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STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND AND PROV
IDENCE PLANTATIONS.
In General Assembly, January Session,
1830,
An Act in addition to an act entitled
¢« an act substituting nett weight
for gross weight, in sales and con
tracts relating to articles of mer
chandise,”
Be it enacted by the General As
sembly and by the authority thereol
it is enacted, That every person
who shall sell and deliver, and every
person who shall weigh any bhay, or
make out a bill of the weight thereof,
in any other way than by wetl
weight, or by allowing only twenty
hundred pounds for a ton, or one hun
dred poundsinstend of one hundred
and twelve pounds, shall forfeit and
pay the sum of ten dollars for every
such offence, one half of which penal
ty shall acrue to the person who
shall prosecute andsue therefor, and
the other hall to the use of the town
in which the said complainant shall
reside,
I'rue copy : witness,
HENRY BOWEWN, Sec’ry.
An Act to protect the officers Justice
of the adjoining States in passing
through this State in the execution
of thewr duties,
Be. it enacted by the General As
sembly, and by the authority thereor
it i enmacted, T'hat the Sheriffs,
Deputy Sheriffs, Constables and oth
er officers of the adjoining States,
with their assistants, in the legal ex
ecution of any writ,warrant or other
process issuing from and returnable
to Courts in their respective States,
may and shall have [ull liberty, pow
er and authority to pass and repass,
and able also to convey such persons
and thinge as they may legally have
in their custody by virtue of any
writ or warrant, in or by any of the
roads or ways lying in or leading
through any-towns or lands of this
State, in as full, free and ample man
ner as the officers of Justice ol this
State do use and exercise in the dis
charge of their duty and office : and
all persons that menace, threaten,
obstruct, strike, insult or assault, or
in any other manner abuse such offi
cers of the adjuining States, in such
exegution of their office. as they are{
passing through any of the roads or
landg of this State, shall be subject to .
the same pains and penaltics as per
sons would by law be subject uuto,
for insulting or otherwise abusing
similar officers of justice of this
State, in the due execution of their
office. :
A true copy Witness,
HENRXRY BOOWEN, Sec’ry.
An Act to reperl an act entitled
** an act to suspend proceedings on
petitions for the benefit of the act
entitled an act for the relief of in
solvent debtors.”
Be it enacted by the General As
semnbly and by the authority thereof
it is enacted, That the act afore
said be and_the same is hereby re
pealed. A true copy—witness.
HENRY BOWEN, Sec’ry.
An Act explanatory and in amend
ment of the « act for the relief of
losolvent Debtors.”
-~ Bro. 1. Be it enacted by the
‘General Assembly and by the author
ity thereof it is enacted, That it
shell be the duty of the Supreme Ju
dicial Court strictly”und ghorughly
o examine into the conduet and pro
seedings of every petitioner wha
Northicrh Sftar,
AND FARMERS AND MECHANICS ADVOCATE.
shall come before them for the benefit
of said act, so lar as the interests of
his creditors have been, or are liable
to be prejudiced op nffected thereby;
and in addition to his disclosure and
answers under oathy te require him,
if they think propery to produce sat
islactory evidence of all such facts
a 8 they may deem malggial to a full
understanding of erits of his
case. And nos titigmer shall
receive a dischar vi of said
act, unless, upon full inves ion as
aforesaid of his conduct and proceed
ings, and upon a hearing of such tes
timony (Cif any) as his creditors
may present, he shall in the opinion
of the court, exercising a sound dis
cretion thereon, be fairly and justly
entitled thereto, ‘
. Sec. 2. And be itfurther enact.
ed, '"l'hat said court shall have pow
er in their discretion, to dispense
with the term of residence required
by the first section of said act, in
any particular cases in which, under
all the circumstances, it may in the
opinion of the court, be consistent
with the true intent and meaning ol
that section, and just and proper so
(o do,
FARMERS & MECHANIOS
To wasu PrinTep Caricos.—Use as
little soap as p sseible, and not with hot
waler ; put in a little pot ashes, and
gently swill them, taking care not to
rub the cloth too much; wring il out
in cold spring water, and diy it in the
open air. By this means many colours
will be improved—all, indecd, but such
w 8 are mere water colours.
