Litchfield enquirer., 1830-06-17

anxiety to hear their doom. Here polutnb to them, who rising, both stood forth toylew' side by side. The effect was PropItious.- Cries Ofe'' leave! leave!" rang through tne Hall-the bills were passed, sena. eoH.--ano the veterans, lowing respectfully. withdrew.
 This well-timRd mOveme ent of MT. De Witt saved the bills. for they stood at the bottom of the calender, beyond the hope of being reached ere the adjournment.
 a~ '. StGtes Tslegroph.
 Justice Sacrificed tO PGrty.-The Editors ofthe New-York Journal of Commerce have made themselves responsible to the public for the truth 6ftIe subjoined alarming state ment.
 ..In relation to the Indian bill, we have the best authority for saying, that the bill would have been rejected by a considerable majority if the members had received ahy prenonition as to the stand the President would take upon the MaysviIIe Road Bill The decision was carefully concealed. lest 1t should endanger the passage of the Indian bill and in the mean time, all the machinery of party was put in motion to induce the friends of the Administration to snbserve the views of the Executive. Itwas boldly avow- ed by some of the party, that they would never have yielded their private judgments to the solicitations of their party friends, could they have dreamed that the President would succumb to the South. and abandon his former established principles, for the pur- pose of vainly endeaxpring to pacify 5. Car olina and Virginia" I Salem Murder.--It is stated in the Salem papers that the chief offender, the originator of the diabolical plot, had been admitted as witness on the part of the state. From | private letter, it appears that the Knapps were willing to screen themselves from legal punishment, by becoming the witness for the Government, and that committee waited on the father of them, to know which should be excepted. The thoughts of seeing the |doom ofaone of his own children was more shan nature could support, and the feelings of the father for a season conquered those of the man. Pointing to the chamber in which the wife of his oldest son lay, he said On account of that young creature, save my old est" The scene is described as agonizing 1 beyond human endurance.
 The wife of J.J. Knapp, Jr. now about 20 years old, is one one of the most beautiful and accomplished ladies in Salem, and the entire dev otion of her husband had become l prov erbial in that town. She has not yet been permitted to visit him in prison. Her grief and mental agony are beyond descrlp- ton, and she mourns as those without hope" Although not permitted to visit her husband. she insisted on going to the Jail. } where she was carried in carriage: but she was unable to look up when she got there.-
 Knapp went to the window of the prison tu
 see her, and it is said he did not discover any lextraordinary emotion.
 ltis lamentable, in the highest degree, thai the fate of two such beings should be so inti mateiy and so inseparably united. Yet so | lis-an innocent, and a virtuous, young, anG amiable female, made to adorn her sex, is u
 der mn an outlaw rom s iavoT and pro; pro , lection ofsociety.
 Murder.--About A o'clock on .Sunday
 morning. 9th inst. Henry Comp, with oth
 CTS. entered the store of Mrs. Vultse, at til.
 corner of Orange and Chatham streets, fo,
 something to drink, and Comb was spoken tc by one of them, and not answering, he being deaR he was knocked down, and thrown oI dragged out, and then beat and kicked su that in few minutes he was corpse. Ca leb Griffin, Edward Johnson and Thomas Scott, have been committed and will be held
 for trial.-N.Y r. Daily Ado.
 Aflicting 1ccident.-lt becomes our un.
 pleasant duty to announce the death of Sam. uel Bradley, of Guilford, aged 16 years, son of Mir. Benjamin Bradley, who was killed in- stantly by the fall of q tree, on the i4th ult.-- The deceased was employed by Col Samuel
 Robinson, who was with him at the time the
 fatal accident took place.. It appears that they mad cut down tree which lodged on the
 branches ofanother; and after making seye-
 raj attempts to bring it to the ground which proved unsuccessful. and being convinced that It could not be done by any other means than Telling the tree on which it had lodged, they concluded to let it remain till some fu- ture time. Alter having selected a suitable place, and without the most distant thought of danger, they sat down and took dinner. Al. ter dinner, las is usual with n,a0y,) they laid themselves down to rest, within two feet of each other. The Colonel states that he fell asleep, but was soon awakened by the fall of the tree, and immediately saw that the boy was hurt; he raised him up forthwith, and found that lie had departed this life without Il struggle.-N 1T. Ado.
 A few days since in the town of Providence young horse started off with a light wagon, and in the rapidity ofhis flight. broke the ve- hicle, and flung gentleman, who was in it, through watch makers window, to the great damage of watches, clocks, and ieweI- lery.
 GoUernor HonssOn.-The western papers give the Darficulars 0f ar, in f;., nf tl,.