The Litchfield County post., 1828-07-10

and eternal safety held out to us by our mer. ciful Creator. But there those among who do not fear God or regard the opinions of man, in this particular and if they only injured themselves they might proceed in their mpiety, without the interfer- ence ofthe civil authority but they do harm to others besides themselves. Our children are poisoned by ! their pernicous example. The seeds finquity which they SOW, will spring up and bear fruit all around hence the strong of the law, with the utmost jus tice, & in perfect accordance with free institutions increres for the general good and points the way for restraining such offenders. As muttudes of peo- pie among profess to believe that all laws relative to the Sabbath the relics of superstition, and foud only in the code vulgary denominated Blue Iaws," publish below the law of the state il stands relative to this subject It indeed good law, and only wants enforcing, in order to check the evil com plained of. Our justices ythingrmen grand jurors, and constabes, SWORN to attend to this business, and will, we trust, never be found in the neglect of duty. SEC. 1. Be tt enacted by the Senate aud House of Representatives, in General Assembly conuened.
 That shall be the duty tine citizens ofthis state to attend the public worship of God, the Lords day and that no person or persons shall do any uiar busness work or labor, works of necessity and 1 or work house nor expose to sale any goods, wares or merchand,Ze, or any other property; any sport, game, play or recreaton on the Lords day nor shall any traveller, drover waggoner, teamsler travel said day, except from necessity or chary.-- And every person offending shall pay fine ex- ceeding four dollars less than one dollar. J
 SEC. ?. No person shall be present at any concert of music, dancing, other public diversion, upon the evening preceding the Lords day,on said day, eve- ming fsaid day penalty of four dollars,
 1 SEC 3. No persons shall meet in company, in the eApo ol, ,h1uo tLcT | l1- T public worship ofGod, tho penalty of $l each, for such offence,
 sEc 4. All prosecutions for the breach of the pre- ceeding sections, shall be within month after the commission of the offence. | { SEC 5. Ifany civil process shall be issued or served between the setting of the sun Saturday night and l2 o'clock the succeedngLords day night, itshall be void. sN
 SEC. 6. any person or persons sal either on the Lords day, or ar any other time, wilfully inter rupt disturb any assembly of people met for worship, eachp ofending shall pay fine not l exceeding athirkydollars, nor less than one dollar
 SRC. 6. Each town shall, at their annual meeting, choose two or more tything men, in each society or congregation, who shall be to faithful dis charge of the duties of the office: and it shall be the duty of such tything men to inquire after and make due presentment of all breaches ot this act and ry sher grand juror and tyhing shall have pow CT, an they hereby directed to apprehend and ar rest all persons gressing this act he dealt with according to law; provided they in sghts when taken; and to command all necessary assistance; and whosoever shall neglect to afford his utmost assistance apprehend such offenders shall suffer the pe nates persons who refuse assist sheriffs the execution of their office.
 l SEC 8. No proprietor or proprietors, drivers of any coac wagon. sleigh or other carriage. belonging to employed any line of stages. extra carriage proprietor driver of any hackney coach cOachee other pleasure carriages; shall suffer allow any person persons to travel, except from necessity charity in such carriage vehicle, the Lords day on penalty of twenty dollars for every such offence Provided, that this shall not extend to the owners or drivers of carriages employed for carrying the U. 5. mail. @MG ~@"
 There were three alarms of fire in New-York on the fourth inst. The first and serious discovered about two o'clock in the morning, in Essex x-street. Fifteen buildings were destroyed. The other two fires wele got under immediately after they were dis covered, without having done much damage On tie same evening fire broke out among the rope walks in Brooklyn, which burned three houses,-loss about $25 900. but mostly insured On the 2d inst. another fire broke out in Albany, which threatened immense damage but owing to the favorableness of the wind, and the spirited exertions of the fremen it sub dued without much oss which is estimated at SIP 600. All this is supposed to be the work ofincendiaries. T Neacspapers.-A work entitled the Picture of New York;" contains the following inter- esting article relative to the newspapers pub lished in that city and elsewhere.
 "About one hundred years have elapsed since regular weekly newspaper, called 1he Weekly Gazette, was first published in this city. From that time until the revolution, there continued to be at least one, and occa- sionally two newspapers printed; one of which was the Ne,o York Mercury, in small folio size. Under the Dutch government the au- thorities in the mother country would not al- low of any printing press in the colony. RiU- ington's Royal GazetteS was published regu- larIy during the occupation of this city by the| enemy from 1776 to 178S; and Tn l786, the present Ne,o- York GGzette was established.
 There are now lg daily papers. (8 morning and afternoon,) 8 semi weekly, and - weekly papers regularly printed in this city and, from actual inquiry. the number ofdaiiy papers circulated or issued by the differant offices, is from to 5000 copies, or l5,O0O In all; of the semi-weekly, in all about 5000; and of the weekly, SO,OOO: and if the foregoing estimate is correct, and it cannot vary much either way,it would produce the following re- sults:-
 Daily sheets issued lseoo per sSeo Ssss Semi-weeky, 5000 l6,O00 832 900 Weekly, 3OOUO l,65O,OOO
 TotaI, 7,O72, 900
 Which would consume yearly about l5,OOO reams of paper-the average cost of the same being from S4 to $5 per reanl. R