The Litchfield County post., 1828-07-03

1 Pennington CGn0a.-On Friday last the canal boat James HiIlhOuse, was launched at
 Pennington, under a salute of artillery. with band of music, Gc. A party of two hund-
 red ladies and gentlemen embarked on board, and were drawn by team of four decorated greys few miles on the new channel opened tO commerce in that direction. They crOs- sed the Pennington river, on an aqueduct S6 feet in heighth, partoOk of refreshments on the excursion, and returned at sunset, amid the acclamations of a large cOncOurse of spectators assembled on the ratiOnally joyful occasion. HGiL and ,OinG.-A correspondent at Broad albIn. Montgomery county N. Y. writes, that on the 9th inst. hail storm passed through the centre of that town, and did much dam age to the rye, fences, windows, &c. On the 18th, the town was visited by another storm severer than had ever been known be- fore. For two miles in width, and to great extent, it destroyed nearly all the corn,bar- ley, oats, and peas, and broke nearly all of the glass in the north and west sides of buildings. It was preceded by tornado, which prostrated trees, fences, &c.-N. Y. Am.
 Ghost Story.-The Springfield Republican | states that the people in the neishborhood of Mount Tom, in West Springfield, have been troubled on account of a babbling ghost. 1 which some workmen pretended to have
 heard in the night. One man said he had
 not only seen the ghost, but conversed with { it, (although it had no head,) and that the
 headless form informed him that he was the
 ghost of Timothy Felt, who was murdered about three years ago. The people turned { out to find the bones of Timothy Felt, but
 did not discover tkem.
 There has been another disgraceful out j rage at the Sandwich Island occasiOned by the tabu on females. The balls from ves- seI flew about the mission house at Lallaina, and Mrs. Richards, with babe about fort night old, was carried into the cellar, and was injured. A cannon ball weighing g pounds was picked up near the house. The particulars will probably appear in the Missionary Herald.-Hdmp. Gaz.
 The Monmouth Bank, situated at Freehold, N. J. has closed its doors against its creditors, in other worlds has failed. Ths adds another the long list of broken New Jersey banks, whose capitals were hol- den by Wast. stock k-jobbers and specuIators. It will be perceived by ourst off bs that there are at least few good banks in that state, and also that their bills are bankabe here and at Hartford.
 Mir. SMITH In your paper of last week. you noticed the lecis- ion of our Supreme Court relative to the incompetent cy of an universal;s as itness. In that notice are one or two which ought to be corrected. The case upon this point is not, as your statement would imply, reserved for further argument. The decision ofthe Court was final, and settles the law in this state This subject is of much interest, and therefore take the liberty to state the precise point determined by the Court. The person offered as witness belie- we'd in the existence of God that men were punsh- ed in this life for their sns and that they were made immediately happy after death. The grounds of the decision not before the public, but the Court de- termned that with this creed the person offered was not competent witness. It was argued in favor of his admission, that all which the law required of wit
 ness was that he should believe in such creed as that an oath would create tie upon his conscience, that such tie existed f the witness believed in God and in accountability to that God. and that whether that accountability existed in this life future life immaterial. On the other hand, it contended that belief in future accountability was necessary in order to create the required hold upon the witness conscience; that who profess to believe this life
 state of retrbution do not, and from the nature of the case cannot believe it with such confidence and sincerity as to be influenced by their faith x that the motives operating upon the minds of those who do sn- cerely helieve it, any such be found are tsuf
 cent to deter them from perjury, or to make it safe to trust our lives and rights to their testimony.
 A CARD.