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On our last page of this week will be found an abstract Of tlle fifst Annnal Report of the

 Prison Discipline Society, established in Bos-

 ton. It ia highly interesting docuinent, and

 throws loud af liglft upon tns present per-

 verse system pf Pris0n Discipline: stsiem

 at watch American phiIanthr0pists may well

 niusn. " tate DAken beard it remarked, when any e c0nssets oA our state prisons are Feleased rom connnement, that 1t Was lGtting 's tyEefs

 loose upon society" 1t has invariably prov

 ed to be thus. Surely in this day of know

 ledge and benevolence, if any systenn- needs .

 thorough change, it is that of the mode oftreaf- ing and Punishiag criminals. And we are not a little mortified at finding, however bad may be the system in our sister states, that in Con- necticut the system is worse than bad--itis abs solutely abOminable-and if persisted in, will bring blot upon the state which aIl our noble institutions cannot easily wash out. sIYelwish the Report of the Boston Society may be read by every citizen of our state and country, and a cordial cooperation be given 10 the society, by the formation of auxiaries, until more wise and consisting mode of punishment is established throughout the United States.

 PHI BETA KAPPA. .--JAsEs A. HrLL- HOUSE, Esq. son of the Hon. J. Hillhouse, has been appointed to deliver the Grafton, and q ANtESs N1s A0&OO1ASs Esq. EQ1tOf OL INc Ne . Ladies Literary Gazette, the Poem, at the celebration of the next anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in New. Haven.

 N Since onr first side was struck off we learn that the list of Justices of the Peace for this county, inserted in our first page is very incorrect. Before our next publication we shall procure from the Clerks Office correct copy and give it to our readers anew, K.

 Erratd.-In our last, through a part of the Impression the word JIoos was used instead of jodms, in the toast given by Mir DAT. It should have read :. Hallowed be each drop which foams for thee.n Also, for M. .SAQ6er read J. L. sSkg6er. M

 In 1920, there resided in Nantucket upward of 900 persons of the Hane of Corr FIN, all the descendants of Tristram Coffin who settled in this country in 1644. Ad- miraI Coffin oftke British navy one of the descendants and native of this country, is now on visit to his friends in Boston and it has been proposed, should he visit Nantucket, that allthe Coffins turn out and escort him. The Inquirer observes that this, though designed to express welcome might nevertheless be denominsted very grace procession"