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, 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