted form, as one not tending 66 85,095 to impair the rights of the people, and stated the object in obtaining the Char PENNSYLVANIA. ter to have been, not to obtain more The Legislature of this state recently power, but to administer the power adopted the following Resolutions—the already possessed with more prudence, House of Representatives, unanimouseconomy, and energy. A great part of ly; the Senate 20 to 12. the Address consisted of an appropriate Resolved, fc. That we view with the and lucid exposition of the powers and most serious apprehension any attempt duties of the new officers. After the to lessen the restrictions upon the imAddress, the Mayor and Aldermen portation of any articles of foreign retired to the Senate Chamber, and the manufacture, or production, which may Common Council was organized by the compete with articles of similar growth, appointment of Mr. George Baker, production, or manufactures of the President, and Mr. Thomas B. Fenner, United States. Clerk. That a reduction of duties upon artiCONNECTICUT. cles, the like of which are neither manThe School Fund. The following ufactured or produced in the United facts are taken from the report of the States, or which does not materially Commissioner of the School Fund, made affect the industry of the country, to the legislature, at its late session, would meet the approbation of our conabridged in the Hartford Review. stituents. The whole Capital, as ascertained on the 1st of That the People of Pennsylvania never April, 1831, consisted of the following items : can consent to an abandonment of the 1. Bonds, Contracts and Mortga Protective System. $1,423,716 42 That if a reduction of the revenue 2. Bank Stock, 99,950 00 3. Cultivated Lands, and Build becomes necessary, we should prefer a ings, 196,595 90 prohibition of the introduction of arti4. Wild Lands, 164,144 60 5. Stock and Farming Utensils, cles of foreign fabric and production, 1,320 00 6. Cash on hand of principal, the like of which we are successfully 17,230 95 manufacturing and producing, to any Amount of Capital, $1,902,957 87 reduction upon protected articles which The subjoined table shews the num. we can produce and manufacture as ber of children in the state, between cheaply and as good amongst ourselves. four and sixteen years of age, as enu That we view the American System, merated in August, 1831, and the as a whole, which requires the united amount of dividends made in the year and concentrated operation of its friends ending March 31st, 1832. against all attempts to attack it in deChildren. Dividends. tail, and that no steps should be taken Hartford County, 14,467 13,020 30 to preserve one portion of it at the exNew Haven 11,919 10,727 10 New-London 12,229 That the confidence of one interest Fairfield 13,308 11,977 20 8,007 7,206 30 in the aid and fellowship of another, is Litchfield 12,239 11,015 10 the true shield of safety of the friends 7,299 6,569 10 Tolland of the protected industry, and that such 5,627 5,064 30 confidence should be cultivated and re85,095 76,585 50 lied on throughout the union. 10 as ges, pense of another." Windham Middlesex VOL. III. That connected as the prosperity of ships, on such different branches of agriculture and manufactures are with science as may be found compatible the successful financial operations and with their means, with public taste, and sound currency of the country, we view the public wishes. It is designed to the speedy re-chartering of the Bank of make most of these lectures accessible the United States as of vital importance to the great mass of population, and so to the public welfare. to arrange them, as to render them valThat the Governor be requested to uable for the practical purposes of every transmit these resolutions to our repre- class of society. The hope is cherished, sentatives in Congress, to be laid before that the Mechanics Institute, the Lycetheir respective bodies. um, and the public library may be in duced to connect their exertions with OHIO. the college. It is felt to be bad policy, Cincinnati COLLEGE. The Trustees in such a society as ours, to divide and of Cincinnati College have published an ramify public institutions, having the Address to the people of Ohio, from same great object in view. To produce which we collect the following facts and proper effect, exertion 'ought to be constatements : centrated. The foundations of good The institution, known as the “ Cin- libraries are already laid in the institucinnati College,” began, as a common tions before mentioned. When brought school, organized on the Lancasterian together, they will even now do credit plan, in connexion with a grammar to the city. The liberality of an indischool, in the year 1814, under the name vidual has placed that valuable instituof the “Cincinnati Lancaster Semina- tion, the Mechanics Institute, in posry.” In 1819, it was incorporated as a session of an excellent philosophical college, under its present title, with the apparatus ; public attention is awake, understanding, that the preparatory and much may be expected from public schools were still to be kept up. The and private liberality, to associations in endowment of the College, existed in a a united attitude, which might be looksubscription, liberal, indeed, when it is ed for in vain when in a state of sepaconsidered that it emanated from the ration. enterprise of a few citizens of the city. From an estimate furnished, it is But auspicious as this subscription was thought that about three thousand dolto the future prospects of the establish- lars will cover the requisite repairs, in. ment, the sanguine hopes which were cluding such an alteration of the front, at first cherished by it were destroyed as will render it ornamental to the city. by the adverse circumstances which This amount it is believed can be raised soon after pervaded Cincinnati and the without difficulty, if the benefits likely west generally. Sufficient, however, to flow from its application be properly was secured to finish the building, and, appreciated. Individuals stand ready with subsequent rents, to pay all claims and pledged, to enter on the important against the corporation. duties of instruction; some, where exCollege classes were organized, with pense and trouble are involved, with no several professors, and the institution, expectation of compensation but from under a variety of aspects, continued to their own exertions; others, looking to exist until the year 1827, when, from the good they may do, as a sufficient the want of pecuniary means, all opera- reward for the services they may render. tions were discontinued; the prepara- With these prospects and facilities of tory schools, which had also been sus- creating one great Institution, in which tained, ceased at the same time; and shall centre the different Literary and the edifice itself, or as much of it as was Scientific Associations of Cincinnati, practicable, was rented out. The re- the Trustees cannot think it possible ceipts have not been regular, and by no that such an edifice as the College will means sufficient to keep the building in be longer suffered to attract attention repair. Dilapidations, always great in by its unseemly aspect. With sanguine proportion to the non-occupation of so hopes of success, the Board now appeal large a house, have taken place; and to their fellow citizens, and ask them for this pile, founded under flattering aus such contributions as their several means pices, presents now a spectacle in strong may justify, and as the importance of contrast with the other public buildings the object merits. of the city. Education. There is a very interestIt is thought practicable by the Boarding and valuable institution for the eduof Trustees, in addition to what schools cation of school teachers at Marietta, are to be carried on in the College, to Ohio, which was established about two create certain professorships or lecture- years since, and is capable of being ren |
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