The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • 3

I of the first day were occupied in organizing the meeting! and hearing statements from different sections of tbe a exhausted and all the water in the pumps and you gave thesignal for chase with allspeed the people wearied with a whole inces and without dur closing (sir subjeciona fama a ei 4 Committee 1 In haste yous dec 3 i Gio PxwXQCjK JlKStsnUry? I jjjhfecwcd enclosed in proper coffins were placed i I i i i i id i sant and unavailing toiL found themselves this inbnting able to make but a feeble resistance to the still raging and devouring flames A hum ber of persons had been killed by the blowing up of houses and throwing furniture into the streets The steamboat Neptune lying in the "Bay caught on fire but it was fortunately ex 7 languished i The trunks directed to this office and the Constitutional office from the newspaper offices in Charleston failed to come this evening as we presume no papers were printed there last night and as the regular mail was closed last night before the fire broke out no other inform ation had been received here than that from passengers which is necessarily limited as to particulars This is indeed a mournful catastrophe! A flourishing city laid in her people burnt out of home and substance and millions of pro perty destroyed in a single The Insu rance Companies of Charleston are of small capitals and will every one no doubt be ruined and still be unable to make good but a small portion of the losses Hundreds of families must be utterly ruined by this general calamity years cannot make Charleston whatjfhe was Printed slips received from the offices of the Charleston Courier and Patriot afford the con solation of knowing that those offices have es caped the flames but they furnish nothing to mitigate the extent of the general calamity of which our readers had information in our last 1 The fire began about nine on the night of riday April 27th and was not check ed until about'noon on the next day having raged with great fury for fifteenUiouis The number of houses burnt is stated in these slips (which come down to 5 on Satur day) at one thousand We add a few of lhe particulars from the hurried state ments jvhich they contain National Intelli gence' 5 I whole area with the exception of a few houses from St Philip street to the' waters of Cooper river bounded by Hasel I and Society street is swept through as by an avalanche leaving nothing but baie and blackened chim neys 1' The fire was arrested in all about 12 having burnt for 15 hours un remittingly 1 The amount insured in Charleston is about 000 of which it is supposed the offices here will be able to pay about 60 per cent a considerable amount on' goods is insured in New Yofk the most melancholy part of ouriduty remains to be performed to wit the record of the death of valuable lives Among those who perished from want of caution in blowing up houses was Colonel Steedman long known in our community for his valuable quali ties 'Capl Duff of the ship Herald Messrs red Schnierle andJ Piert Among those i seriously injured by Were Messrs Brown and Mr Torley Several blacks i were killed from the same 'i' cion) I endeavored by press cof sail to cut her her off steering southeast clearing away to be ready for action and taking the other precau tions but onseeingthat she was bearing down on my starboard bow I ordered all my? men to take their proper fire and cutting arms to be ready for an attempt to board While we were thus sailing toward each oth er as you saw our distance was necessarily be coming less and seeing that her stern flag was that of the United States I hoisted mine with a pendant and fird a gun without ball I clew ed up my' mainsail in order that she should stop her engine for 'me to examine her but this was not done and as on the contrary her movements towards me were very suspicious I ordered another gun to be fired with ball in a direction very wide of the steamboat which was done as a notice for her to stop Instead of doing so however she continued on her course as if with a view of getting past me to the leeward When I got within a speaking distance I hailed three times with a trum pet and she did not design to give any reply "to either call On the fourth call an individual answered loading me with abuse and telling me if I wanted to see his papers I should come on board his boat A1 this was spoken with out the speaking trumpet and although he was called upon to stop lb order that his papers anti his boat should be visited he did not do so but on the other hand continued to insult my polit ical insignia by the grossest obscenities and language In consequence of the proceedings I fired two cannon and three muskets not aimed at the steamer for the purpose of intimidating her that she should do as required She however took no notice of it but continued on her way' letting off her steam which was very high so near me that the ashes and some warm water fell on board of my vessel and Liberty Oh motion of Mr Cushing referred to the Committee on oreign Affairs THE MEXICAN OUTRAGE As the so called has made some noise the following" papers communicated the House to day' from the Executive in re ply to Mr resolution of the 16th uh will tg? found interesting There can be little doubt of the truth of the Mexican