The Litchfield County post., 1828-01-17

cOrls, or baWling for the waiters. As the long expected supper is known tO be nO longer forthcoming, when conversation begins tO grow dull and wit to Rag,the party breaks up at reasonable hour, and the health of the visitors iS nut endangered as it formerly was, 1 by walking home in thin attire through the raw morning air. A beautiful description of one of these SOirees is enbalmed in the Amer ican of last evening, communicated by fair correspondent. There isla piece of scandal ahOat, which we are authorised to deny, which is,that on one occasion the gentlemen adiOur- ned at 10 o'clock to different oyster houses; & ] that the ladies being left alone adjourned in their own defence. |
 1 We have no doubt that th consequences of this thorough reform, nod thstanding the complaints of some of our e tcures, will be at- tended with sAlutary consequences. Dispep- sia will become a less frequent complaint, par ties will be less crowded and break up sooner and the excess of fashionable dissipation, will receive timely and saIutary check.-N. Y. E. Post.
 7hc E1ecution.-The sentence of the law was carried into effect upon the per- son of Levi Kelley, for the murder of A. braham Spafard, on Friday last. about 2 o'clock P. M. The weather, during the proceeding day and night, had been tenn pestuous, and on the morning of Friday the rain fell in torrents yet our village was thronged, with men, women, and chil- dren, the convict was taken by Sheriff Hi- ser, apparently in very feeble state of health, and placed upon bed in sleigh drawn by his own horses. On arriving at the gallows scene ensued which beg gards all description. A staging of hum dred feet in length and twelve in depth, the front having been elevated 6 feet and the rear 8 feet from the ground, erected for the accommodation of spectators, and under and upon which it is computed there were at least 600 persons, on the prisoners approaching | he scaffold, the crowd upon the platform instinctively leaned forward, and it fell 10 the ground carrying with it all its occupan.s,and crush suching beneath it as could not escape. Fortunately it's course was horizontal: had it been direct, hundreds must have been irnmediately kill led. Then came the lamentations of the multitude for the safety of their friends and relatives, and the rush to their relief. A scene so unexpected and horrifc, was emjnentIy calculated to absorb every oth- CT feeling, and an assemblage of more than 4OOO persons seemed for the moment en- 1 chanted to their tracks. Efforts at relief, were promptly made, and number of bo- dies were drawn from under the fallen timbers in a state of total insensibility. Among them was the body of MT. Elisha C. Tracy. engraver of the village, the up- CT part 0f wh,se face was actually crushed in more thAn ,an inch. Life was wholly extinct. An elderly man resident at Rlch;icld, named Daniel Williams, had his leg and arm broken, ,and died about 5 o. clock P. M. Mrs. Patten, wife of Mr.. David Patren of Otsego, had limb frac- tured, and daughter of MT. Platner, of this village, had her leg broke and body much bruised.
 Twenty or thirty other persons, among whom is young man from Springfield, na- med Stanard, were severely hurt.-As the high excitement of this calamitous event had in some degree subsided, by the as- certainment of the injuries received and ] LILO TeWOFdI OI luc ucdu dNV ''OuuueU ITOm the ground he Convict was taken from the sleigh and assisted to ascend the gall lows, and upon the rope being noosed a. round his neck by the Sheriff, and his soul recommended to the mercy God in a shor. prayer from the Rev. Mr. Smith, in which he appeared to participate, the drop fell, and after few slight twitchings of the limbs, his body hung for thirty minutes, a monument of the vengeance of the law for the wrongful taking of the life of ra- tional being in the violence of passion. Upon cutting the rope and letting down the body, it was committed to the care of his relatives for christian burial.
 MT. Tracy, whose sudden death is a- bove noticed, by the disastrous falling of the staging. was forty years of age, and has left a wife aud five children. who were wholly dependant upon his mechanical la- bor for their support. MT. Williams was an old and in6rm man. Some of the oth- CTS who were wounded, lie in dangerous situallOn-hopes are however. entertained of the recovery of all of them.
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