Washington the preceding day. They went to the 'Camp' at the foot of the mountain on Sabbath evening, and lodged there with the intention of climbing the sumit the next morning. But in the morning the mountains were inveloped in thick clouds; the rain began to fall, and increased till afternoon, when it came down in torrents. At five o'clock they proposed to spend another night at the camp, and let their guide return home for a fresh supply of provisions for the next day. But the impossibility of keeping a fire where every thing was so wet, and at length the advice of their guide, made them all conclude to return, though with reluctance. No time was now to be lost, for they had seven miles to travel on foot, and six of them by a rugged path through a gloomy forest.They ran as fast as circumstances would permit; but the dark evergreens around them, and the black clouds above, made it night before they had gone half of the way. The rain poured down faster every moment; and the little streams, which they had stepped across the evening before, must now be crossed by wading, or by cutting down trees for bridges, to which they were obliged to cling for life. In this way they reached the bridge over the Amonoosuck, near Crawford's just in time to pass it before it was carried down the current. On Wednesday, the weather being clear and beautiful, and the waters having subsided, six gentlemen, with a guide, went to Mount Washington, and one accompanied by Mr. Crawford to the "Notch," from which nothing had yet been heard. We met again at evening, and related to each other what we had seen. The party who went to the Mountain were five hours in reaching the site of the camp, instead of three, the usual time. The path for nearly oneAird of the distance was so much excavated, or covered with miry sand, or blocked up with flood-wood, that they were obliged to groupe now their way through thickets almost impenetrable, where one generation of trees after another had risen and fallen, and were now lying across each other in every direction, and in various stages of decay. The camp itself had been wholly swept away; and the bed of the rivulet, by which it had stood, was more than ten rods wide, and with banks from ten to fifteen feet high. Four or five other brooks were passed, whose beds were enlarged, some of them to twice the extent of this. In several the water was now only three or four feet wide, while the bed of ten, fifteen, or twenty rods in width was covered for miles with stones from two to five feet in diameter, that had been rolled down the mountains, and through the forests, by thousands, bearing every thing before them. Not a tree, nor the root of a tree, remained in their path. Immense piles of hemlocks and other trees, with their limbs and bark entirely bruised off, were lodged all the way on both sides as they had been driven in among the standing and half standing trees on the banks. While the party were climbing the Mountain, thirty "slides" were counted, some of which began near the line where the soil and vegetation terminate, and growing wider as they descended, were estimated to contain more than a hundred acres. These were all on the western side of the mountains. They were composed of the whole surface of the earth, with all its growth of woods, and its loose rocks, to the depth of 15, 20, and 30 feet. And wherever the slides of two projecting mountains met, forming a vast ravine, the depth was still greater. Such was the report which the party from the mountains gave. The intelligence which Mr. Crawford, and the gentleman accompanying him, brought from the Notch, was of a more melancholy nature. The road, though a turnpike, was in such a state, that they were obliged to walk to the Notch House, lately kept by Mr. Willey, a distance of six miles. All the bridges over the Amonoosuck; five in number, those over the Saco, and those over the tributary streams of both, were gone. In some places the road was excavated to the depth of 15 and 20 feet; and in others it was covered with earth, and rocks, and trees, to as great a height. In the Notch, and along the deep defile below it, for a mile and a half, to the Notch House, and as far as could be seen beyond it, no appearance of the road, except in one place for two or three rods, could be discovered. The steep sides of the mountains, first on one hand, then on the other, and then on both, had slid down into this narrow passage, and formed a continued mass from one end to the other, so that a turnpike will probably not be made again very soon, if ever. The Notch House was found uninjured; though the barn adjoining it by a shed was crushed; and under its ruins were two dead horses. The house was entirely deserted; the beds were tumbled; their covering was turned down; and near them upon chairs and on the floor, lay the wearing apparel of the several members of the family; while the money and papers of Mr Willey were lying in his open bar. From these circumstances it seemed almost certain, that the whole family were destroyed; and it soon became quite so, by the arrival of a brother of Mr Crawford from his father's 6 miles further east. From him we learnt that the valley of the Saco for many miles, presented an uninterrupted scene of desolation. The two Crawfords, were the nearest neighbours of Willey. Two days had now elapsed since the storm, and nothing had been heard of his family in either direction. There was no longer any room to doubt that they had been alarmed by the noise of the destruction around them, had sprung from their beds, and fled naked from the house, and in the open darkness had been so overtaken by the falling mountains and rushing torrents. The family, which is said to have been amiable and respectable, consisted of nine persons, Mr Willey and his wife and five young children of