story It bears marks of for the con duct irpputed to our countrymen is in keeping with the genera! tone in which the Texan re volt has been assumed by our citizens towards Mex ico They the Americans) says the His pano Mexican insulted my political insignia by the grossest obscenities' What an indignity to offered io a government vessel of a friend ly nation If the commander of the Iterbide had had much ofthe old Castilian in him he would not have passed over the insult so easily As it was however he scared his assailant mor tally by firing cannon and three aimed at the steamer' The following were communicated as the on ly papers in the possession of the Government vn su eject Journal of commerce Phila ifth month 2d 1333 rom the Augusta Chronicle of April 28? TERRIIC AND DISASTROUS CONL A GRATION AT CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA? We learn with the deepest regret by passen gers from Charleston who arrived this evening by the Carolina Rail Road that the city of Charleston dtas been visited by one of the most awful and destructive fires that has ever visited any city in the United Stales ONE THIRD THE CITY WAS LAID IN ASHS at the departure of the cars this morning at 6 o'clock The fire broke out at a quarter past 8 in a paint store on the western side of King street corner of sBercsford street The wind blowing strongly from the southwest blew the flames diagonally across King street and at the 5 time of the departure of the cars the whole sec tion of the city above Beresford street up' to Society street and east ofKing street to the Bay was burnt down or burning rom Beres fora to Society are four' from King street to the Bay about as many or perhaps more The fire had also extended four or five blocks west of Kirfg street and was still pro gressing with terrific rapidity by that street in the direction of Boundary street when the cars left Our informant believes it impossible to calculate what will be the ultimate extent of the fire as it seemed in no way checked at 6 o'clock this Tnornmg Among the buildings consumed are a number of the new theatre the splendid new hotel recently erected and the whole market except the fish market nearly all the large merchants in the centre of business on King street were burnt out: among them Parish Willey Co Kelley Co? a nd Bor eam Cqand all in that neighborhood and the large store house of Miller Ripley Co on the corner of King and Society streets' was catching the flames when our informant left The Hotel formerly had not caught but it was believed to be impossible to save it At Hotel still higher up King street and on the westide they had removed all the furniture andkbedling in almost certain anticipation of being burnt out A large number of houses had been blown up Jo no purpose AH the powder in the city was New York Tuesday afternoon Deak riend Knapp The great anniversary meeting of the American Anti Slavery Society was held this forenoon in the Broadway Tabernacle and has undoubtedly given a fresh impulse to our holy enterprise in connection with the very im portant business meetings of the delegates The audi i ence was worthy of the occasion and at the eniof four or five hours from the time of assembling seemed re luctant to depart The meeting was opened with prayer by the Rev Titnoljiy Merritt of Lynn A select and very pertinent portion of Scripture was read by Rev EMP Wells of Boston John Rankin the Treasurer of the Society made a report by which it appeared that the total receipts into the treasury from' May 7 1837 to May 7 1838 had been more than forty three thousand dollars notwithstanding the terriblg depression of the tunes and the expenditure more than forty five thousand leaving the Society somewhat in debt Henry Stanton read a highly interesting portion of the Annual Report of the Executive Committee in which it was ot thot tho iiivicaw vC new societies fur the past year bad averaged one a day The total number of publications printed during the same time amounted to 6 16000 Thirty eight travelling agents had been in the field making in the aggregate amount of labor equal to twenty seven years The whole number of persons whose signatures had been forwarded to the House of Representatives at Washington praying for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia had been ascertained to be of men 213391 and of wo men 201077 and nearly as many to the Senate But I have not time to go into further particulars Speeches were made by James Birney Edmund Quincy of Boston Dr James McCune Smith of this city Gerrit Smith of and Alvan Stewart of Utica i (The Charleston ire A slip from the office of the Charleston Mercury of the 30th ult gives some' further" intelligence respecting the late destructive fire at that place number bfjlwellings and stores de stroyed including old Rice Mifls wharf set on fire by flakes falling on a pile of light wood and burnt to the ground 560 The number ofout buiidins destroyed estimated at about total uunibet of buildings destroyed 1158 Such is the me rtf arithmetic of this frightful calamity who nall count the mental saffering the loss of hope of security of com fort Upon the best estimates which have been made to us up to the latest hour we set down the loss of property at over 8309000 The rayhole atnount'covered by insurance is not far from 145000007 