To crean AND roLIsH STeEL.—After
well oiling the rusty paits of the steel,
let it remain twe or three days in that
state ; then wipeitdry with clean rags,
and polish " with emery or pumice
etone, on hard wood. Frequently, how
ever, a little unslacked lime, finely pow
dered will be sufficient, after the 01l is
cleared off—\Wheaie a high degree of
polish is requisite, it will be the most
rfl'egm-cl‘btui;wd by using a paste
composed of finely levigated bloud
stone and spirits of wine. Bright bars
are, | owever, admirably cleaned in a
few minutes, by using a small portion
of corn emery, and afterwards finish
ing with flour of emery or rotien stone.
all of which, may be obtained at any
ironmonger’s or oil shop. This last
very simple method will lender any oth
er supeifluvus. —[Am. Mcc. Mag. |
By AN oLp OrFicrr oF THE FRERCH
LCAVALRY.
Of the first Shoeing.
The shoes usually used by Ffarriers
are too heavy ; they are injurious to the
gait of a horse as they affect his foot
T'he shoe of asaddie horse should not
weigh more thaa fuurteen ounces, in
cluding the nails ‘T'hecalkers arz nec
essary but in a very few instances.
It 1s likewise injurious that the irun
be not sufficiently close, because it
then leaves between the hoof and the
shoes an interval which admits of for
eign bodies, such us gravel, and brok
en nails, that compress the sole, and
cause the horse to walk lame.
The sponges of the shoe are general
ly tvo long, they should be made short
er. We cannot insist upon the neces
sity of paring much less than is usu
ally done ; as the hoof becomes thin,
loses its strength, and is aftected by
the least pressure. However, the con
trary excess should be likewise avoid
ed ; for itis certain that paring is use
ful, when carried on with the prope:
precautions. When the irons are old,
they frequently occasion an itching in
the fork of horse’s foot, which forces
him to be constantly scamping. A sup
puration also tuke place at the fork,
which requires to be pared and renew
ed. o
Of the characters eof the Horse shoe
* ameng some other Nations.
The shoe of the hor:e among the
English and Speniasds is very light ;
among the Arabs they are still more so,
but their usefulness cannot be appreci
ated since they have not the torm of
the horse’s foot.
Results and censequences of remarks
~ which we have just made.
'Wc mast conclude from all that we
WARREN R. 1. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1830.
A true copy —witness,
HENRY BOWEN, Sce’ry.
ADVOOADRE.
et /7. ) L. Z, gleeeee
TREATISE ON H)RSES.
[have jnst said, that it would be very
| desirable to be able to de without shoe
‘ing, since the -custom is undoubtedly
| pernicious, as it increases the number
lofclioorders to which the domestic hoise
is liable ; that in the state of nature,
horses, as well as other animals, do
very long journeys without feeling the
want of them ; and that other horses
travel over mountains and rocky coun
tries without shoes, perfectly harmless;
'k consequently that it would have been
well had this custom pever beeng intro
tuced. But, as the custu::ras taken
root, and that habitin this gdee, as i
tnauy ethers, cannot be overcome, and
since the degeneracy of the mast noble
'slave of mun seems to require the con
tinuance of this practice, at least, let
‘us, by acareful inquiry into its princi
ples, use all our efforis to make it as
littie injurions to this invaluable ani
‘mal as pussible.
For the Star.
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. Thcse
men have one (Mr Burges) who is able to
vindicate their rights, with as much effect,
as any member in Congress ; and in what bet
ter cause could a person wish to be engaged,
than one in which justice and humanity are
blended. Those of the veteran band that
now rvmain, stand as the aged oak, amidet
the surrounding pines, to remind thy journey
ing traveller, that once it-had companions of
as much true worth, as itself. Year after
year, have they been disappointed--timeaf
ter time have they been encouarged, to
hope, that ere long, they should have their‘
anticips tiane realized. and receive a pittance
which would be but their just due. In uinf
have their sufferings been re-ounted--te but
litile eflect has a pation been called upon, to
extend its thoughte beyond the selfishness of
an unprincipled aristocrat, and what has
been the reply. This language has giected
their ears ;** spare us but \his time, and at
some future period, we will compensate you
for the sufferings you have endurecd. Im
possiblz ab:olutely impossible, for such an
event to bs accomplished. o much *ime
has aiready tr-nspired, and they treated with
coid neglect——lo he repayed in the few re
maining years, that they will have to tarry ‘
here on carsh. Such a course will not have |
to be resorted to, to evade their request,
when a few more¢ rolling years shall hlve!
