Litchfield enquirer., 1831-10-06

portion 0f the military were despatcheu as and the Sheriff with the first then proceeded down the road to protect the buildings. the mob partly separating on each side. and partly retiring before them.
 Alter elfecting passage over tho adjacent | bridge, amidst shouts and insults, the mob | closed in their rear, separating them from the main body, and threw stones SO unremittingly, | that many of the soldiers were severely | wounded. An order was now distinctly to | be heard directing the mob to leave the street, | or it would become necessary to fire upon l them. Renewed discharges of stones were 1 the only result. Thus assailed, they were now compelled to turn and face the rioters, and, as a last resort, it having become absO- Iutely necessary for the preservation of the lives of those under arms, orders were at length given to fire, which were Obeyed. In a few minutes afterwards the mob dispersed and quiet was again restored.
 The names of the killed-and of the wound ed, so far as ascertained, though it is proba- ble more of the latter may be dlscOVered'- are:
 Kizled.-Cyrus B. Guile, of Mansfield, (Mass.) aged IS; Walter Lawrence, of this towu; s. A. Whittemore, of Leicester, l (Mass. J Allen Cory, mariner. A young
 man from Pawtucket, about 18 years old, name unknown, was mortally wounded. l Wounded.-Daniel Branch, MT. Davis, Jer- emiah Bunney. and Josiah l.. Luther.
 | A town meeting was held on Sunday at l which the numbers were SO great that the Town House could not contain them, and an adjournment was had to the Court House Parade. John Martin and John Whipple. Esurs., addressed the meeting, ,and after detail ing some of the outrages and commenting. as we'll indeed they might, the forbearance and fortitude of the militia, passed resolutions au-
 thorizing, among other things, the Town Council to offer rewards for the detection of the chief rioters, and of the person or persons l who killed the sailor on "Wednesday night. The Providence Journal of Tuesday says: ! The peace of the town is at length restored, l through the energetic measures of the civil and military authorities of the town and state. The measures necessarily adopted have prov ed fatal to several of our fellow citizens, hut they established the supremacy of lawful au- thority over the licentious, brutal, lawless viz olence of an infuriated mob. We have. even at the sacrifice of life taught a rebellious DOT ton of our community that they owed an al- legiance to the laws which they could not sev- CT. May our community never again be call- ed to witness so deplorabe, 80 melancholy, 1 so disgraceful spectacle. The civil author
 flies deem it necessary to continue nightly,
 an armed patrol for the prevention of disor-
 der, should any symptoms again be exhibited,
 which, however, we rejoice to say, is not at all probable"
 Appearance of q ne,c Island in the Mediterra- nean.-The Messenger des Chambres. con- tains an interesting article, of which the fol- lowing is translation :- Toward II o'clock of the 10th of July, 1 83l, ! Tap nh anHo NE hn Thsresine, going from Trapani to Girgenti,
 in SlcIy, at ruu ursruuro--s ~I~~A oo s,,ilas
 from Cape St.. Mark, perceived, at the dis.
 tance of gun shot, mass of water which a. | rose 60 feet above the level of the sea, and
 presented a circumference ofnearly 400 fath- ] oms--a smoke proceeded from it. exhalng an odour of sulphur. The preceding day, in the Gulf of Trois Fontaines, he had seen great quantity of dead fish and black matter floating on the water, and he heard a noise l like that of thunder, which the Captain attri-
 butes to volcanic eruption. He continued l his voyage to Girgenti; and all the time that
 he was occupied in landing his ship he saw | thick smoke rise necessarily from the same point, before which he arrived on the 16th, on
 his return from Girgenti. A new spectacle
 waS then presented to him-namely, a tract
 of land. of the same circum mference as that of
 the mass of water which he had remarked in
 his first passage. The Island (which we
 shall call CarraO, from the name of him who
 saw it formedj is elevated about l2 feet above
 the surface of the sea it has in the middle
 kind of Plain, and the crater of volcano,
 whence burning lava is seen to proceed during
 the night. The island is bordered by girdle
 of smoke. The sounding all around the Isl-
 and gives depth of lO6 fathoms its latitude
 is 37, N. and longitude 10, 26 from the me- ridian of Paris. Such is the relation of Capt. Carra0 himself, who entered the port of Mar
 seilles the SOth oflast July. The volcano has
 also been seen by several Captains going from
 Malta and TaganrOc to Genoa the Pilots
 have learnt from fisherman, that on the day
 of the eruption of this volcano he had seen a
 brig perish, and also fishing boat his com
 paniOn and that he considered his own es-
 cape miraculous.
 Solemn PrOvidence. -On Tuesday last, Col.
 Robert Ambrose, of this town, son of Ste phen Ambrose, Esq. rode out Of Boston in
 company with another gentleman, over the mill dam, where they met loose horse pur-
 sued by dog. running with great rapidity. at | which their horse became restive and ungOv-
 ernable. The other gentleman leaped from the carriage without sustaining serious injury:
 but Col. Ambrose was thrown from the wag-
 on with such violence as to fracture the skull,
 and otherwise confuse the body, which occa-
 stoned his death in a very short time. He
 has left wife and four children to lament his unexpected exit. Col. Ambrose was S4
 years old. The horse disengaged himself