The Litchfield County post., 1827-01-19

| muSh udNeheup ana Us source or emolument to its prOprictors. Most of the travellers on this road make use of it only distance of five miles, for which they are obliged to pay full fees at the toll gate. Most of them too resort to this ViI- lage on business which detains them here
 for considerable time thus contributing by their expenditures to the riches and { prosperity of the place. Under these cir comstanccs l%ey feel it peculiar hardship that they arc obliged for days and weeks to explore the woods, the fields, and the swampS to find a passage hither. The road from its commencement to the foot of the hill, has been totally blocked up by drifts since Saturday last, and still remains impossible. No attempt has been made to break it or clear it out except by the unwary traveller, who for want ofhelp has found himself compelled to back out and unravel the mazeS of side path, which has been struck out by some perseverine adventurer, and which after displaying to the lover ofthe picturesque all the varieties of hill and vale, rock and rail fence, zigzag and retrogade passages, finally conducts him by circuit of a mile to fair view of the east front of your venerable and ele- gant meeting house. The road is in much the>same condition for nearly two miles from town.
 Now, although the varieties of overtur- { ming, joting and swamping in snow drift, may all be agreeable at a proper time and season, yet they are by no means pleasant exercises for weary and frozen travellers. On the contrary their complaints are loud and frequent. They ask whether it is not as much the duty of the turnpike directors to clear and break path when the road is obstructed by snow drifts as when stopped by fallen trees it is their duty to remove them. They ask i'll vain to whom they are to look for help or redress. They are told perhaps that the directors have gene rously thrown open tl-o toll gate, and that without being compelled to pay for their own labour. This is a poor comfort indeed. A road is made for the accommodation of the public. High, I might say exor- bitant) fees are paid for that accommoda- tion~-and it is the undoubted duty of the company at all times and seasons to keep the road in good repair.
 But have little hopes of arousing the directors to a discharge of their duty. My object in this long communication is to ask the citizens of Litchfield Hill, whether it does not become them to wipe away the reproach by turning out and relieving the weary traveller of the necessity of such perilous adventures as now fall to his lot in approaching the seat of justice.
 1he Detendent for himscD. ! On the 9th inst. came on at Canandaigua, NY. before the Court of Oyer and Terni- ner, the trial of the indictments in the case of the kidnapping of Capt. Morgan. Three in dividuals pleaded guity-a fourth was tried imprisonment in the county jail, one for two years, the others for few months. Morgan has not been heard of, and the most impene- 1 trable mystery hangs over his fate. We trust investigation will not cease until there shall be full development of the truth.
 { A Comet has been discovered for several evenings of last week, visible small distance l s. E. of the planet Mars. It is at present too distant to form any correct judgment of its course, but we mention the fact to draw the attention of Astronomers to it.-Nat. Int. MT. SMITH, ...
 When you issued your first paper you said "that any personal pieces would not be inser- aed;" Ifso why did you admit two pieces of (would bel poetry in your two last papers. l..
 Our correspondent l." has undertaken to quote from our first number words which we never used, and sentiments which we never intended to advance. It is impossible to pub fish paper without personalities. We how ever did say, and now repeat, that our col umns shall not be vehicle of personal slan- der and abuse; but we ''shall' always and fearlessly oppose unwarantable assumptions of power on the one hand, and unbridled li- centiousness on the other" The first article referred to, was, on the first receipt, thrown aside as unworthy of insertion in decent pub lication; but on learning that it was intended simply to satirize disreputable and immoral conduct, we inserted it {; but are now ready to say it should not have been published. We never saw the last scurrilOus dOggcrell until we saw it in print. After having prepared mat ter for the paper, we left town for three days, and did not return until after the paper was printed. We will add that the hands in our office would not have admitted it, but as an advertisement. We can assure the friends of good reading that they shall not again he In- suited, through our columns, by such vulgar [