Litchfield enquirer., 1831-09-29

where the murders were begun vet there appears to be DO doubt Ofthe fact, that it was known among the negroes of all the lower counties, that an insurrection would be at tempted in Southampton about the time it actually broke out. The Court. we learn, proceeded in the examination with the ut- most caution. patiently and carefully sitting the prisoners, the evidence, and cross exam ming the witnesses, with the humane deteTm- ination to give the entire benefit Of a fair and impartial trial. The testimony was chiefly derived from boys IS or 16 years Of age, whom they pressed into their service, and whose emplOymentto to hold their horses while they perpetrated their butcheries; and who were consequently spectators to the bloody scenes they enacted. As for the prisoners themselves they protested their innocence to the last, nor could any confession, criminatiOg either himself, OF his fellows, be obtained for any one of them. There were few of them possessing even ordinary intelligence,t ,the mass of them exhibiting extreme dullness and ig- nOrance.
 Riots at Prouidencc.-The Providence Jour nal of Thursday stated that. in an affray the :. evening before, in Olney's lane, between g and o'clock, sailor was shot dead. and four others wounded. The deceased sailor was a Swede by birth, and was one of the crew Of ship New-Jersey, from Canton. Among ths crowd that assembled after the occurrence it 1 was difficult to obtain the particulars which led to this melanchoIly termination. The shots were fired from house occupied by blacks. and before the officers arrived, the fuy- nitu,e ofthree houses was destroyed. About 12 o'clock. large mob had collected, who demolished one house and part of two oih- CTS. The same paper Of yestes day says the town was again thrown into state of alarm on Thursday night, by the re-assembIage of the mob of the night previous. in OIney's lane, to the number of seven or eight hundred. who commenced pulling down the houses Uceupi- ed by blacks. and at l2 o'clock, had sncceed- ed in destroying eight buildings. The First Light Infantry Company were under arms I during part of the night, by order of Cover nor Arnold who with High Sheriff Mumford and his deputies, assisted by the members of the Town Council, succeeded in arres,ing a number of the ringleaders. At 2 o'clock, A. M. the mob had defeated both civil and mili- tary authority; finished their work in Olney's lane. and moved to the head of the Cove, where they had recommenced tearing down houses and destroying furniture. | Ihe Riot at Prorideacs.-The rioters On Friday morning, about o'clock, after com
 pleting the destruction of eight houses occu-
 pied by the blacks in Olney's Lane, marched
 in procession to cluster of buildings at the
 head of the Cove, occupied by the same class Of people. They commenced operations by breaking in the windows, followed by fastening their grappling irons to the frames of the buil- dings. Being much exhausted by five hours
 labor at the place first mentioned, they dus- continued operations at break Ofday; having demolished two houses and considerably ia- jured three others, leaving complimentary
 card that they would resume their visit the first /" fair nighf.'' E The several independent companies of mi-
 litia were called out last night,- by order of
 Governor Arnold, at the request of the Town Council. The soldiery are furnished with
 ball cartridges, and will he held in constant
 readiness for action at any future time. The
 State and Municipal authorities are fully pc. pared to suppress any future attack on person or property by prompt appeal to force.
 They will be supported by the cooperation of every substantial citizen.-Provideace Jour.
 Itisannounced in the Washington Globe, that " Ma
 or Eaton, late Secretary of War; and his wife. left Washington for his residence in Tennessee on the r6,b inst.
 lelioU Fecer in Nep Orleams. .-The New Orleans Courier of the 5th inst. says An individual by tho
 name of Charles Tms, who was brought to the char ity hospital Monday, died on Saturday of,he yellow fever, as was we'll ascertaned by the physician at the pose mortem examination. The same paper adds, We have been told this morning ,ha. numbev of other cases have made their appearance. We hope the report may be unfounded.'' . ,
 Ths late Robbery of the Gay Bonk.--Y Yesterday af I ternoon Wm. Park inson, Carver & Glider, residing at No. IA William street, was arrested, with two (e maIes on suspicion of being concerned in the rol- bery of the City Bank. Several thousand collars were found secreted in the house. Parkinson was committed for trial; but the females were discharged nothing appearing against them warrant suspicion William Parkinson, the brother.in-laa to Smith the Bank robber arrested yesterday with part of the money to-day surrendered up about $27, ,s4 io ca.h and securities, amounting to 300, nore-$l7, ,0OO of the money he had sccreed in an old plane which he had in tool chest in his shop--5eO douboons were among tho money delivered up. Parkinson has had the money concealed the whole the sime in his own place in William street, and has now accounted for about $S5, 5,OOO.-N. Y. Daily Ado. ;.
 ReheJOr the Poles $50OO has been raised bv subscription in New-York, within few days past. for the relief the Poesa and has been already forwarded to Gen. Lafayette.
 It is stated in the Pendleton Messenger. ina, Mr Calhoun has long since declined reelection to ina