theirs, with a hired man and boy. After the fall of a single slide, last June, they were more ready to take the alarm, though they did not consider their situation dangerous, as none had ever been known to fall there previous to this. Whether more rain fell now than had ever been known to fall before in the same length of time, at least since the sides of the mountains were covered with so heavy a growth of woods, or whether the slides were produced by the falling of such a quantity of rain so suddenly, after the earth had been rendered light and loose by the long drought, I am entirely unable to say. All I know is, that at the close of a rainy day, the clouds seemed all to come together over the white Mountains, and at midnight discharge their contents at once in a terrible burst of rain, which produced the effects that have now been described. Why these effects were produced now, and never before, is known only to Him, who can rend the heavens when he will, and come down, and cause the mountains to flow down at his presence. Yours, &c. CARLOS WILCOX. The bodies of Mr and Mrs Willey, Mr Allen, one of the hired workmen, and the eldest and youngest child, have been found. Не A letter from New-Hampshire mentions that Mr. Willey's dog, after leaving the house with the unfortunate family, returned to it and preserved his life. was much bruised, but assisted in finding the bodies of the family which were discovered. Mr. Jacob B. Moore, editor of the New-Hampshire Journal, in his first number, gives an account of these melancholy occurrences. He reached the Camp 6 3-4 miles N. E. of Crawford's House, and 2 1-4 from the summit of Mount Washington, about ten o'clock on the 27th Aug. the evening before the catastrophe. The Hartford Agricultural Society | the carriage forward over any con offer a premium for the three best cultivated farms. And by this they state, that they have reference to the appearance, neatness, cultivation, arrangement and management of the whole farm-and not a superior culture, or growth of a small part, while the rest is neglected.-The object seems to be not only to render farmers successful in one point; but to iuduce them to be industrious, attentive, and economical; in a word, to make them independent, comfertable and happy. IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT. siderable resistance that the wheels might not be able to overcome alone. BOSTON. SATURDAY, SEPT. 16, 1826. The News-Letter and City Record, will hereafter be issued from the publisher's ENGRAVING ROOM, No. 2, Congress Square, it being more convenient than at the office where it is printed. The Salem Observer quotes the "Classical Journal," for his authority in saying, that the chapter, on Toleration, given in the News-Letter of Saturday, Sept. 2, as the ingenious production of Dr. Franklin, was borrowed by him from Sadi, the Persian Poet." This may be, so far as the particular sentiment is conveyed by the Persian; but the clear, simple, and unaffected language of Franklin, must have rendered the parable more beautiful, and more characteristic of the inspired writings, than that of the de A late London paper gives a description of a new Steam Carriage, which has lately been constructed by a Mr. Gurney, in that city, for travelling on the public roads. The body of it is about the size of a large coach, which it exactly resembles in its appearances, having the same kind of fore and hind boot, the same sized box, dickey, &c. The carriage has nothing about it that indicates that it is intended to be moved in any other than the ordin-clared original author. Franklin ary manner, except that immediately in front, at about 7 or 8 feet in advance of the fore wheels, is placed an oblong box or boot, with a single wheel beneath it, and a dickey seat above it, out of which rises a high pillar. And underneath the body of the carriage are several other pieces of machinery. The steam machinery attached to this carriage is estimated to possess an eight horse power, and yet the weight of the whole, including the cylinders, (of which there are two instead of one) amounts to little more than about 500 pounds; whereas the ordinary weight of the machinery hitherto required to generate the abovementioned power is not less than six tons. The boiler is contained in the oblong box above mentioned. In addition to the application of steam power in the usual way of propelling carriages, it may be applied to feet constructed with the view to force had, of course, to borrow hints from books, as well as men; but his improvements were always great, and always useful-he borrowed the theory of lightning from an ingenious, but unambitious neighbour; but he made such a practical use of the knowledge thus gained, as to cause that element to descend harmlessly to the earth. The great talent of Franklin lay in analysis and illustration, in which he displayed wonderful powers, both of embellishment, as well as clearness and precision. His simple exposition of the division of power, in civil government, by dividing a team, so that half the force shall operate as a repellant, in descending a precipitous hill, is full of wisdom, foresight, and practical knowledge. His knowledge of chymistry and electricity, were principally borrowed from the French, but while residing in France he was acknowledged to have made tons, sheetings, shirtings, checks, tickings,ginghams,blue nankins, &c, which were knocked off with much spirit, at rates a little lower than the same articles have heretofore brought, though at very fair prices, considering the reduced value of numerous, such improvement in those branch- || cassimeres, satinets, flannels, cotes of science, as to cause his name to be ranked among the practical philosophers of the age. His observations, on every useful subject, were remarkably acute-a hint or