The Litchfield County post., 1828-05-22

tain; and it was the same reasons that prev ented any one in Jamaica from making pur chase of them hrrause the neighhourh00d would have cried shame, had they been put to any senle employment, considering the very special situation ia which they had been brought up, cOntrasied with the unfortunate and unexpected one in which they stOOd.- And as the lot could not be sPperated, ,and no prospect of sale offered. they were allowed to roam at large, in the same manner as if they had been frce.- Marley; or. A Planters life in Jamaica.
 7Re Morgan Afair-The N. Y. Conner Cial Advertiser contains an official report Of the officers deputed by the Governor of New
 York to visit Arkansas and arrest Wm. King who was supposed to be one of the chief act nrs in the abduction and assassination of w. Morgan. King is government store keeper at Cantonment Towson, and the report of the
 NewY York officers affords strong if not con- elusive evidendence that he was aided by Of- fcers of that military station to escape after the persons in search of him had arrived at the cantonment. The report, dispositions & other documents, have been transmitted by Gov. Pitcher to the President with request that the conduct of the commander at the fort may be duly punished.
 The Legislature of New York has adjour- ned to the 7th OfSept. Among the bills pas sed are, the bill to incorporate the Auburn & Owasco Canal Company, the Geneva and Canandaigua Rail Road Company, the Hud- son and Berkshire Rail Road Company the CattskilI and Ithaca Rail Road the Mohawk Manufacturing Company. The subject of the Banks remains for the next legislature. No new Bank has been created, and no old one renewed.
 Ihe Money Morket.-We learn from the N. Y. Journal of Commerce and from yer bal report, that the pressure for money in New York is more severe than ever. Our country is deluged with British goods, and millions of our specie currency is shipped to England to pay for them; so long as this state of things continues the community must suf- fer. Almost all the importers at New-YOrk are Englishmen, and the Americans are be- coming hewers of wood and drawers of wa ter" to foreign power.
 The New York Enquirer says:
 "A great portion of the dollars having been expended, the over-traders have now arrived at the half-dollar; and should war take place in Europe and the specie be drained in England, we shall not have single silver coin left"
 Dreadful Occurrence few weeks since, MT. George Love, of Barre, Vt. was cutting wood near fire over which sap was boiling his wife who was standing near the fire, in lodging from the flame which gust of wind blew in her face, threw her head under the ] axe, which fell upon her neck and entered the bone. She survived few days and left 1 a wretched husband and three children. MT. | Love became deranged, and on the day of her death, left hIs house, and though search ed for in every direction has not yet been found.
 In Camillus N. Y. a girl aged 1g years, s,was burnt to death by her clothes taking fire at a maple sugar manufactory.- Schenectady, 1 N. Y. girl IS years of agein returning from an evening meeting at the Methodist Church in the dark, stepped off the bank of the canal fell into the water,and was drowned.-Homp. Gaz.
 barbarous murder was committed in the l town of Wormsdorf. Penn. by one Umstead, (Olmstead) tobacconist, on Mir. John Whit man, an industrious mechanic of that place,at il dance, when. after slight quarrel, the ma licious wretch provided himself with butch CT knife, and, in an unsuspicious moment, struck it through the head of the deceased at n single blow. The murderer was secured in Reading jail. NFTaWEY TT A I'D TNwEP M ID 4g:a