The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-10-03


still strive to introduce slaves and make
them happy both at Malacca, Pinang and
Singapore and it is hoped that no conces-
sion to the feelings of false humanity, ut
tered at the distance Of 10000 miles, will
be made to interfere with this, or prevent
further importation Of females, so long as
the great disproportion of the sexes shall
continue to exist in these flourishing settle
ments.-e2 Quarterly heview. So ~.
r. Effects Of lightning. The Albany OBJ
server mentions, that the Covenantal church
in Duanesburgh,. was recently struck by
lightning. The electrical fluid ran down
stove pipe, from whence it passed off a.
mong the congregation, then in the act Of
divine worship, stripped the bonnet from
the head of an elderly lady sitting near the
pipe, shocked sensibly, but not severely,
several of>the ladies'; FRUSTRATED to the
floor the son Of the Rev. MIR. M Masters,
then assembled by one of the pillars Of the
pulpit, and actually played upon the cheek
of MIR. Ministers himself, who was offici-
ating in the pulpit, and scorched one or
both Of his whiskers. From. the face Of
the reverend gentlemen it passed off with
ont being further noticed.
The Notwithstanding to Mr.. Corr
mack, the Americans send about 1000
fishing vessels to Labrador alone; and al
lowing that each vessel takes away SO tons
of fish, the whole will be 100000 tons;
each vessel carries from IL to IS men,
whence the number of seamen employed
will be from "a to $4,000, besides those
required afterwards to carry the fish to the
various markets in the two hemispheres.-
They also carry on the fishery extensively
in other parts. The French employ many
men in the fishery of New Foundland, aud
also proportion Of seamen to carry part
of their fish to market. Now the British
the resident fishermen of New Found
land-are not equal in number to the A
mcrican fishermen, who come to the neigh
borhood to fish. About 1000 British sea-
men are employed to carry 10000 tons
of fish to market.--News Of Literature.
From the following paragraph, from a
London paper of July 80, it appears that
Mr.. SYMMEs and Mr.. REYNOLDS are both
likely to be outstripped i'll their enterprise
to the North Pole, or rather, according to
the theory of the former gentleman, to the
North Hole 80
We hear that the next expedition under
Capt. Parry to the Arctic Sea, on which
the Admiralty has just decided, is to- have
different direction and object from those
of former voyages. This We are glad to
hear: for we consider the pursuit of
Northwest Passage to have decidedly fail
ed. A survey Of the Eastern coast of
Spitzbergen is one of its objects. But the
Royal Society has suggested another still
more curious and important. 1t is UNDER
stood that Capt. Parry and party of the
Hecla's crew are to leave the ship at Spitz-
bergen, and attempt TO reach the North
Pole in small boats of a peculiar construc-
ton. We wish them success.
nTsThe Editor of the Troy Budget, in
some remarks on Webster's Eulogy, finds
great fault with the style. The following
Sentences 1.-THE Budget should remember
they are put in the mouth Of another per-
son, and not given as Mr.. Webster's) ex-
cite his critical indignation: .n
:" The war then must go on. We must
fight it through. And, if the war must go
on why put off longer the Declaration Of
Independence T. r. ''s' E3
The Budget thinks these expressive
phrases would BIO more "sonorous and
forcible," if they were written thus:
" If destiny has dccreed that the horrors
of the war must ultimately beencountered,
what advantage shall we derive from snf-,
fering an ill-timed timidityt to gain the as
tendency over US, and to prevent the ex-
ertioDs demanded by the cxigencies Of our
situation2 Why do we not immediately
afixs our names to the sacred instrument
now before us, and evince our unalterable
resolution to support, at the hazard of our
lives and fortunes, the holy principles which
it promulgates2''
Now, to US, Mr.. Webster appears, to
have decidedly the advantage; just as a
cannon charged with grape shot will do
more execution than tubfull of warm milk
and water.--N. y. Eng. ~
Il The First B0nk.-In 1879, the ideas
suggested by the vast increase Of the We
netian Commerce induced payments BY
transfers, or by writing off the sum to be
paid from the account Of the paper to the