The Litchfield County post., 1828-09-11
OFFICE OF THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY.

Whereas il has pleased the Great Disposrr
of human events To remove by death, on the |
25th Of Aug last, the Rev. JEHUDl ASH
NUN. Colonial agent at Liberia
Resolved. That in officially announcing this
event. the Board Of Managers express. with
due submission To the will of Providence,
their deepest sorrow, for the loss of the valu-
able services Of Mr.. Ashmun.
Resolved, That the members of this Board
will wear Grape on the left arm,for one month,
in testimony of their respect for the deceased
Resolved That the first town or settlement
to be appropriated to the cOlOnists in Liberia
he named Ashmun, in memory of that dis.
tinguished philanthrOpist.
Resolved, That these resolutions be publish
ed in the News Papers of this City.
JAMES CAURIE, Prs. B. NJ.
Washington Sept. /.
Warning.-A young man employed in the
Factory at Springfield, has been fined ten
dollars and cost, amounting to t,Uenty t,Co dol
lars and half for taking three sweet apples
from farmers orchard in that town. He is
now IN Jail for want of funds to pay the fine.
We understand that the sentence of the
court in the case of Bruce, has been defer
!
| shall have been obtained. as to the legality of
! trial at Canandaigua, it being commended by
| the counsel of the defendant, that in as much
as the offence, if any, was committed in the
county of Niagara. the Ontario session had
no jurisdiction over it. Mr.. Bruce, in the
| mean time, has been ad mitted to bail
| Ram Storm in England - From the 10Th to the
10Th OF July, the ne'ghborhood of Manchester vi
slted BY the most boserous and disagreeabe weather
ever known at that season OF the year. Owing to the
quantity of rain that fell the rivers in the neie hborhood
overlooked their banks In the neighborhood ofDids-
bury and Stockport two or three buildings swept
away and vast deal OF injury done the stocks
anu macnery OF several factories situated by the river
side. Several bridges also swept away, and the
roads in many places became impossible. The whole
OF the lower parts Of Cheshire appear to have expert
enced almost second deuge In the neghbOrhoods of
Warburon and Darlington, the appearance that of
VIDE eXpanse of water, and parties might be seen
IN boats sailing cdfnfelds, which few hours be-
fore promised 10 yield abundant harvest. 1t sup
posed, IRON deliberate computation, that on the banks
OF the Weaver Navigation, extending from FrodsCam
Bridge to Northwlch than 800 acres of grass
have been destroyed swept In the vicinity of
Liverpool less damage had been done tho many othe
meadows were entlre overlooked. AT the Stamford
bridge at Chester, all the surrounding meadows were
! under water, and men were wadng in the fields up to
their waists with ropes in their hands, and endeavor
ing to secure the CATTLE The river Weaver, at North
w!ch rose so high to undermine the warehouse Of
r. Hatfield, Esq. salt merchant, whic III fell with ire
mendous crash The lower stories of the houses we e
filled and stock in the shop cellars floating about a
house in Wilton Street fell down and The water final
ly became deep that boats procured aud Iaun-
ched IN the Streets and many persons rescued
from the second stories of their houses by means
ladders. In the vicinity of Glasgow immense quantl-
ties of rain fell but the damage the crops not SO
great as in some other paris OF the country The food
places had been attended with the loss of life
several dead bodies had been pckedup
Bank of the United States.-At meeting of the
Stockholders of the Bank OF the United States held
on Thursday last Messrs. Charles Chaunccy, Alex
ander Henry, Cadwaader Evans, Charles Jared Ing
| erso, James Ronaldson, and James c. Fisher, were
appointed Committee to examine the statements
laid the table bv the President. The meeting hen
adjourned II nine o'c o"k the next day.
This tnang The Committee, through their Chair
man, Mr.. Chauncey, made report responsive to the
address of the Notwithstanding statement Of
the condition OF the Bank in Aug 1928, and a com
parson of It's present condition with it's condition in
1922. Very warm encOniums are bestowed the
President in the report and the measures which have
been taken TO decrease escircuatiOn the Bank and
end its business are highly applauded, The report
stration of the bank every thing general and par
tcular. which resolutions were adopted with ut dis
senting voice.
1t is stated in the report, that the profits Of the last
year exceed those of 1922 in the Of 1923 900; g.
were greater by $979OO0 than the average profits for
the three years proceeding 1922.
The specie hand. on the LIST of August last, was
6,393, OOO-crculaon, ,0OO-public deposits g.
563 0O0-Private do. 1901 ,O00-Funded debt held by
the Bank, 16, $3.50 000-Discounts 81, 10000 0OO-Con-
tngen Fund, 4,3OO, OOO-Suspended debt, 100000
Phil. Gas.
Fire at Paterson, ". I'VE are sorry to learn
that the thriving town of Patterson was visited by
destructive fire Sabbath afternoon last, and thai
nearly whole block Of buildings were consumed
The fire broke in The Livery stable of Mr.. Paxon
in Vanhouten-sreet, and made us way Man-street
and thence to EIsonstreet Ii il said that 30 or 40
buildings were burnt We have heard no estimate OF
! the loss Of property. II must be considerable.
Ignorance and Crime connected.-According to a
table which has been drawn up il appears, that crime
has been alarmugly upon the increase in Bedford Eng
since the commencement of The present century, and
from statements made in the House Of Commons, 1t
would appear that that county is not singular case.
1t has been alleged that the education of the lower
orders is of the increase Of crime; how
falsely may be from this fact that on examination
Of every prisoner under confinement in Bedford gaol
made by Capt. Bromley, the agent of the British and
Foreign School Society, in company with Rev. DR..
Hunt, one of the visiting Magistrates, ON the 18th
February last, it found that of 13 prisoners,
only % could read Inteig by--22 read imperfect
y as not understand what they read-and SO were
totally unable TO read!-Am. s. s. Mag.
Fourth of July.-The Liverpool Mercury says:
" FRIDAY last being the fourth of July and the ann,-