CLOSE
CONFINEMENT, June 28, 1833." Miss Crandall simply relates that
she was arrested on the 27th, with her sister, by Mr. Cady, the
Sheriff of the County, and examined before Justice Rufus Adams.
Miss Crandall was found _guilty_ of teaching blacks to read, and
was thereupon bound over, in the sum of $150, to appear at the
Superior Court holden at Brooklyn on the second Tuesday of August
next.

Miss Crandall was sent to the county jail and put into the cell
which had been occupied by Watkins the murderer. At the close of
her letter she says, "If all the prisoners are as happy as I am,
I can assure you they do not bear much mental suffering."

The friends of Miss Crandall were preparing to give the bond
necessary for her release.

_Salem Observer_, July 6, 1833.

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Innholders prosecuted as lately as 1824 for the crime of entertaining
on the Lord's Day.

_John F. Trueman_ and _Almoran Holmes_, licensed Innholders,
convicted on several indictments for entertaining two inhabitants
of Boston on the Lord's Day, they not being travellers,
strangers, or lodgers, were sentenced according to the act of
1796, each to pay a fine of $6 66 and costs of prosecution.

_Boston Telegraph._

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LUDICROUS PUNISHMENT. In the first volume of the "Library of
American Biography, conducted by Jared Sparks," the following
incident in the life of Ethan Allen shows the character of the
government in Vermont in 1774, when the inhabitants were
resisting the claims of New-York to jurisdiction over their
territory. A Committee of Safety was the highest judicatory, and
Allen was Col. Commandant of the territory. If any person
presumed to act under the authority of the State of N. York, he
was immediately arraigned and judgement pronounced against him,
in the presence of many persons, by which he was sentenced to be
tied to a tree and chastised "with the twigs of the wilderness"
on his naked back, to the number of two hundred stripes, and
immediately expelled from the district, and threatened with death
if he should return, unless specially permitted by the
convention.

"In the midst of these signs, the mode of punishment was
sometimes rather ludicrous than severe. In the town of Arlington
lived a doctor who openly profes