surmise, new to him, would set his mind in motion, nor would be satisfied until he derived some useful ap-imported articles of the same fabrick. plication of them. We have before The purchasers were us an instance of this train of mind, and all the packages, to this division of the hall sold, the business in which Franklin indulged himself. It is from the moral and beautiful closing about sunset. thought, contained in a poem, which On Wednesday, the sale princiwas written on the death of John pally consisted of boots, shoes and Foster, who established the first print-leather, of which there were exhibing press in Boston. On reading this poem, the fine technical idea struck him forceibly, and he then composed the celebrated Epitaph, which now adorns his tomb. The production of that literary genius, is in the memory of every one; but the concluding part of the poem, from which its first thought is borrowed, has, probably, been read by very few persons: we preserve the record, as we find it in Thomas's History of Printing. "Thy body, which no activeness did lack, DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. On Tuesday last, the sale of Domestic Manufactures, under the patronage of government, and the New-England Society, commenced, and was continued on the two following days, in the spacious Hall of the New Market House. The goods had been deposited a few days previous to the sales literally filling up the space of the extensive room, measuring 530 feet by 50, and attracted the very general notice of our citizens, of both sexes. The sale, which took place on Tuesday, consisted of broadcloths, ited 57,827 pairs of boots, and men's The sale on Thursday, consisted of a large and very elegant assortment of cabinet furniture, glass ware leather and skins together with a number of fine lots of wool, and other domestic merchandize. The company on this occasion, as on the former days, was numerous, and all the articles disposed of, at fine prices, and on actual sales. The credit given on all these sales, over 100 dollars was four and six months. They were free, likewise, from the auction duty. A Correspondent of ours, who attended the recent sales of Domestic Manufactures, in the New Market Hall, cannot, but express his admiration of the quantity and quality of the goods exposed for sale, the fine order in which they were arranged, the spirit manifested in the transaction of such large and unlimited sales, and the dispatch of business afforded by the auctioneers, and their clerks. The scene was animated and interesting beyond any thing which he had witnessed before in this conntry, or at any of the fairs in Europe, of which he has || philosophy, history, &c. &c. The He anbeen a frequent spectator. expense to the city for supporting ticipates the most beneficial effects such an institution, would not be from these annual exhibitions; and great, whereas the benefit to a usecongratulates New-England on the ful class of citizens would be incalprogress and improvements it has culable. made, under the patronage of the New-England society, and the joint efforts of a number of wealthy and public spirited gentlemen of Boston and its vicinity. CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. We have received the first number of this work, which is to be published weekly, in New-York, under the editorial charge of Mr B. Badger, late editor of the Zion's Herald.The paper is of a handsome size, and its columns well stored with theology and miscellaneous literature. We tender our good wishes to Mr. Badger, and hope he will meet the reward of his labour. NEW-HAMPSHIRE JOURNAL. On Monday last a new paper was commenced at Concord, N. H. by Mr Henry E. Moore, under the title of "The New-Hampshire Journal." It boasts to be of the Jefferson school, and promises devotion to the present administration. It is meant, we presume, as a check to (though it may never check-mate) the free and independent principles of the "Patriot." The Journal is to be edited by Jacob B. Moore, Esq. formerly one of the publishers of the New-Hampshire Patriot. Several companies of the uniformed militia of Salem, have visited distant towns on tours of camp duty. Newburyport, Portsmouth, Lowell, Charlestown, Cambridge, and Boston have been honoured by their presence. Such excursions are highly useful, both for exercise and discipline; and may supercede, in some degree, the necessity of gymnasiums. On Wednesday last week, the anniversary of Gov. Endicott's landing at Salem, in 1628, was held at that place by the Essex Historical Society, at which time a new election of its officers took place. Officers of the Essex Historical Society. Edward A.Holyoke M. D. LL D. President. Hon. Joseph Story, Vice President. 66 John Glen King, Corr. Sec. Hon. John Pickering, The object of the Essex Historical Society is to procure and preserve whatever relates to the topography, antiquities, and natural, civil and ecclesiastical history of the county of Essex. Members of the society, and other persons who feel a desire to promote those interesting and important purposes, will gratify the Society by aiding the collections. An Evening School for Apprentices is recommended in some of our papers, and deserves, we think, attention. There are, undoubtedly, many young apprentices in the mechanical branches of business, who are without any knowledge, not only in reading, but of writing and cyphering. A free school, for this description of our youth, would therefore seem to be required by the genius and spirit of the times. High-grees, at Bowdoin College, was 30; er branches of learning, might be added, particularly those of mathematics, natural and experimental The number of young gentlemen, who roceived their Bachelor de those at Brown University, 27, and 9 who received the degree of Master of Arts. At Yale College, |