Of this 875000 falls upon rthe Georgia offices at Augusta The new Ho tel was insured in this city for and 840 0i0 in Augusta It is believed nolv that the offices here will (pay all or very nearly all of their in the hearses of the city which! not being suffi cient to convey them the necessary number of carriages were added 3Vhen the procession was prepared to 'move Broadway to ourth street arid the contiguous approaches of the in tersecting streets wire literally choked with one crowded jam of human Among all these no word was spoken no look of was indulged The universal! feeling was too? deep for any such sensation to be felt The progress of the procession so vast in numbers' so solemn in manner made every where on its line of movement the deepest im pression Sad and sorrowful faces hundreds of them bedewed 'with tears crowded to win dows doors and all places of observation The interment took place in the public burial ground and at this last act of respect and kind ness that can be performed by the living for the dead some most touching scenes occurred Those to be deposited in their last earthly rest were all strangers Some of them were mem bers of same family and in one or two in stances surviving relatives were present One mother a German whose husband is among the lost cast herself upon the coffin of her only two children in agonies seldom witnessed But we must omit a detail of these scenes sThe impressive funeral service of the Episco pal Church was read by the Rev Mr Brooke and a brief but most pertinent and affecting ad dress made by the Rev Mr Sehorof the Meth odist Episcopal Church Our'ferration here ends and we presume not to break its effect with any reflections A host of the? citizens of the towns of New port and Covington and of the surrounding country joined in the procession It is estimat ed that more than twenty thousand persons were present STEAM BOAT MOSELLE The committee appointed to make inquiries into the number lost on the Moselle furnishes the following statement As nearly as can be ascertained there were on board at the time of the explosion Two Hun dred and ifty ive persons Of this number 58 are dead '56 missing 16 wounded 10S saved Three lots of laid in Milk Row Charlestown ing one third of an acre eachr Jor further particular inquire of the subscriber PRIMUS HALL 4 corner Southack George St Also to let a house situated in Milk Row possession given April I1 Enquire as above eb Mr Marlines to Mr orsyths Mexican Legation 'New Orleans April 201838 Sir Whilst the notices of an insult pretend ed to have been committed the flag of the United Stales in the! waters Texas the Milica rig of wanllurbide were confined to the public newspapers and I had no docu ments by means of whichll coyld repel this cal umny I abstained addressing you on the subject 'But ar to the the attention of the honorable chamber of Senators of the Congress of the Union has been direct ed towards the charges published against Mexi co by the passengers of the steamboat Columbia' and I am in possession of an official statement from the commander of the said brig relating todre occurrence with the said boat I honor to send you sir the annexed extract from that document 'with the hope tlmt you will submit it to the notice of his Excellency the President The captain of the Columbia and not the captain of the Iturbide will7 be here sejn provoked the attack to which this note re fers and the former should therefore be respon sible lor the result whatever it may be Permit me sir to repeat to you the assurance of my distinguished consideration RANCIS PIZARRO MARTINEZ Hon John orsyth Secretary of State of the United States translation oy the enclosure Extract from the official communication of the the Mexican brig of war Itur bide respecting her encounter with the steam boat Columbia To the Commander General of lhe Mexican squadron Brig Iturbide under sail 29 6 longitude 8S 48 west of Cadiz five in the after noon of this day March 24 1838 At the moment when you sir announced by your signals that you saw sails in the third quarter I made out the vessel to be a steamboat coming from the north and I discovered that she was not the same toiwhich we had given chase this morning arid which was apparently on her way to Brazoria" as this boat has two chimneys and the other only one As soon as 1 11 ITH ANNUAL MEETING THE ENGLAND ANTI SLAVERY CONVENTION I The New England Anti Slavery Convention will hold its fifth annual meeting in the city of Boston on Win nesday (30th) of May next and will probably continue three days The objects of this Convention and its aidvantages in giving an impulse to the cause eman cjpation are jell known Distinguished advocates of lie cause from other sections of the country are ex pected to be present to aid in the deliberations And as it was never more desirable or important dKaohow tat the Convention should be well attended it is ear nlestly hopedithat local societies throughout New Eng ijtnd will see that they are represented on the occasion liy large delegations ET Editors oflanti slavery papers and others friend ly to the cause are requested to give the above an in Steamboat Oronoco The explosion oq board this boat took place at about the same time as that on aboard the ill fated Moselle and lhe de struction of lives in hoth cases was terrible The