The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-11-07


MiddletOwn and this place, but the calcula-
tons had not been made so as to inform
us how high we are above our New-Haven
friends. The result of these observations
will hereafter DO communicated, and our rea-
ders will know correctly, whether we are
mile. or not more than quarter Of mile
higher than tide water. Capt. p. assured us
that the latter will approach nearer the truth
than the former. We cannot speak Of this
visit as military display, as it was not the
intention of the principal that this excursion
should be considered specimen of military
discipline. We are informed that it is the in
tention of Capt. Partridge to visit this county
the next season, and crafty our citizens with
view of his well disciplined corps of young
Soldiers: By a catalogue of his academy Just
published, it appears that the number of Ca
detsis two hundred and ninety four, and that
twenty-five professors and instructors are en-
ployed in the institution.
Mr.. Daniel Hinsdale was recently impgison-
ed in New-Haven Jail, by virtue of sundry ex-
ecutions in favour Of the United States, "a
mounting to $4,000. The firm of J. & ID.
Hinsdae of MiddIetown are indebted to the
Eagle Bank, and of course to the holders of
Eagle Bills, in immense sums, said to be up
wards of 100000. When poor man is i'm
prisoned, for debt, necessarily incurred to
save his family from suffering, but little ifany
cOmmiseration is felt for his fate; but when
man is imprisoned for hundreds of thous. Ids,
any part Of which he declares himself unable
to pay, certain portion of the public is ever
ready to look upon his case as one peculiarly
hard, and his treatment the offspring of mall
ice and Jealousy but fifty winters may pass
over Mr.. HIS solitary Imprisonment, before
we will call his case persecution, unless he sat
isfactorily accounts for such large sums slip
ping through his fingers without any part off
sticking. Mr.. Hnsdale does not pretend, as
we have ever seen, that he has met with los
ses in his mercantile transactions,-he only
says he cannot pay the debt, and that his Gre
ditors are as cruel and as unfeeling as the hu-
man heart is capable of being. The proba-
bility is, the Messrs. Hinsdales are unable to
pay their debts without stripping themselves
completely ofuproperty and rather than en-
dure this, they are willing to forswear them
selves, aud cheat their honest creditors out
of their dues.
The Female School in this village closed its
summer term on Monday, the soth ult. The
exhibition was highly interesting, and the evil
dences Of improvement and of good scholar
ship must have been very satisfactory to the
parents of the young ladies and the friends of
female education. The first prize was justly
awarded to young lady from Lancaster, Ohio.
daughter of the Hon. Mr.. Ececher, member of
Congress. Several other prizes were award
ed for improvement, and excelling in the vari-
GUS branches taught in the school. We have
never been acquainted with school which
seemed to combine the excellencies ofrepubli-
can simplicity and polite accomplishments in
SO great degree, as, in the female school in
this village; or where greater degree Of am
bition is felt for improvement. In saying this
we say nothing new to the majority ofour rea-
ders. This school was celebrated for its ex-
cellence long before female seminaries were
common in the United States; and notwith-
standing the thousands that have of late years
sprung up,as SO many gems to adorn our land,
yet this ancient and excellent seat Of learning
has lost nothing by the competitions but has
ever commanded. aud will still command an
Overlooking school from the first and most re-
spectacle families in our country. The cata-
logue just published, gives the names of one
hundred and sirteen young ladies who have at
tended the school the last year. The winter
term commences the first week in December.
A scarlet beet was raised this season in the
garden of Mr.. John Kilbourn which measured
"a inches in circumference, and weighed ~
lbs. We have seen several notices of large
apples, gatheredin different parts ofthe coun-
try, but none as large as one that was exhibit
ted in this village at the late cattle show, which
weighed SO ounces Beat this who can.
A few weeks since an incen diary attempt
was made to burn the honse and printing of
fee of Mr. Miller edifor of the Batavia