Litchfield enquirer., 1829-12-17

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 u We arc indebted to the Hon, ,. W, Tguw,lnr. ton, our immediate Representative in Congress, Cor copy Or the PresdcWGs message, and OsO Cor sundry documents accompanying It.
 | HJ" The New.York Courier, the organ of Jackson and TammNnylsm iW that city, has ber0 Ehr moW1hs abusing Mr. AdNms t6r his lOUg mcssagcs, aud auinr Gen. JachsOn (or his breV,y. h ,hO, paper of only ihc day before the message was received n NSwYOrk was the following passage ,--" The messNpe will uos be IoRg ciNdy production! will be oCjus. the pru. per length tO bC read aud remcmbcred!w To show how strangely wide of tho mark this editor is, will be sufficient to point the rca,er to the preceding papC. Gen. JacksOn's message s considerably longer ,hOn ! any Mir. Adams ever delivered. It occupies 60 much space in the next days Courier ,hOt the ctitOr ocS not find room to guy word about l,s length!
 Hon. Thomas B. Reed, OMC or the Senators from Aississippi in Congress, died H exiMg,on Ky on the 26,h ut. He had reached that place on his way to the seat of government
 The late Assistant POstmNster General, A, Bradley. Esq. is about to remove to Faycnc county, Ohio, to cultivate farm.
 EGectS of the PVesideRt's Messdgr the day nre. viOus to the receipt or the Pvesdcns message in New York, U. :. Bank stock wNs quoted at l96 per cent; on the next day 1t sunk to l20 in consequence is said, Of,he remarks of the president upon that Ucct
 William A. DOcr, Esq. LL. D, ono of tho Judges of the Supreme Court of New.York, was lac. week chosen Prcsiden, of Columbia College.
 Lotteries-The Boston papers state that the Drec. tors of tho Bunker Hil Monument Association have passed resolution petition the next Legislature or Massachusetts 10 pass aM net for raising by lottery $5O,000 to complete the Obclisk. Under the present laws of ha, state lottery tickets canno. be vcndcd and the penalty ~c believe is quite severe. 1 Temperance ,imo since the publishing com. mi,.eo of the American Tract Soc,cty in New.York offered . premium of $50 for the best written ,vNc, ",o influence the young to abstinence from nrdent spirits" The committee met last week, and after OK. aming 24 manuscripts offered, awarded the premium to tho Rev. Austin Dickinson, of Ncw-YOrk. Mr. D. however declined tho acceptance oC the money. Tho traCt Is to be immediately published.
 Henry Bald,pin-It is intima,cd in many of the pa. pcrs particularly those oi Pennsylvania thN this gen.
 omNn will probably be appointed to ill the vacancy the bench of tho Supreme Court accustomed ny tho death Of Judge Washington. This selection we should think good one. Mr. D. is a native oi this sta,c- and that perhaps may with some Of the southern po teians be a bar to his promotion.
 ] ErecMEioN,-OWr readers may remember that some
 time since an account was published of murder hay. ing been committed by a gang Of slaves upon ,hor owners, who were taking them down tho Ohio to Louisiana. Several of those concerned in the murder were apprehcndcd, and committed to the jail In GrecnupsbUrg, Kentucky, for trial. Tho trial and conviction of four of the ring has taken place. and they were sentenced to be hanged. The follow. ing short accoun. of tho las. momensor these wretch cd creatures we copy by request, from Portsmouth. 1 tOhio,) paper of thc 2ah ut.
 "Wo have been toIh by one who was prcsen. n. tho execution of the four Negro slaves, Greenupsburg, Friday week, that they nll maintained to tho last, the u,mos, frmncss and resgna,io" Co their fate. They severaly addressed tho assembled multitude, in which they attempted to justify the deed they had mucd, on the principle acknowledged ny ali white men, That is lawful in the sight of God and prin. cpe implanted in the breast of every man by Nature gh, for freedom, and say tho ,yrant who dares to deprive them of it, This only they had done, aud having failed to accomplish the object for which they slew their merciless oppressors, srafckers ia human flesh, it remained tor them to pay the forfeit of that failure with their livcs They had done more than their judges and utoners would have done under similar circumstances; and that too, with solemn appeal io the Judge of heaven and earth, for the in iegry of their motives and the justice ftheir cause. "One of them while standing upon the cart just ready be launched into e,erniy exclaimed, several times" Death -DeGth, any tims, iH pTetsTvnes sO skarery!" During tho whole time they stood under the galiowa, not joint was seen t0 iremble, nor sigh heard ,o escape from them. They joined with great animation in the singing of an hymn; aer whch they shook cordially the hands of all who near them, and were launched of, enjoying what they sup posed to be the full trumps Of the Christians aith" ! Mv. Adams.-T s stated that Ex-Prestlent Adams will spend the winter in Washington, on account of the health of his wife.
 Niagoro FGiLs.-The vessel Superior, which was to have Aoa,e over the Falls last fa bat accidental ly lodged upon rock, was a few days ago. n cOnse- quenee of the rise of the water " seoFm driven oh and Hoa,ed down the cataract entire.
 Specie.-225, 900 dollars in specie were lately sent from New-York to be deposited in the United States Bank in Philadelphia.
 |. Mail Ro6Sery-The stage running to Potssvllr, Pa.