Vicksburg Register of April 13 estimates the loss of Jives qn Board the Oronoco at hundred The particulars given in that paper are truly heart rending Sixteen of the pas sengers brought alive from Princeton had died at Vicksburg Thirteen had died at Princeion Maliy were instantly killed and many jumped overboard and were drowned Of those till living numbers were in a dreadfu 1state We notice amongst the names mentioned only one belonging to this State James' Harrington of Roxbury severely injured i Dreadful Steamboat Disaster The Steuben ville Union of the 24tjx jnsf It be comes our painful duty to record a serious disas ter which took place onboard the packet Eutaw yesterday morning about six The boat was preparing to leave our wharf for Wheeling in tbe performance of her daily' trips and the engine had made but two revolutions in backing out from shore when by some cause two of the flues collapsed which did great injury to lhe boat and many persons on board The clerk Mr ul ton was slightly scalded one of lhe engineers Mr Smith badly' scalded we regret to learn his life is despaired of Mrt employed on board had his skull fractured Mr Vanosdell a deck hand was thrown over board and was drowned an individual whose name we could not ascertain is missing This we believe was the first explosion of the kind that ever occurred at Steubenville who to cen sure we know not but believe it was caused inattention and we hope in future more care will be The Louisville Journal of April 26 says' Mr Simon Miller son of Captain Anderson Miller formerly of this State was stabbed through the hearr'a few days ago in Mississippi with a bowie knife? We understand that the perpetrator of the deed killed with a single blow of the same weapon the officer who attempted to arrest bin) i carriages THE SUBSCRIBER! has a lew Caif riages Buggies coveredand open Waggons aU which will be sold at reduced prices SHEPARD: AU of the above articles made to order and warranted 7 WidpolOyAjml sfertionip their columns j'' MAINE Samcel Pond President Wm Smyth Brunswick Secretary NEW HAMPSHIRE James Pekkins Portsmouth President John armer Concord Secretary VERMONT II Leavitt Vergennes President BAfiiEKTTiliddlebury Cor Secretary Gordon Rec 4 (IMPORTANT MEETING The annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State Anti Slavery Society for the Eastern District will be held ih Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Hall on the 16th of ifth month (May) next at 10 AM Auxil iary' Societies throughout lhe State and especially the Eastern District aie earnestly requested to send Delegates '4 Editors of ipapers friendly to the cause of reedom 4 are requested to codv this notice J3IE MEXICAN COAST BLOCKADED BY THE RENCH SQADRON Office of the Pensacola Gazette April 25th 1838 The United States schooner Grampus arriv ed here this morning from Vera Cruz bringing intelligence that the rench squadron is now blockading the Mexican coast It was suppos ed that the Castle of San Jiian de Ulloa would bq immediately invested and that from its con dition it coulfl not hold out any length of The Mexicans were willing to pay the indem nity demanded by the rench but the latter re quired some bpologyj which the Mexicaq Gov grnfhent refused to make One individual had 19950 horses and the church had agreed to supply a million of dollars to carry on the war The rench squadron consists of one frigate andffive brigs of war to which ad ditions are expected The rench ships of warat Martanique and Havanria had been ordered rL 1 xnere were no niicncuri vessels at vera Cruz when the Grampus sailed Neither ships of war nor packets are included! The United States sloops of war Ontario and Concord were left at Vera Cruz the former will remain there to protect the interests and commerce of the United States Mexican Government is "Confident of its strength and to meet the presen( emer gency but apprehensions were entertained that if lhe rench squadron should bombard the city of Vera Cruz the federal party would take part with the enemy and the city would be sack ed All the women and children were remov ing toVJalapa a town a few miles from Vera Tie Mexicans and inhabitants were re moving all their valuables While the Grampus was at Vera Cruz intel ligence was received from the seat of Govern ment that the Mexican Congress had' be fore them a proposition to expel all the renchmen from the Republic The rench brig of war Eclipse also arrived here this morning7 and exchanged salutes with our squadron The Eclipse saile'd from Vera Cruz the day before lhe sailing of the Grampus She is said to be the bearer of despatches to the rench Minister at Washington and has put iff here to give information of the blockade OBSEUIeJ illE DEAD Cincinnati Ohio Gazette Of kick April 304833? On Saturday afternoon April 2S the mourn ful duty of committing to the grave nineteen ofthe sufferers in the destruction of the Moselle was performed in this city associated with a solemn funeral service upon account of abthe sufferers' As the calamity was peculiar and transcendent in its horrors sowere the obsequies solemn and imping beyond any thing that has ever taken place iff this city At three upon the first toll of bell place of business was closed It is believed there was no exception Apparently' lhe whole city was a moving mass to the