capital offence to molest one of these interesting quadrupeds while roaming the streets!"--[Oh! what a lying jade!] _Salem Observer,_ Oct. 13, 1832. * * * * * 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. * * * * * "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 the Doctor did not live in our day, as he would have found in the excitement which has recently prevailed here in relation to the Mill Dam, Theatre, &c., new proofs of the correctness of his hypothesis. "In Salem and its neighborhood _Enthusiasm_ and other _nervous disorders_ seem to be _endemial_. _Hypochondriack_, _hysterick_, and other _maniack_ disorders prevail there, and Ipswich adjoining, to this day." _Salem Register,_ 1826. * * * * * Beer and cider "Federal liquors." PHILADELPHIA, July 23 [1788]. A correspondent wishes that a monument could be erected in UNION GREEN, with the following inscription:-- IN HONOUR OF AMERICAN BEER AND CYDER. It is hereby recorded, for the information of strangers and posterity, that 17000 people assembled on this Green, on the 4th of July, 1788, to celebrate the establishment of the Constitution of the United States, and that they separated at an early hour, without intoxication or a single quarrel. They drank nothing but Beer and Cyder. Learn, reader, to prize those invaluable _federal_ liquors, and to consider them as the companions of those virtues which can alone render our country free and respectable. Learn likewise to despise SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, as _antifederal_; and to consider them as the companions of all those vices which are calculated to dishonour and enslave our country.