passed away. Then all will be settled on
their part-~then they will have paid the last |
great debt of nature---then no feble, lolter-’
ing old men will be pointed at as having;
been participants in the battles which gamned
this eountry’s independence. Nothing, but |
' what is their just due, has been claimed by
'them---nothing but what at some future day,
iwfll make the cheeks of those, who new
' consider their case of but minor importance,
'blush from a consciousness of the cruel and
’unfoeling manner in whieh they have been
treated. Contrast the cordition of hima who
}now fills the Presidential chair, and styled
‘the hero of two wars, who was urged upon
‘the people on acconnt of this very circum
?atnnce : view him surrounded with all that
can possibly be wished for his comfort, With
;a mansion of the most splendid description,
no amount too much to expend upon it ; and
with all this in the recollection reflect, that
those who were foremost in the ranks, and
nobly acquitted themselves when heir coun
try was.in the midst of all ite perils, are now,
many ef them, destitute of the common nec
ossaries of life ; without a mansion which
they can call their own,to shelter them from
the keen blasts of the whistling w nd, going
from place to place, and bekolding all the
wealth, grandeur and happiness, that ap
pearsto pervade the principal portions of
those United States, and they jleft witheut a
consol ng word or thoughtfulloek from the
very ones that owe their liberty and free
dom to their untiring exertions, and unexam
pled perseverance. Heaven forbié ! that
;‘h a stateof things shall leng exi t, but on
the contrary, let the nations vow be passed-.
let a redeeming spirit be felt--.let a trumpet
be sounded, the echo of which shall go from
heart to heart, until the whole population
shall be made to feel the justice of the aged
Soldiers claim. 0.
SLISOBLLANSOUS.
FOUNDERS OF THE REPUB
e i
Our ancestors were not, like some
colonists, disgarged from the woth
er country to keep the remaining
population sound and pure; they
were not a surplus mass thiown off
to prevent national apoplexy, or po
litical spasm ; such a pepulation as
sometimes went from Atlica to ftuke
possession of the islands in the nu
merous scas about, them, or to the
more distant shores of “Africa ; nor
were M_u:pm‘ by the pacrgl} 'viountry
to extend” her“commerce, O to gain
a footing on or near the letritori
of other nafions, ~
T'hey did not come to this country
as the Spanish and French eolonists
to the ¢ summer isleg,” allured by
the golden dreams of avarice, or by
the glowing description of the luxu.
riance of the soil, abounding in per‘
petual fruits and.Qowers ; anearthly
paradise, teeming with all that could |
salisfy theappetite or regale the sen
ses 3 which for centuries have been
the abode of luxury, superstition,
profligacy, and crime. No ; the so
ber calculations of forming a thrilty
settlement, which would make a good
howe for themselves and their de
scendants, operated upon some of
the early colonists of this country,
A spuit of enterprise natural to en
lightened men, induced otkers to
come and see. and in doing this they
became attached and fixed to these
vhorcs which their posterity now ine
habit, Others had different motives
for emigration ; a love of freedom in
thought and speech. They were
{fully sensible of their situation,—
They could not anticipate all the oc
currences which might happen in
their destinies, but they were deter
mined to commence upan the broad
principle, that knowledge and virtue
are the pi'lars of power and security
inevery national code, They saw
[ physical means about them for an al
| most interminable increase of popula
ftion. The sea was on one side and
boundless lursets on the other, Nav
{igable rivers were flowing into the
lToceans. Nothing but athinly scatter
|ed race ol rude men stood in their
| way to the founding of an empire
|larger than the world had ever seen.
Nature seemed to have waited from
her birth until this hour for their
coming, to give them possession of
[her bLounties. T'his was the place
(for coutemplation, and a place to o
]rigiuala a new course of theughts up
on political and civil liberty, There
| were, in these retreats, no shouts ul'}
'thc conqueror, no moans of the con.
‘querred ; the time resembled the ¢ ol
ol the evening, and the place the a
'bode of innocence, when and where
-other beings were at rest, and God
"walked with man in his primeval |
‘state. Every thing, in America,}
‘was to be begun, and every thing
semed to depend npon themselves ;|
with this happy difference, hnwever,!
between us and those in paradise,
for our salety and happiness were
to depend upon eating [reely of the
tree of knowledge, which was l’urbid!
den to him who first sprang from |
the dust of the earths Heve was ul')i
Tered the opportunity to cultivale the
‘mind without the trammels and fet- {
ters which embarrass and bind those |
borne in aged and decaying commun |
itics, Heire plans, and wvales, and;
hills, offered opportunities for all lhe‘
experiments of agriculture, No a
grarian law was needed to give men g
an equality ; there was one passed |
already by nature withoutstint, The
sites for cities were unoccupied ; and |
they exercised their judgments upon |
the subject of a proper place to build |
them, without statutes or restraints. ,’l
‘L'he political compact wag to be for|
wed and altered as the covenanters |,
could agree ; lor there was no other|,
lawgiver than their own understand |
ings, no Solons but their own Wwis- |,
dom, vo Lycurguses but the severe)
discussion of their own judgments, |
T'here was no syren (o allure them |
from their dutics to the rocks un‘
whieh'they might sleep until their
locky of strength were shorm.—
There were no beds of flowers be
neath which the serpent’s flattery
and lashion might glide to wound
their naked feet with sharp stings.