foot of Broadway where the procession was forming This was accom plished according to previous regulations The MILITIA LAW JUT The following petition was sent to the Legisla ture of this State on the eve of its adjournment too late to have any action taken upon deserves the serious consideration of the people of this Common wealth To the Hon Senate and the Hon House of Representatives in General Court assembled The petition of David Cambell a citizen of Boston respectfully represents That your petitioner is now lying incarcerated within the walls of Leverett street jail because he deems it un lawful as a Chnstian to train or perform military duty or to iy ainilitary fine Believing in the duty of for giving and loving our enemies instead of shooting or slabbing them that as a Soldier of the Cross he may use no othe shield than that of faith no other breast plate than that of righteousness and rtO other sword than that of the Spirit and that as a follower of the Prince ofpeace he is bound in meekness and forbear ance toHeceive an injury rather than inflict one on another our petitioner cannot abandon his principles though not merely his liberty but his life shall be for feited if he persist in his determination never to wield amilitary weapon Your petitioner has beeqagain and again imprisoned because he will not violate his con 1 science or in other words comply with tbe military law of this Commonwealth by appearing on inspection day and as that law directs He has thus given the strongest evidence in his power of his thht he is willing to be torn from the bo som of his family to have his business deranged andto be cast into prison rather than perform an act which he religiously believes to be incompatible with the Christian character and the gospel of Christ To the penalty of the law your petitioner submits unresisting ly but as a citizen of Massachusetts entitled to the enjoyment of equal rights and privileges with others and in the name ofimpartial justice he feels bound protest against the operation of the aforesaid law as invidious oppressive and unconstitutional While the conscientious scruples of others on this subject are res pected and provision is made for their indulgence' those of your petitioner are regarded as spurious or at least he is1 ignominiously punished for cherishing them in common with a favored Your petit ionetdoes not jvear the peculiar garb nor use the peculiar dialect of those who are'called Quakers or riends nor is he a member of that Society and therefore his conscience is trampled upon by the iron feet of the Militia law be cause it makes no exceptions for the relief of persons belonging to any other denominations Now your peti tioner thinks it must be obvious to every reflecting mind that a law which instead of respecting conscience universally favors a sect is contrary to the dic tates of reason and the spirit of th Constitution If its design be to accommodate religiousoptnions as to a par ticular act then all who cherish those opinions are justly entitled to its benefit in the act specified If a Quaker is excused from Waring arms why way not a Presbyterian a Baptist? a Methodist or one of any other sect excused also provided their views in this particular are identical? Is liberty of conscience in Massachusetts and its untrammelled exercise rd depend upon the color or cut of a man's clothes or the dimen sions of theArim of his hat? No this is something worse than it is a positive injustice it is persecution and oppression Your petitioner therefore respectfully entreats your honorable bodies not merely for himself but in behalf of' thousands in this Commonwealth whose views res pecting war and all preparations tor war accord with his own and who are consequently exposed to the same liabilities and sufferings to extend the provisions of the militia lam so as to exempt from military service all persons without regard to the particular sect with which they are or tnay be associated whose? religious princi ples forbid their using deadly weapons for the destruc tion of enemies either in their own defence or for the defence of others And as in duty bound your petitioner will continue to pray DAVIU UADUJAXJj Leverett street jail Beaton Apnl 23 1838 May 11 1838 LETTERS" Moses Sawin Rebecca Sampson Wm Clark Janies ulton Jr Blaisdvll Wallace Cowles George Havens Wilcox Gordon Rec MASSACHUSETTS rancis Jackson Boston Presidet Wm Lloyd Garrison Boston Cor Secretary Amos A Phelfs Req Secretary ft Peleg Clare Coventry President Elias Smith Providence Cor Secretary Oliver Johnson Rec Secretary CONNECTICUT! John Norton armington President Horace Cowles Vermo'nt Ati Slavery Convention In accordance 5 vs ith a resolutioffof the State Society the first Amti Sla very Stale Convention will be holden by Divine per 4 nffsston in the Union meeting house at Chester son Wednesday the 23d May next Business meeting at and public exercises at 10 A 'A general attendance from all parts of the State is solicited especially of all friends to the cause and of all persons who are willing carefully to examine the subject In behalf of the Executive Committee of the Vt An ff Slavery Society A Allen Safy Middlebury April 10 1838' country in reference to the progress of the cause! Eleven States were represented and among the numberl present we noticed Rev David