The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-02-23

authors been doing These authors, return
ed he, never searched the sculptures for what
ought 10 be believed, bit for tChGt they did be-
here themselves. They did moi consider them
as a book wherein were contained the doc
trines which they ought TO receive, but as
work which might be made to authorize their
own ideas" Campbell.
LITERARY.-It has been found by
computation that the Boston octave edition
of ScoTr's FAMILY BIBLE, contains four
thousand foe hundred end fifty pages;
each page on an average, containing about
four times as much matter AS a common
limo page consequently, the whole
work IS equal in quantity to about FIF-
TY DUODECIMo VOLUMES of $50 pages
each
Of this Commentary ten editions have
been published in the United States viz,
one in Connecticut, two in New Y ork.
three in Philadelphia, and four in Boston !;
and yet probibly not one person in five
hundred possesses the work.
Gen. Washimgton's NOTES.-THE Ma
tional Intelligencer says-"It is with great
satisfaction that we have learnt that Mr..
Jared Sparks, Editor of the North Ame-
rican Review, has made arrangements
with Judge Washington, for publishing an
entire edition of Gen. Washington's Works
to consist of his Letters to the Governor
of Virginia, during the French War, his
State Papers, o fficial Correspondence both
military and civil, and such of his Private
Letters as may be deemed suited for pub
LEGATION; the whole to be comprised in a
series of volumes, with Notes and Illustra-
tions by the esteemed Editor. 1t is well
known that Gen. Washington preserved.
with scrupulons care, copies ofhis own Let
tiers, as we'll as the prodigious number
of originals, which he received from other
persons"
Ardent Spir;ts.-An estimate was late
ly made of the amount of money yearly
in small town in Vermont, tor
ardent spirits, and the result was, that if the
other towns in the state expended as much
in proportion to their population, (which
was altogether probable, --then the whole
yearly expense of the state for intoxicating
liquors would not be less than $334,OOO
ELIZABETH CRY, Jan. 20.
Emigration Of People of Color.-Du-
ring the present week, twenty-eight ne
groes belonging to the society of F riends,
and four who were free, left this place for
Norfolk, to take passage in the brig Doris,
Capt. Matthews, which sails shortly for
Liberia. 1t appears from the yearly
Meeting Of Friends in this state, held in
November last, that about 800 people of
color under their care, were conveyed to
free government during the last year, the
expenses of which was about $500. 1t
also appears that about 600 still remain,
500 of whom are willing to emigrate to
free governments upwards of 800 to Lii
IBERIA, and the other to other places. All
that is wanting are sufficient funds and OPP
portunity. Donations have been made to
the Melting from different sources amount
ing to -$4794.
The Morgan Casc.-We learn from the
Western papers that another convention
has been held at Lewiston, to discover,
if possible, the fate of Morgan. The Buff
talo Patriot states that sufficient evidence
was collected to satisfy the convention that
after Morgan had been kept few days at
Fort Niagara, he was deliberately put to
death at that place.
The Enquirer of this morning gives an
other and more particlar version of the
story, ON the authority of gentleman
from Albany, who had read letter from
respectable gentleman of Genesee, to one
of our senators, who states names and pla-
ces in relation to the abduction of Morgan,
which, if true, are horrible.
''It is said he was carried across the |
frontier into Canada by three persons,
whose names are too respectable to hazard
without strong proof: that an application
was made to Brandt, an Indian chief, and
a mason, to have Morgan conveyed to the
North West Coast, but he refused to have
any thing to do with the affair. The per-
sons then addressed themselves to some
masons in the British service, to have
Morgan carried down the St. Lawrence
and put on board vessel; this was also
declined: Morgan was then confined, with
his arms pinioned, in the Fort, and the
gentlemen held some kind of trial, in
which it was determined to put him to
death; and that before day-break they
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