Litchfield enquirer., 1831-10-13


 was present, and took the chair. The Treasurer's statement of the funds was presented on the first day. 1t "PpearsNat the receipts of the Society during the past year VI F, from donations, legaces &c 100 es4 d0Iiars-and inc expenditures during the same period sS'Sl2 doll}n. The debt of the Society previously was $556S which is now reduced to e934. The an. nual repqt was read Thursday, and is said 10 have been very long but interesting document. The fol- lowing pf cers were elected for the ensuing year:
 Preqdeat-Hon. John Cotton Smith,
 Vice President-Hon. Stephen Van Rensselaer.
 1SFcpr''ng Secreta,y-Rev. Calvin Chapin.
 PsRdt"iat Comnittee-Hou. Wm. Reed, Rev.Leo- nard Moods, Rev. Elias Cornelius, Hon. Saml Hub bard Fey. Warren Fay, Rev. B. B. Wisner.
 CfresPondi"g Secretary-Rev. E. Cornelius.
 AsessAant Secretaries-Rev. Rufus Anderson, Mir. ZYsasurer-Henry Hill, Esq.
 Afs'tOrs-John TapPan, Charles s.oddard, Esqrs gio and the M;ssiomaries.-The last Connec,- cY@ooserver says-J"st as our paper prepared the press, the following letter from Dr. Butler of Ane Cherokee mission, to his brother Mir. Oliver B. Baer of Norfolk in this State, was handed us for insertion.
 Laryencevae, September 16,h, 1881. @s Last week left my family in comfortable health; i; and with others bound court, arrived at this place on Monday. Yesterday, the l5rh in the morn. 3ng our tr'als commenced and continued sntl midnight, Eve pleas were made in our behaf they were each From one to two hours in length, excepting the first which was perhaps fifteen minutes. Our council was very able, and had the whols of the arguments the side of the State At hatf pasione the jury brought, in verdict of guilty. To-day Judge Clayton sen,enc. ed us all to the peniienary and hard labor for four Y years We leave this place tomorrow morning for MiiledgevilIe. The names of those sentenced are Messrs. Worcester, Wheeler, Tro,t, Gann B. Thomp. son, y. Thompson, Eaton, Deozier, Mayes, Cope iand, aud Butler. ] will make comment. Many oi the people here are our warm friends. We have not yet mocI the appearance of prisoners, shall per a!aps have more when we confined in the penien- she church, the Cherokees, the United States, a"i more than ai for Georgia. have yet had much to support me and do believe shall have enough to car ried to the Supreme Court by writ of error. shall write you occasionally if have the privilege. can write nc more at present. Love to your dear parents ' ELizUR BUTLER. 18th, Monday morning. The Sheriff was hndered % that we could not start Saturdays and we neti- toned him 10 remain here over the Sabbath, which was granted. We expect now to sart in few @en''. % All of us are in good health, and mostly in good spirits. number of petitions the way io the Governor for our reprieve; some have good many names attached 10 them, and some from n- dSid"a's Judge Clayton has himself requested ,he Governor to release us believe the petitions are generally on condition that will remove oursfam- lies from the charter Mir. Worcester and myse!fcan- not accept a conditional reprieve.
 Some Ofour friends here wish us to test the laws- ore than haii the principal men of this place warm friends. Some 0 the most nfue nal men of the mortified the decision of the court and feel that the state greatly disgraced cannot write ana receive letters when |" the pententisy by their being inspected.
 when confined go far as the regulations of the peni- ~ten,ary will admit We have many friends who are ready o grant us any assistance, and these friends some ot the first people in Georgia.
 The Augusta tGeo.) Chronicle of late date con tains this paragraph:-
 "Ths mornings mail brings us the following ne W, from MiedgevilIe: nine of the missionaries have been pardOmed by the Governor, giving assurance that they would not again violate the laws. Two o the missionaries, Worcester and Buffer, refusing to give such pledges of future good behaviour, mitted to the Pe"itenti"ry. MT. Worcester has app ed io the Supreme Court"
 The following paragraph we clipped from west ern country paper. Whether there is any foundation for the statement we have no means of ascertainng ! The Kentucky Reporter of later date says nothing Na,out it.
 Ihomas ChitOn.-Ii now appears that Chiffon il SAes ted 10 Congress as will be seen by the following asAitle from the St. Louis Times. "The question o Md Chilions election stands as follows; in the whole dsthi.the has majority of 75 votes over his mpet Stor, &E Hawes. In the Township of Breckenridge hs%eAs, the judges of the election were not sw0r' i all Ater the election. This township gave to Mr Ci loh majority; bat in consequence Of the inior trAlily, eheris of the district struck them out thu leaving q A1r. H. majority 0f g votes Mr. Ch'ito will proceed to Washington and claim his seat, an ahere is no doubt that it will be allowed him."
 4 neV candidate John Quincy Adams, late Pre- sident of ihs United States, a Represeniativ elect to Congress, has been nominated by Conven ton Of Anii-masons in Boston a candidate for th office of Governor of Massachusetts. Hon. Thoma l.. Winthrop was nominated for Lieut.. Governor The Convention was held on Tuesday of last weeI We have seen no indications in the papers wheths Alr. AdamS would accept not, but do hope. for h E. own reputation, that he will not become candida for every petty office which the partialiy of his O friends may think him qualified to iIl. Let him n give his enemies reason to assert that the love of hce" is his predomina.ing passion.
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