Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1832-08-16

our domestic industry, and led to the final
destruction ofall that the veto has been APP
piled to the Bank of the United States. our
only reliance for a sound and uniform currrn-
cy that the Senate has been violently attack
ed Cor the exercise of a clear, constitutional
power; that the House Of Representatives
has been unnecessarily assailed; and that the
President has promulgated a rule Of action
for those who have taken the oath to support
the Constitution of the United States thai
must, if there he practical conformity 10 it,
introduce general notification, and end in alb
solute subversion of she Government. ...
APPEARANCE OF NETWORK.
In time of terror like the present, when
all minds are wrapt in one all-absorbng
thought, little can be said that will prove in
teresting, besides that which concerns the
topic upon which every mind dEels.
These are truly fearful times, and they win
long be remembered. War and famine have
done their work; and the angel Of death
- touching with one wing the sunrise and
with the other the sunset" throws baIeful
shadow over the world The course Of the
pestilence has been hitherto marked with
fearful devastation and the vain hopes Of
safety, fondly INDUCED, have been swept
away like the dust Of the desert.
Mild as it is in our own land, compared to
its progress in other nations, it has changed
the aspect of things into hut sad rescm-
blance 10 former times. The once crowded
streets Of the city are utterly deserted. Blu
siness is stopped. Nothing is spoken Of moth
Ing thought Of but the disease and the num-
Der of its victims.
1t is computed that upwards of seventy
thousand Of the active and eDterprising class
1F osa ard rfi
have gone away aud the absence of such an
immense number, has cast an appearance Of
desolation over the whole city. One who
had visited it two months since in the full
tide Of its prosperity. would hardly recognise
it in its present state. At MONDAY, indeed.
the difference is not SO evident. People still
hurry about. though in greatly diminished
numbers. But it is in the night. that the con-
trast between the present, and the appearance
Of the city few months since, is very strl-
king. The stores, at other times so full of
active life, are mostly closed before shutdown !;
and the city wears the appearance Of deser-
ton long before the usual time for stopping
business. The passengers along the streets
are few, and hardly wheel is heard to give
token of activity, where once the din was
astounding. Broadway, in the evening, usn'
ally the seat OF gaiety, and filed with crowds
of busy votaries of fashion aud pleasure. is
now almost asli!eless as the tabled city Of 81
lence of the eastern tales. Here and there
at long distances, you meet single passengers,
fitting by like spectres. Scarcely a light is
to be seen after ten o'clock. save The glimmer-
ing Of the city lamps, or the light issuing from
the dens Of corruption and wretchedness,
which es en- pestilcnce is unable to close. and
whence death will be measured out until the
cold hand of the grave shall press upon the
wretched inmates. From almost every street
issues hearse or a bier, Fastening on TO de-
post its loathsome load of death into the ex-
cayation hastily made to receive and conceal
it from sight. Towards the upper ID of the
city the number of these dismal spectacles in
crease on the way to the grave yards. The
only beings accompanying the bodies are the
bearers. and perhaps one or two persons hur-
rying on to assist in the sad work of deposit
ing the bodies Of friends or relations. The
grave yards, particularly the large ones, are
openat alltimes of the night; and hearse at
ter hearse Is hastily driven up and relieved Of
its load. A relative perhaps may muripur a
prayer. and stiae rising sigh, and then leave
the body Of a friend but yesterday all life and
animation--now colder than the clay that
covers him--tO the feast Of the earth-worm.
The poor and the rich are alike hurried away
TO the dark grave, and with equal ceremony.
. SKIS Badgers Messenger.
PoRr Az PRINcE-C Conf agration. Papers
received in New-York from Port au Prince,
state that this place had been devastated by
a most extensive c0nfagration, which COM
menced on the 8th. On that day the fire
broke out in a house in ruins, situated oppo-
site to the barracks Of the Presidents Guard,
aud extended to the sea-shOre. consuming on
its passage every thing it epconntered--,he
wind was high. and blew from the east, north
east and north. The ravages made by the
flames exceed those of the 18th August, 1890,
and l6th December, 1822. together. The
houses in sixteen entire streets were on fire,
those 10 fourteen are wholly destroyed, and
shose in the two Others are very nearly So
Notwithstanding it was Sunday, and the
country people for ten miles round were gen
orally in the tOwu--n0twiihstanding the mil.
itary corps Of Port au Prince had just para
ded before the fire commenced, all their eff
forts to stop it proved Intellectual, and L only
ceased in consequence Of having nothing to
consume. The water in the fountains had
been stopped Tor some unknown cause. More
than thousand people are without shelter
and the place is said 10 have the appearance
Of town taken by assault, in which the com