The Litchfield County post., 1827-06-28

which has so long been visiser eA our coaa." This ishar Cor whales n the river three sailes above Poursunou,h must have been rare pastime Cor. the spOrtsmen Of that place.
 The Spring Session Of the Legislature of Massschn. ses was closed the 10th inst. An appropriation Of SlO 900 was made for the survey ofa Rail Road from Boston to Albany. This indicates a serious purpose on the part of Massachusetts of constructing possi ble, such road. We wish success every underta- king for facilitating intercommunicaon in our coun- try. In anticipation ofthe completion of this great work an ingenious mechanist, of Stockbridge has i- vented an improved Rait,oay Carriage, which so re- duces friction, that horse may draw with perfect ease, upon a level road, Fifty Tons Mir. Morgan the inventor has proved this fact by various expermens One pound attached carriage this construction and suspended bully, moved quickly seren hun- dred pounds
 The general government has sent several engineers to Vermont, to be employed in surveying, ascertain the practcaby of connecting Connecticut river with Lake Champlain, by canal One route proposed is through Orange county; another by the way of White River and of Wells River and athrd proposed route is from Magog Lake, by way of Lamoile River to lake Champlain.
 Maior Laing:-The following is the account pub lished in Paris paper of the death of Mai Laing ,the traveller in Africa It is to be hoped it may prove al fabrication, is stated in the London Courier that despaches received at the Colonial Department from the British Consul in Trpol ,says that there sreason to believe the report unfounded. It does not appear however, whether the Consul at the time of express ing this opinion, was in possession of the particulars as here stated, and the authority which they are said to rest
 hoy olyb thn K A pri :-Major Laing whose tragical fate had been an nounced, has fallen victim to his courageous perse verance, not however until he had visited the fa- nous city of Tombuctoo. The Pacha of Trpoli has communicated this intelligence the auhorthority of letter, which his vassal the governor of Ghada mes, wrote to apprse him of the event, and which let ter reached him in less than en days, being convey ed by an extraordinary courier. The British travel
 ers, who were at first stated to have fallen under the weapons of the robbers, in the territory of Tonal, had then been only wounded, that after having es capped this first danger, through the philanthropy of Marabout, they at length reached Tombuctoo. Shortly after their arrival in that city, the Feans, which powerful and warlike tribe now reigns exclu- siveiy over the immense deserts of Central Africa, appeared to the number of 3O,OOO, and imperiously demanded that the travellers should be given up to them in order that they might put them to death and thereby prevent the Christians from availing them selves of the information to be gained by their means, and from penetrating some day into these remote countries to enslave the people. Such are the ex- pressions of the Schek of Ghadames in his letter to the Pacha. The Prince commanding Tombuctoo re- fused to give up the strangers whom he had received with benevolence; and in order to withdraw them from the enmity of their prosecutors whose resent ment he was unwilling to provoke, he sent them off secretly to Bambara escorted by fifteen horsmen, se- lected from his own body guard but being speedily oyertaken by party oiTellans, who had rapidly Pur- ed them on hearing of their escape, the unfortunate Laing mercilessly strangled with all his compan- ions Such was the trag gca end of the intrepid uav- eler, who the first to penetrate into the precincts 1 s ,n9 sx 3 of which is still likely to es cape the best directed inquiries, according to all appearance, there is no hope of recovering the pa Pers of the unfortunate Laing. Meanwhile the Eel ans whose ambition equal their fcrocity, avail
 ing themselves of Major Laings arrival at Tombucoo and of the species of protection which he had recev- ed there, seized upon that city, and imposed an an- nual tribute, which the inhabitants unable to offer re- sistance, in future to pay for having as 1t IS sad, made themselves accomplices in a project of invasion medtated by the infdels. These last accounts have been communicated by Trpolitan Scheik, who has long resided at Tombuctoo. He declares that there exists very interesting account of that city, which carries back it's foundation to the year 5l0 of the He gira, "A. D. 1l16) and the author of which is Sid- Hamet-Baba, native of Arawaw, small borough of the Rents county considerable colony ofthe Sultan
 memorial has been presented to the Governor of Delaware, desiring him appoint another judge. There is a to be tried in the high Court of Errors and Appeals in that state, in which the Chancellor IS party and his absence deprives the bench of con- sttuiona majority. There must be flaw in the con- suon of that state, if has provided for such an exigency.
 Killed instantly Mr. Stephen Evitts of the town of Pike, Bradford County Pennsylvania by stone thrown at his head on training day. the person who committed the murder is in prison to await his rla- Mir. Evitts formerly from Newprestcn in this County where most of his children reside to la- ment his untimely end. Communicdted.
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