ngs, which are kept open the first two weeks of every
month at Mason's lodge, Broadway, where they are allowed to
jostle off the sidewalks the most respectable inhabitants.
If they are reproved for such conduct, the answer invariably
is,--'Isn't this a land of liberty?' I was one forenoon
myself stopped at the lodge and offered a vote, with the
preliminary question,--'Are you a Clay or a Jackson man?' In
Boston, a person seen with a segar in his mouth in the
street, is counted a blackguard; but in New-York no
gentleman makes his promenade without one. In Boston, a
housekeeper would be placed at the Sessions dock for
suffering the refuse of his mansion to be thrown into the
street; while in N. York he would be fined $1 if he allowed
it to be thrown elsewhere near his premises. Swine is a
Bostonian's bane, and a N. Yorker's antidote,--indeed this
animal is as much caressed by the ladies and gentlemen of
the latter city, as a lap-dog in London or Paris. The
Governor and his twenty chosen ministers have made it a
capital offence to molest one of these interesting
quadrupeds while roaming the streets!"--[Oh! what a lying
jade!]

_Salem Observer,_ Oct. 13, 1832.

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EARLY ACCOUNTS OF NEW-ENGLAND. The first settlers of
New-England must have been blessed with singular powers of
vision. One of them speaks of lions in Cape Ann: another
(Josselyn), who arrived at Boston in 1663, and resided in
this Colony about eight years, says of our frogs, "some,
when they sit upon their breech, are a foot high, and some
as long as a child one year old." He likewise says "old
barley frequently degenerates into oats" in New-England.

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"Enthusiasm" is described as a nervous disorder by Dr. Douglass, author
of the Historical Summary.

DR. DOUGLASS'S NOTICE OF SALEM. In looking over Dr.
Douglass' historical summary, we found the following note on
Salem. The author formerly lived in Boston, and after his
removal to England, published his work in 1749. As he was a
physician, he probably considered himself authorized to
broach new theories. He certainly showed his ingenuity in
imputing to our soil a tendency to produce the diseases of
which he makes mention. It is perhaps fortunate for us that