boats passed from the west and north, through the canal, into the 1823. tide waters of Hudson and Albany, amidst the celebration of thousands. The schooner Rebecca from Halifax, North Carolina, arrived at Norfolk on the 28th of April through Albemarle Sound and the Dismal Swamp Canal, with a cargo consisting of 59 bales of cotton, 49 barrels of flour, and 39 hogsheads of tobacco. At Patterson, N. Jersey, there were 3 extensive woollen facto- Patterson. ries, and 2 duck factories, supplying, in a great measure, the United States navy with canvass, and consuming upwards of a ton of flax per day; 3 factories making machinery, one of which is stated to be the most extensive and complete of any in the United States; 3 most extensive bleach greens; 2 brass and iron founderies; saw and grist mills; paper mill; rolling and slitting mill; nail factory, and a reed factory. There also were 4 places of public worship, 1 seminary, 6 schools, and 2 printing offices. Point. Lechmere Point, in Cambridge, near Boston, now contained Lechmere a population of more than 1000 souls. Its recent and rapid growth is principally ascribed to its manufacturing and provision establishments. In the glass house, cutting house, and other appendages to the manufactory, 140 workmen were constantly employed. There were manufactured here 22,400lbs. of glass vessels per week, many of which were beautifully cut, and sent into Boston and various other places for sale. The annual amount of sales was 150,000 dollars. Beside an immense quantity of provisions packed at the provision establishment, and large manufactories of candles and soap, there were at the Point an extensive pottery, a brewery, and 2 large carriage manufactories; and in the vicinity 150 men were employed in making bricks from an inexhaustible bed of clay. The New Hampshire Historical Society was incorporated.'— N. Hamp The completion of two centuries from the first landing at Pas- shire. cataqua was celebrated at Portsmouth on the 21st of May. The corner stone of the New Penitentiary, intended for the Penitenreception and security of prisoners in places of solitary confine- tiary. ment, was laid at Philadelphia on the 22d of May. John M'Lean of Boston, lately deceased, left 100,000 dollars Mass. Genin aid of the Massachusetts General Hostpital.-A donation of eral Hos5000 dollars was presented by Mr. Sheldon Clark, of Oxford, Connecticut, to Yale College. pital. Deaf and Since the opening of the American Asylum for the Deaf and Asylum for Dumb at Hartford, about 6 years, 110 had been received as Dumb. pupils, 50 had left the Asylum, and 69 now remained. In the Foreign Mission school at Cornwall, Connecticut, there Cornwall 1 The first volume of its Collections was published in 1824. School. 1823. Missions. Indian church. Storm. Fire in Vermont Deaths. were 36 pupils; of whom 15 were from nine different tribes of the American aborigines, and 9 from the Sandwich Islands; the rest were chiefly from the Eastern continent.1 A mission was commenced by the American Board of Foreign Missions at Mackinaw.-An American mission was commenced at Beyroot in Western Asia, on the shores of the Mediterranean, near the foot of Mount Lebanon. A church was organized at the Seneca village, and four intelligent young chiefs were admitted to communion.2 On the 28th and 29th of March there was an uncommon storm from the northeast, which extended from New York to Virginia. Early in September, after a severe drought, a fire commencing in the woods in the vicinity of Wiscasset, Maine, made great and extensive desolation. The flames, borne rapidly towards the town by a gale, caught the dwelling houses, 22 of which, with a great number of other buildings, mills, and stock, were consumed. Alna sustained a similar conflagration. The value of property destroyed in Wiscasset was estimated at 50,650 dollars; of that destroyed in Alna, at 22,000 dollars. The contributions for the relief of the sufferers, at an early period after the fire, amounted to 25,293 dollars. Beside the destruction in the two villages, there was an immense loss sustained by the conflagration of the wood, fields of grain, and other valuable property, for the distance of 7 miles. A collection of the records and documents connected with the assumption and establishment of government by the people of Vermont, with early journals of the council of state and the assembly, and other papers, edited by William Slade, jun. Secretary of state, was printed at Middlebury. John Treadwell died, in the 78th year of his age;3 Samuel 1 Of this residue, 1 was from New Zealand, 1 from Malayan Archipelago, 1 from Portugal, 3 from China, 2 from the Greek Islands, 1 Jew, and 3 young men of the United States. This school was instituted in 1816, and opened in 1817, under the direction of the American board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 2 Mr. Jabez B. Hyde, who was sent to the Seneca tribe by the New York Missionary Society in 1811, continued among them, in the capacity first of teacher, and then of catechist, until 1821. He translated and printed several portions of Scripture into the Seneca language. 