is was a case tried under the statute of Connecticut against
the right of unnecessary travelling on the Sabbath. The result
appears to be very remarkable. In the first place, we consider
the Law itself to be clearly unconstitutional, and we have never
had the slightest doubt that if the question ever goes to
Washington, the Supreme Court will declare it unconstitutional,
and reverse the decision of the Connecticut Court.--_Boston
Centinel._]

_Salem Observer_, May 4, 1833.

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The ridiculous practice here recorded does not appear to have gained a
foothold in America. It would have been, to say the least, less
harmful in its effects than the hanging of witches or the whipping of
Quakers.

PROSECUTIONS AGAINST ANIMALS. The second number of the American
Jurist, just published, contains a curious article relating to
the prosecutions formerly instituted against animals, and for
whom counsel was sometimes assigned by the Court, in the same
manner as is now done in cases of capital felony. The first case
mentioned is a prosecution of some rats in the Bishopric of
Autun, in France. They had become so mischievous that a bill in
due form was filed against the rats, and a summons issued for
their appearance before the Court. The Judge, unwilling to take
advantage of their default, appointed an advocate to plead for
them, and he managed their cause so adroitly that by means of
this prosecution he obtained an elevation to the highest honor of
his profession. In another case counsel was appointed to defend
some caterpillars who had drawn upon themselves the vengeance of
the law; but the ingenious arguments of their advocate availed
nothing, and the caterpillars fell under the censure of a
spiritual Court, who ordered adjuration, prayers, and sprinkling
of holy water.

_Salem Observer_, May 9, 1829.

A very full and interesting account of this subject can be found in a
recent number of the "Popular Science Monthly."

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Arrest in Connecticut for teaching colored children.

CONNECTICUT BARBARISM. We have been permitted to read a letter
from Miss Prudence Crandall, who is actually confined in jail in
the town of Brooklyn, Conn., for teaching colored misses to read
and write!

The letter from Miss Crandall is dated "BROOKLYN JAIL,