Thurston of Me David Root Orson Murray Vt May Loring Wendell Phillips and Edmund Quincy Mass Wm Adams I Geo Benson and Joel Harris Conn Lundy and Robert Purvis Penn Beriah Green Wm Jay Samuel Cox and Alvan Stewart Chas Dennison Delaware The society met on Thusday morning with in creased numbers The usual committee were appoint ed to examine and report on the executive publishing and financial department and to nominate officers for the year ensuing A few business resolutions were adopted one'ap pointing a committee to revise the constitution and re port nt the next annual meeting another commend ing the establishment of libraries containing a com plete assortment of anji sla very books in all the cities towns and villages throughout the The main subject that interested the meeting was a propo sition of Alvan Stewart Esq of Utica to amend the constitution of the American Anti Slavery Society as follows that the clause of the second article be struck out which admits each state in which sla exists has by lhe constitution of the United States the exclusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in in said This proposition called forth long and able speeches from the legal gentleman of the Society A Stuart and Smith Esqs supporting the motion to strike out dKon Wm Jay Wendell Phillips and Ellis Loring Esqs opposing the same Other members took a part but the debate' was mainly sustained by these gentlemen The discussion occupied the greater part of two days and was negatived on dhe final vote by39 46 votes it requiring two thirds to amend the Constitution Various resolutions of more or less im portance have been ably discussed and with the exception above referred to adopted with unanimity Particulars will be given in our next number YANKEE ARMER AND LETTER i fgniweHortiadtareand the Reading and General Inlelligendt Riis pafer Bas en published a7ewVea'n! otcomeperweaujr eMpnsrieaB3 fill lOUrlial or the Af eYtenHinflr the rirenla non of the armer qnd rendering it still more valaf ble it will bex enlarged at the commencemeht of next volume sad published simultaneously in Boston and Portland edited by Cole who will be assist ed by the experience nd observations of the best prac tical farmers and gardeners in New England and other sections oftbe eouiAryt'a good number of whom will be contribillbrs The farmer will serve as a medium'? of communication by which intelligent fanners garden 1 ers and mechanics can interchange their views Jbr the benefit of themselves andihe community In publishing in twe? places there will be greater ad? vamages ior couecung vaiuauie matter tor me paper and as the publishers hqye a seed' store at each omce with a doil communication between the two cities and the editor and others practically engaged in lann ing and gardening are making experiments on numer ous kinds of vegetables and fruits from different sec tions and climes that superior varieties may tie brought? into notice through the columns of th armer and fur nished at the seed stores the readers of this paper wills convenient opportunities for obtaining the best productions that lhe country affords 4 I farmers are making great improvements oytne of science and the experience of each other and thoee who read1 agricultural papers find that they add both pleasure andprofiLtol heir business as they learn from thez experiments of others many useful things which' otherwise would cost them mueh time expense and de J1 lay while those who toil on in the old way will soon 4 find themselves in tbe back ground laboring to disad vantage' Terms Volume will commence on tbe first i Saturday in January 1838 It will be printed in good style on fine paper royal size quarto form with a lb tie page and index at the close of lhe year making a large handsome volume of more than 400 pages at 82 in advance or within three months 8225 within the year or $250 if not paid within the year who obtain five subscribers and collect and forwardabe shall have the sixth copy gratis so long as they that number good or ten per cent Post Maste I requested to act as Agents I 34 North Market st Boston 1 Publisher Nep 16b SELECT SCHOOL IN MARSHIELD I' THE Summer Term of Miss Elizabeth School will commence May 21st in which will be taught the higher branches of an English Education and the rench Language plain and ornament al Nee dle Work Painting and the projection of Maps The School will be furnished with Globes and an Or re ry to illustrate the principles of Astronomy A few Scholarscan be accommodated wilhboord in the family with the Teacher if application be made in season or further particulars parents are leferred to Edward Little Esq North Marshfield 3 Danielrhillips Esq Marshfield i Rev Mr White Marshfield Rev May Scituate 'Mky 11 7 CABINET Published by! Isaac Knapp 25 Cornhill Boston TeHms Si per annum in or 8125 if 1 not paid within three Each number containing a handsome wood engraving Contents of No Vol 2 Purity of Mind Sugar culture of the Cane" and preparation pf unrefined Mary Neal a Prison sketch Ttie Decline of Life Credit its meaning in the language of a Reading a taste fornt to be cultivated in early ilial (Juties feelings to wards Parents Schools being extracts from KimballSc "Journal of Tour in West Uncle Sayings Instruments of War when may they be Brothers and The well regulated amily