Indelence to them would have been
death ; and labour, that supposed
carse on man, was a blessing. "I'hus
stripped of every shackle, they began
their work of founding an empire By
the lights emitted from theic minds
‘!hlll we trace the path they pursued,
and the deed they performed. The
hight of the sun pusses away with the
going down of thg s.me ; but the ac
cumulased hight of succassive azes of
intellect, like the precious stones which
adorn the city of God, chases away all
darknegs, and beams in eternal splind.
our.—[Knapp’s Lectures.
Don'r e piscouracep, If in the
outset of life, things de not go oo
smoothly, It seldom happans that the
hopes we cherish of the zlturo are re
alized. T'he path of life in the pros
pect, appears smooth and level enough.
but when we come to travel it, we
find itall up hill, and generally rouzh
enomgh, The journey is a laborious
one, and wkether poor or wealthy,
high or low, we shall find it so to our
disappointment, if we have built on any
other calculation. ‘To endure cheer
fully what must be, and to elbow our
‘way as easily as we can, hoping for lit
tle, yet striving for much, is perhaps
the true plan. But
~ Do~’r BE plscouracep, if occasion
ally you slip by the way, and your neig’
bors tread aver you a little ; in oth:r
words, don’t let a failare or two dis
heartan you—accidents happen ; miscal
culations will sometimes he malde :
things will uften turn out diffarently
from our expectations, and we may be
sufferers. It is worth while to remem
ber that fortune is like the skies in
April, sometimes clouded. and "somc
times clear and favorable, and as it
would be folly to despair of again see
ing the sun, because to day ie stormy,
‘.-m it is equally unwise to sink into de
spondency, when foitune frowns,since,
2in the common course of th:m'*. "“
'm:y be surely expected to smile again.
And again. ¢
1 Dox’r pe piscouracep if you are
'deceived in the people of the worldi
it often happens that men wear borrew
led characters as well as borrewed
'clothes, and sometimes those who have
long stood fair before the weorld, are
!va rotten at the core. From sources
such as these, you may he most unex
‘pecle(lly deceived 3 and you will nat
'urally feel sore undei such deceplions;
/but to these you must become used ;
|if vou fare as most people do they will
\lose their novelty before you grow grey,
jand you will learn to (rust men cau
'tiously, and examine their characters
closely, before you allow them great
[oppo--tuni(ies to injure you.
Donx’t BE piscourßAGED under any
circumstances, Go steadily forward.
‘Rather consult your own conscience
‘than the opinions of men, though the
last is not te be disregarded. Be
industrious, be frugal, be ionesr, deal
in perfect kindness, with all who come
in your way, exercising a neighberly
and obliging spirit in your ewn inter
course, and if you do not prosper as
rapidly as any of your ueighbors de
pend upon it you will be as happy.—
[Emporium,
IMIORAL & RELIGIOUS.
RESIGNATION.
There is no virtue more acceptable
to God, and in practice, more condu
cive to human happiness, than resigna
tion to the divine will. He who pre
sumes to question the wisdom, the gonl
ness, and the paternal solicitude, for
the felicity of man, of the Supreme be
ing, is guilty of the most heinous of
crimes, and deserving of the moat se
vere punishment. T'hat wisdom,which
is displayed in the economy of the
vast system of creation—that goodness,
which every page in the volume of na
ture, exhibits in languagze the most for
cible and endearing ; that paternal sol
icitule, which the scheme of redempt
ion and pardon so glorinusly illustrates,
should silence every murmur when we
are afflicted, and teach us to consider
that we are chastised for the most be
nevolent purpose, and corrected, that
we nay be more worthy of those unfad
ing joys for which we are ultimately
designed. T'bis globe is not construot
ed {or the eternal abode of an eternal
soul. We should view all its comforts
and all its perplexities, as equally short
lived and transitory. He who uses the
grod things o[ this world, without übus
ing them ; whom prosperity cannot e~
late ; who puts a just value upon what
he possesses, and is ready to resign the
blessings which he is favoured with in
to the haonds of him by whom they
were bestowed, when the requisition is
made, is an object of divine complacen
cy, and will surely receive an, abund
ant reward. Resignation con ate
the distress of this life, ulnik:iod
troubles, peur a ray of comforé to en
liven the vale of tears through which
(NO. 2.