1 John Treadwell, LL.D. was born at Farmington, in Connecticut, in 1745, and was graduated at Yale College in 1767. He studied law, and settled in his native town, where he was early introduced into civil employments, for which he was peculiarly qualified, and he passed successively through many of the most important offices in the state. From 1776, with the exception of one year, he was elected annually a representative to the legislature until 1787, when he was transferred to a seat in the council, which he retained until 1798, when he was chosen lieutenant governor. On the death of governor Trumbull in the autumn of 1809, he was appointed by the legislature to succeed him, and in the ensuing spring was elected governor by the people. He had pre Wyllys, at Hartford, aged 84 years; Nathaniel Peabody, in 1823. his 824 year;3 Tapping Reeve, aged 78;4 George Cabot, aged 72;5 John Phillips, at Boston, in his 53d year; and Samuel Deaths. Welch, at Bow, in New Hampshire, in his 113th year. 6 viously been 20 years judge of probate, 3 years a judge of the county court, 20, a judge of the supreme court of errors, and 19, a member of the corporation of Yale College. He had a principal agency in establishing the school fund of the state, and was one of the board of managers until 1820. Governor Treadwell was a fervent, and intelligent Christian, and while an exemplary member of the church at home, performed important services to other churches. He was a trustee of the Connecticut Missionary Society, and president of the Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which office he filled from the organization of that body until his death." He possessed a sound and vigorous mind," and beside his knowledge "in law and politics, was extensively acquainted with literature, science, and theology." 2 Samuel Wyllys, son of George Wyllys, secretary of the state of Connecticut, was born in 1739, and educated at Yale College. In 1775 he was appointed by the state government, lieutenant colonel of general Spencer's regiment, and soon after by congress, colonel of a regiment in the Connecticut line, in which capacity he served with reputation, through the war of the revolution. After the peace, he sustained several civil offices, was a representative in the general assembly, and major general in the militia of the state. In 1796 he succeeded his father as secretary of state, and continued in office until 1809, when a paralytic affection obliged him to resign it. "He, with his father, and grandfather, held the office of secretary 93 successive years; a fact probably without a parallel in the history of republics."-The CHARTER OAK, near the Wyllys mansion house, is still standing. 3 General Peabody sustained many important offices during the war of the revolution, and after it; and was a useful citizen, an enlightened politician, and a firm and ardent friend to his country. Farmer and Moore, Hist. Coll. for 1823. 4 Tapping Reeve, LL.D. was born at Brook Haven, Long Island, in 1774, and graduated at Princeton in 1763. After spending some time in that seminary as a tutor, he established himself as a lawyer at Litchfield in Connecticut, and soon became eminent in the profession. He was for many years a judge of the superior court of that state, and for a considerable period, chief justice. He founded the Law School at Litchfield, and was for nearly 30 years the principal instructor in that distinguished institution. Judge Reeve was eminent for uprightness and piety, and held the first rank among his contemporaries in vigorous talents and legal attainments, and in the esteem and confidence of the community. 5 The Hon. George Cabot was born at Salem, and employed the early part of his life in foreign commerce. Possessing a vigorous and inquisitive mind, he made his voyages to other countries the means of obtaining varied and extensive knowledge. He was a member of the convention of Massachusetts which formed the constitution of that state, and of the convention which ratified the constitution of the United States. In 1790 he was elected to a seat in the senate of the United States, and was one of the most distinguished members of that body, and one of the confidential friends of Washington and Hamilton. In 1808 he became a member of the council of Massachusetts; in 1814 he was appointed a delegate to the convention which met for consultation at Hartford, and was chosen its president; and afterwards retired from public life. He was a sagacious statesman, uncommonly versed in the science of political economy, and a vigorous and persuasive speaker. He was distinguished for a graceful simplicity of manners, for sincere and disinterested patriotism, and for integrity and benevolence. 6 The Hon. John Phillips was born in Boston, and educated at Harvard College, where he was graduated in 1788. He entered upon the study of the law, and at an early period was appointed attorney for Suffolk. For the last 19 years 64 VOL. II. 1824. March 13. ARTICLES of a convention between the United States of Convention America and Great Britain, for the suppression of the African for suppres slave trade, were subscribed at London by plenipotentiaries ap sing the African slave trade. April 5. Convention with Rus sia. Arrival of general pointed for that purpose. By the first article, the commanders and commissioned officers of each of the two high contracting parties, duly authorized by their respective governments to cruise on the coasts of Africa, of America, and of the West Indies, for the suppression of the slave trade, are empowered, under certain restrictions, to detain, examine, capture, and deliver over for trial and adjudication by some competent tribunal, any ship or vessel concerned in the illicit traffic of slaves, and carrying the flag of the other.1 A convention between the United States of America and his majesty the emperor of all the Russias was concluded and signed at St. Petersburg. By the third article of this convention it was agreed, "that, hereafter, there shall not be formed by the citizens of the