Heaven Little thing Certain A Precious William Eactemoment to be Miscellaneous i Selections Poetry Dictionary The Cabinet edited by one of our most popular Writers for Sabbath Schools Efforts will be made to 5 render the Cabinet 'worthy of an extensive circulationen "wilb be sent to one address for 70 cents per copy Twenty copies to one address 60 cents per copy Thirty copies to one address 50 cents per copy INTERESTING work ALTON TRIALS of Winthrop Gilman who wns indicted with Enoch Long AmosB Roff Geo II Wal worth Geo Whitney William Hamed John Noble James Morss Jr Henry Tanner Royal WellerReuben Gerry and Thaddeus Hurlbut for the crime of Riot committed ODthe night of the 7th of November 1837 while engaged in defending a printing press from an attack made on it? at that time by an armed mob Written out from notes of the trial taken at the time by aMember of the Bar of the Alton Municipal Court Also the trial of John Solomon Levi Palmer Horace a) aa II Am a 1 1 a a 1 1 Ajvuu uuoiau iiuiicij juvuu ouiiui JUuVLU DUUer nU liam Carr and James indicted with James Jennings Solomon Morgan and rederick Bruchy for a riot committed in Alton on night of the 7th of November 1837in unlawfully and forcibly entering the Warehouse of Godfrey Gilman Co ana breaking up and destroying a printing press Written out from notes taken at the time of trial by William Lincoln a Member of Bar of the Alton Municipal Court The work contains a lithographic view of the mob attacking the warehouse of Godfrey Gilman 3c Co i or sale at 25 Cornhill Price 50 ftts' Mnv 11 1 published i S' LETTERS to Catherine Beecher in reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abofitioirism addressed to A Grimke author Published by Isaac Knapp 25 Comhill Price 31 cents per dozen May 11 Authentic narrative i ffAN America a ve NARRATIVE of' James Slave was for several years' driver on a cotton 1 plantation Alabama Published and soldby IS A AC KNAPP at 25 Cornhill price bound 25 cts oaner covers J3 4 cts This work contains the simple unvarnished story of an American Slave of one whose situation in the first place as a favorite servant in an aristocratic famL ly in Virginia and afterwards as the sole and confiden tial driver on a large plantation in Alabama afforded 4 him rare and peculiar advantages for accurate observa tion of the practical workings of the system His in telligence evident candor and grateful rertiembrance of those kindnesses which in a land of slavery made his cup of suffering less bitter the perfect accordanceof his statements (made at diffelncnt times and to different maivniuats one witn anomer as weii as tnose state ments themselves all afford strong confirmation of ths trutn ana accuracy 01 nis lditob r' aS rtf' Note The reader is referred to' John Whittier of Amesbury Mass? or to the following gentlemen who have heard the whole or a part of his history from hia own lips Emmor Kimberr of Kimberton Pa Lindlev Choates of Lancaster Co do James Mott of bila delphia Lewis Tappan Elizur Wright Jr Rev Dr ollen and James Birney of New York 'The lat ter gentleman who was a few years ago a citizen of abama assures us that the statements made to him by? James Williams were such as he had every reason believe from his own knowledge of slavery in that? sir State? niar 30 NOTICE The 2nd number of the ANTI SLAVERY HERALDwill be published on Tuesday next May 15 1838 Allsubscriptions for said paper will be received at the clothing store ranklin Avenue opposite publication office (as the publisher will be out of the city for a few lays) until further arrangements are made ROBERTS i I KNAPP 25 Comhill is agent for all publiea lions of the American Anti Slavery Society Tha Quarterly Magazine 1 will shortly be issued in an en larged form at 85 00 per year The most popular writers in the Anti Slavery cause are engaged as regn lar contributors to this iyork The Quarterly Rights and riend will be delivered from the office in Boston free of postage in any quantity to? those who pay in advance tf' March 1 NQTICE The Temperance House 118 William Street New? York WiKbe continued as usual till the first of May when it is expected it will be opened at 21 Beekman iStreet where good accommodations for transient compa iny shall tie ftimished and the best vegetable and fruit Jdiet Now York affords shall be ASEMATH NICHOLSON New York March 19th 1838? tf OSTOJV 233 Besides these several were known to be on board who were not registered rom the Louisville Journal EXPLOSION THE 0R0N0K0 We mentioned yesterday the bursting of the boilers of the steamboat Oronoke at Princeton on her way to New Orleans and the great de struction of human life on board of her uWe have since received from our friend Jackson clerk of the Peru the annexed state of some of the circumstances of the dis tressing occurrence Mr informs us that the statement as far as it goes can be fully re lied on it having been obtained from 15 or 20 of the passengers of the unfortunate boat who came up in the Peru We have conversed with several of the passengers all of whom declare their inability to give any thing like an adequate idea of the scene of horror To the Editors of the Louis ville Journal The steamer Oronoko Uapt John Crawford left New Orleans on Monday April 16 On Saturday morning the 21st tft about 5 having made but two revolutions