Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1832-08-30

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who stabbed Though not mostaIly, two men
in the neighbOrhood Of Prince-street, about
two years since, and then made his escape to
Europe.-N. Y. Mercantile AdUer.
From the Utica Observer. tif
We last week announced the presence OF
the Cholera in our city and it is now our
painful duty to record the death of a number
Of our respectable inhabitants. who have fall
en- victims to this destroying pestilence. Its
commencement here was characterised by an
unusual malignancy /; for number Of days
scarce an individual attacked recovered and
This circumstances tended greatly to increase
the excitement, which has caused thousands
Of our Inhabitants to abandon their homes
and fee in the utmost dismay for safety into
the country! Never have we witnessedsuct
n melancholy scene of CONSERVATION as has
been exhibited in our city for the last few
days ]; a few brave men have strove 10 vain to
resist the general panic and are devoting
themselves with ipdcfatigable zeal and resolu-
ton to mitigate the caiamities of the disease.
We are not in temper Of mind to indulge in
severity Of censure, but we has e been panied at
the cOwardly conduct Of men; to whom the
public had RICH: to look for examples Ofre-
solution and self devotion. Instead of remain
ingat their posts as they were required TO do
by every obligation of duty and feeling Of
Christian philanthrophy, administering con-
ISOLATION to the poor, the sick and the dying
acting the noble part Of stgood Saniaritans"
they "ingioriously fe.l,' and contributed
by their example To swell the aggregate Of
fear aud misery. We have made these re-
marks /" more 10 sorrow than in anger :" but
we could not have abstained from the express
sion Of our feelings without in our own esti-
-. So T.sek Il
discharge of duty. Our remarks will by no
means apply to all we have seen Number
Of our most respectable fellow -citizeRs come
forward with alaerity in this trying crisis and
perform their duty With the greatest seIfpos-
session.
A Dr.. Chapman Of Buffalo, has been pros
ecuted for neglecting to report case of Chol
era. The law says, that any physician who
refuses or Deglects to report any case Of ma
lignant or yellow fever, or other in fictitious or
pestilential disease, shall he considered guilty,
&c. The counsel for the defendant contend-
ed that the Cholera was neither infectious
nor pestiIential, and the Court concurred-sO
the prosecution was abandoned. There is
nothing ike legal wisdom, after all. This
decision OF New York Justice puts the
matter at rest.-Middleser Gaz.
Another Melancholy Taie.--We have to re-
count another Of the many scenes of destruc-
ton caused in this city, by the pestilence
which has so long ragged among Us. An in-
dustrious, temperate man, named Michael
Kearney, who was employed in a mercantile
house in the lower part OF the city. consigned
his wife and brother to the grave on Thnrs-
day last. They had been seized with the
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they lay dead within his doors. On Friday
he was about his ordinary business; on Sat
urday morning Mt an early hour be was seized
by the disease, and before night he was laid
in the earth in which but two days before be
Deposited The remains Of his wife, and Of his
brother! He left four unprotected children,
one Of whom was taken III on Sunday night,
and was buried with his parents yesterday |!
The remaining three are taken by an acquain-
lance Of their fathers, who has also written
for their uncle who resides in another part Of
the Union.-N. Y. Courier. a-a
+ Complaints are made in some Of the n. Y.
papers in consequence of several clergyman
having left the city, 10 order, il is aaid, TO avoid
the Cholera. Adverting to such, the jour
nal of Commerce says :-" Where physicians
and editors, and merchants, and mechanics,
ana IaueS can Stays therc caH usH'steTS VI
the Gospel stay, if not already the subjects
of disease, and there they ought 10 stay, when
wide and almost unexampled field ofuse-
falness, as Mt present in this city, j. opened
before them. IL they mean to eyincc \ parti-
Gle Of the zeal Of their Master" We believe
that all the Philadelphia clergy are at their
posts. All the editors are, with one exeep-
ton, the senior Of the brotherhood. (Mr.
Walsh) whose health is very feeble. Indeed
we are told. that he could not have remained
in the city but at the imminent peril OF his
Ilifc.--P philadelphia Inqsirer.
There 10 much truth as well as honest feel
ing in the following passage, which we sx-
tract from a speech recently delivered by Mr..
Senator SPRAeUE, at the dinner given 70 hima
self and Mr.. HoLMEs, at Portland
/ 1.-THE people are always generous, always
| confding. Ii electing Andrew Jackson to
Ithe Presidency. they elected an imaginary
bcing--an imaginary patriot. an imagina-
1 ~ sfatesman. A military frenzy put him
where he IL, and the Government now reels
to iis foundation. An attempt 10 made "a
i destroy the best men and the best meas
ures. An attempt Is made to array ons
class of society against another. the poo
against the rich and the rich against the poor
i BY appealing to the most unworthy pre)ndl
|. ees Your greateae men are denounced q: