Litchfield enquirer., 1833-09-19

1 Afteen miles from its mouth. They seisied
 on an oak opening. and raised fine crops of
 wheat. They had been there year or more
 before it was known in Detroit, and the fact
 was regarded as a remarkable instance of eu-
 ierprise and hardihoOd. The next settlement
 was formed at Pontiac and its neighbOrhoOd. From this period, the tide OfemigratiOn has steadily increased from year to year. The
 inhabitants of Detroit, with a public spirit
 highly t0 their credit, explored the country,
 and caused all its advantages to be published in the eastern papers. For some time it ap-
 Peared up hill work. many visited the country.
 who from slight and partial view of it, or
 from ignorance or prejudice. reformed with unfaVOrable reports, which to some extent, | retarded for a time, its settlement; and after this, the ravages of a malignant epidemic, which for several years afflicted Detroit and it's neighborhood, induced wide spread re- port that the country was unhealthy. The inhabitants of Detroit, with zea! that cam not be too highly commended, and forecast
 which was tO be expected from a community, which for inteIligencr, is rarely eqnalIed,, struggled 10 remove those unfavOrable itn-~. pressions. They took upon themselves the labor and expense of acting as pilots and pi-- oneers to emigrants, and assisted them wiilF l information, advice, and often with money | and other facilities. We could name many, of the old citizens of Detroit. who were dis~, tinsushed for their zealous elfoats in this way, One who should now visit the interior and be- hold a religious and populous country who should behold the steamboats and stages iiiI-' cd with enigrasts, crow ding into the country and pushing on to the very shores of Lake Michigan, could hardly realize the care and 1 nursing expended on the sickiy and tende. IbNta mt chi hioh hoc branches overshadow the land. The language
 of eur motto, t' Fdndem Fit Surculus Arbor," though adopted long before oar prosperous and paImy state, seems like the prophetic truth ofinspiration. Michigan may he truly l said to be in the very spring tide of her pros perity. 1t is believed there has been. within the present season, an increase of population from abroad of near 10000, besides the nat, 1 ural increase. The quantity of produce, and particularly of wheat, raised this season, is 1 said to have exceeded, to large extent, that of any former year. Health, that highest blessing, without which all else is valuelrss, ! has been enjoyed to d degree that calls foy- our special gratitude.
 | Hon. Ed,0drd Everett-The New England l Magazine for September, contains an inter- esting biographical sketch of our distinguish
 ed citizen. Edward Everett. accompanied by
 a thographic portrait.
 MT. Everett was born in 1794, at Dorches-
 ter. and is therefore still on the sunny side of 1 forty. At the age of thirteen he became ss
 member of Harvard University. During his
 college life ne was distinguished by his schol-
 arship. After graduation he studied thenlo-
 gy. aud at nineteen years or age succeeded the
 Rev. J. $. Buckminster in the pastoral care
 of the Brattle Street Church in this city.- I Before he reached the age of ttrenty one, iu
 1915, he was inauguratcd Elliott Professor of
 Greek at Cambridge, with leave to travel in Europe. ASailing himself ofthis permission, 1 he spent the following four years and a half 1 in visiting the most interesting parts of the old world. Most of the time was passed in Ger l man and other celebrated Universities. in l studies preparatory to his future splendid ef-.
 forts as profess 'r: hut he found leisure en-
 ough to form acquaintances with the most dis tinguished men of letters wherever he went so that, after travels which few Amercan scholars have eqnalled in extent, he returned with q reputation that no A mprican hrfurc him had. ever enjoyed. and with an alfinence of learning that has since shed sp!endor on our nationai character.
 Soon after his return, the editorship of the North American Review was added to his professional labors, and furnished him wiih an opportunity which he most zealously im- pTONeu, Ot PjactOR our naIlOnhI rPp0tatlOn on its proper footing abroad. In l8e4. he was elected to Congress by the people nf Middle sex district, and in accepting the offered pnlt- ical distinction, vacated, not by his swn wish. es, but by the decision of the proper judges. his professorshp. In Congress he has always
 maintained high reputation and great de- gree of influence. His profound scholarship |, his powers of oratory, his Familiarity with the practicalpart ofhis duty. and his indefatigable industry, have been alike conspicuous. Boston Mercantile Journal. | From the Ashta6uia (Ohio) Sentinel, Sept. 7.
 Trial 0f Ga, dner.-Ehe trial Ira West Gardiner, indictment for the murder of his sie-iaughier, Maria BueI, commenced at Warren. in the Supreme Court, Judges Wright and Lane presiding. on Taes- day, 27ih ut and crminacd on "Wednesday evening, al half past 8 o'clock. This murder, il will be recol- lected, committed about year since, under cr- cumstances o peculiar arocity. Forty-two witness es summoned--nDe ihe part of the prosec0- ton. From the evidence given, the fact o the prs- oner's guilt placed beyond doubt and the plea Of insanity was ably but intellectually presented y his counsel. The Jury ailer atsence nf two hours, iarned with verdict of gully e mWder az the first degree"
 On Friday morning, the prisoner brought to tho bar; when the sentence of the lawswas pronounced upon hinn, in eloquent and impressive manaer, hy Judge Wright which condemned him to be executed on Friday, the 4,h day of October next. ga
 Manual LGbor.-A1r. Badger, late editor ofthe New
 York Weekly Messenger, obliged to leave his employ neHi account of not having sufficient health