after leaving Princeton Miss she burst one of her boilers blowfioverboqrd some 15 or 20 persons and severely scalding between 40 and 50 that re maineiori board Some 6 or 7 of the latter died previous to the departure of the Peju Among the scalded that were on boariJ as near as could be ascertained there were between 20 and 30 white men chiefly deck passengers 5 or 6 women and about the sam number of children from the age of 1 to 4 years that have since died Among those that went overboard about 4 of 5 were saved Some few cabin pas sengers were supposed to be missing The 2d engineer badly scalded The 2d cook (a black) who was badly scalded jumped over board some time after the explosion and was drowned The general supposition of a physician that was on board was few would recover having been scalded inwardly The Peru re mained so short a time that it was impossible to Ascertain the names of lhe scalded or surviv ors some having gone back in the boat which was towed to Vicksburgh and some on the Peru and Albany bound up The number of cabin passengers on board the Oronoko at the time as near as could be ascertained wayffirom 75 to SO on deck 60 to 70 including blacks and children Most of the passengers in the cabin were in bed at the time of the accident otherwise the loss of lives would have been im mense Every effort was made by both passen gers and crew to alleviate the sufferings of the 6 unfortunate beings but bf little avail The screams and groans were heart rending in the extreme prayers and supplications for water or to put a period to their existence Many thanks are due to Captain Shrodes of the Peru Captain Young of the "Albany and Captain Wheeler of the Independence for their prompt answer to the dl of distress May they never witness a similar scene on their boats There were also a number of valuable race 1 Zxi 1 horses belonging to vol Oliver ana others badly scalded THE WillZbe opened for public use on the T4A andlQth of the preset month The public generally without distinction! as to sect or party nw' respectfully invileA to i tend The' following will be lhe order obeerv4: ifth The will take chair 'at 10 precisely1 Tbe: Secretary will short account of the origin: of and objects for? which the Hall has been also several! interesting letters from individuals at a distance' After which David' Pavl Brown of this city counsellor at law will deliver an OrationJ upon i The'" Philadelphia Lyceum will meet at 3: when an £ssay upon the Lyceum system of instruction showing! its advantages mods of operation written by Victor Value of? Philadelphia will be read At half past 3 James Espy Philadelphia will explain the cause of winds clouds storms and other atmospheric phenom ena 1 At half past 4 several interesting ques tions will be read and referred to different members of Lyceum? for solution at the meeting on the next afternoon? This meeting will conclude with a discussion1 of the question Which has the greater influ ence Wealth or Knowledge The debate 1 will be opened by two members of the Lyceum after which any member or visitor may partici pate 1 Adjourn at 6 Evening meet at o'clock Lecture upon Temperance by Thomas Hunt of South Carolina preceded by a short address from Arnold BuUMof Philadelphia on the same subject ifth month 15th Morning Walter orward of Pittsburg a member of the late Convention for altering the Constitu tion of this State will deliver an address upon the right of ree Diicussion which will be fol lowed by a speech from Thomas Morris of Ohio a member of the United States Senate' 1 Afternoon 3 o'clock At the adjourned meeting of the Lyceum uller of Philadelphia will deliver a dis course on the history present condition and fu lure prospects of the human mind Half past 4 Essay by Dr Pierce of Philadelphia upon the physical education of children 5 Several short essays will then be read some of which will be written by female members of? the Lyceum ive Answers will be given to ques tions offered for solution on the preceding day This meeting will close vith a discussion of the question is the greater proof of a merit the opposition or the approbation of his fellow men i Adjourn at 6 Evening meet at 8 o'clock Speech from George ord jr' of Lancaster member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania' Address by Orange Scott of Lowell Mas 1 sachusetts Adjourn at 10 ifth month 16M Morning meet 10 1 1 o'clock Address by William BuRLEiGHi of Penn Address by Henry Stanton of Ynrk meet at o'clock Address by Alv ANTSTEWAKTfvf Evening at 8 o'clock Lecture upon vocal gymnastics and the art of niirinrr vlarn inurorc litr U4UIUUIV 'll 1 Should Cs Burleigh and Gunn re turn to the United States before the opening of the Hall addresses from both of them may be expected By order of the Managers JOSEPH TRUMAN WILLIAM SCOTT WILLIAM SAMUEL WEBB RIDA Yl' 1 1 1 83 8 4 ITH ANNUAL MEETING O' THE AMERI ICAN ANTI SLAVERY SOCIETY' New York May 1S38 American Apti Slavery Society pursuant to th call of the Executive Comtniuee thereof met kt the Broadway Tabernacle at 4 Wednesday In the absence of the President Gerrit Smith one of the Vice Presidents took the chair Prayer was offered by Rev David Thurston of Maine Wm Chace Oliver Johnson and Charles Remand were chosen Secretaries 6f the meeting The afternoon and evening A s' 4 7 I I I z4rr ra fl 1 4 ft.