United States, or under the authority of said States, any establishment upon the Northern Coast of of America, nor in any of the Islands adjacent, to the north of fifty four degrees and forty minutes of north latitude; and that, in the same manner, there shall be none formed by Russian subjects, or under the authority of Russia, south of the same parallel."2 General La Fayette, on receiving an invitation from congress, came to America. He arrived in the harbour of New York on La Fayette. the 13th of August, and proceeded to the residence of the vice president at Staten Island. A committee of the corporation of of his life he was a member of the senate of Massachusetts, and for several years its president. He was a member of the convention which revised the constitution of the state, and on the incorporation of the city of Boston, was elected the first mayor. At the close of his official year he declined a reelection. A few weeks after his retirement from the office of mayor, while attending his public duties on the day of General Election, he was seized with the angina pectoris, and died the following morning. By a rare union of talents and virtues, he conciliated general esteein, and inspired universal confidence. He was highly estimable in private life, and in public, eminently useful. His friend the Hon. Mr. Quincy, who succeeded him as mayor, spoke, at his inauguration, in high and just terms of his predecessor, and of the wise, prudent, and faithful citizens who composed the first city council. "Their labours," said he, have been indeed, in a measure, unobtrusive, but they have been various, useful, and well considered. They have laid the foundations of the prosperity of our city deep, and on right principles." 1 State Papers, 1824, where is a copy of the Convention, signed by Richard Rush, W. Huskisson, Stratford Canning. 2 The Convention was signed at St. Petersburg by Le Comte Charles de Nesselrode and Pierre de Poletica, on the part of Russia, and by Henry Middleton on the part of the United States, and signed by the president of the United States at Washington 12 January, 1825. the city of New York, and a great number of distinguished citi- 1824. zens, proceeded to Staten Island, to welcome him to their capital. A splendid escort of steam boats, decorated with the flags of every nation, and bearing thousands of citizens, brought him to the view of assembled multitudes at New York, who manifested their joy at beholding him by shouts, acclamations, and tears. At the City Hall the officers of the city and many citizens were presented to him; and he was welcomed by an address from the mayor. While he was at New York, deputations from Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Haven, and from many other cities, arrived with invitations for him to visit them. After remaining a few days at New York, he proceeded to Boston, where he met with the same cordial reception.'-The general soon after returned to New York, visited Albany and the towns on Hudson's river, and afterwards passed through the intermediate states to Virginia. He returned to Washington during the session of congress, and remained there several weeks. Congress voted him the sum of 200,000 dollars, and a township of land, as a remuneration, in part, of his services during the war of the revolution, and as a testimony of their gratitude. landing. The anniversary of the landing of William Penn on the shores Anniversa of America was conmemorated, for the first time, at Philadel- ry of Penn's phia, on the 4th of October. The event was celebrated in Lætitia court, at the house once the property and residence of 1 La Fayette came to Boston through New Haven and Providence. On his entrance into Massachusetts, a deputation from Boston met him, and accompanied him to the seat of governor Eustis in Roxbury, where they received an escort of 800 citizens of Boston, the mayor and corporation awaiting his arrival at the city lines. The pupils of the public schools, male and female, were arranged on the side of the common adjoining the Mall, under the care of their respective teachers, in two lines, and through these the procession passed. On the 25th of August the general attended the annual commencement at Cambridge, and received the cordial welcome of a numerous assemblage, and the salutation of the University. The next day he was present at the anniversary of a literary Society, connected with the university, and professor Everett, in an oration before the Society, addressed him with pertinency and pathos, the auditory testifying their concurrence by their tears and applauses. "With the present year," said the orator, "will be completed the half century from that most important era in human history, the commencement of our revolutionary war. The jubilee of our national existence is at hand. The space of time, that has elapsed since that momentous date, has laid down in the dust, which the blood of many of them had already hallowed, most of the great men to whom, under Providence, we owe our national existence and privileges. A few still survive among us, to reap the rich fruits of their labours and sufferings; and One has yielded himself to the united voice of a people, and returned in his age, to receive the gratitude of the nation to whom he devoted his youth. Welcome, friend of our fathers, to our shores! Happy are our eyes that behold those venerable features. Enjoy a triumph, such as never conqueror nor monarch enjoyed, the assurance that throughout America there is not a bosom which does not beat with joy and gratitude at the sound of your name." |
