Litchfield enquirer., 1833-05-09

work of female incendiary. Some misun- drrstaDding having taken place between the person suspected and one of the drivers, and she was heard to say last night, that she would have rcvenge-and in less than two hours from this declaration, the stables were in ruins.
 There was no want of water, but the fire men could not approach near the fire in front, in conseuuence of the extreme heat |: the whole, burning, as an old fireman said this morning, like heap of dry shavlngs. The city was illuminated, and at one period it was so light in the second ward, that newspaper could have been read. A gentleman from Newark, informs us that it was distinctly seen at that place.
 The N. Y. American of Wednesday even- ing says :-The fire is supposed and asserted by many to have been the work of incendia- ries-it can indeed, it is said,- be proved to be so. In the upper part of the stables, six or seven men were sleeping, who all with great difficulty saved their lives-some by jumping from the window about IT feet high, but no material damage was done i: one col ored man got his face dreadfulIy cut in de- scending. We understand Kipp & Brown are not insured at all-their loss IS very great {: carriages were burnt which cost them $500 each, and S5 horses, worth upon an average from $8O to S1OO each. Out of the 4l hors- es, only were taken out alive, 2 of which are since dead.
 The confagration spread very rapidly. At the back of Kipp & Browns stables was a ware house, occupied as store room for ar ticles of combustible nature, by MT. John c. Morrison, chemist, which it is supposed contributed materially to spreading the fre Nearly all the buildings in the rear were wooden, and in another building, immediate ly at the back, owned by Kipp & Brown, were 700 or 800 bundles of straw.
 North and South.-Southern gentlemen of all parties, are speaking ofYankee enterprise. Our roadsare better. Our stages are better. Our population is thrftier and more prosper ous. We are ahead of them, they grant in all that contributes to national power and na- tionaI wealth. Of course they will not give us their chvaIry," and their " love of lber- ty," and their "couragc,"-and, of course, they abuse us little at times, to pay for the compliments they grant us. Now l believe the public opinion of all enlightened men is, that the prosperity of the northern States is chiefly owing to their exemption from the vi- ces of slavery. Surely we are not more in- telligent, more inventive, or have more men Ol tnaL lar reaching power CaIleu ulnu' tnan they have They will not grant that! Oh no. And will do the intelligent part of tle population the justice to say, that there is not better or nober body of men, think, on earth, than their intelligent men are. We have no stronger minds. We have no mere inven- tive genius, but our invention is active. Tteirs is dormant. Seeing for ourselves, and work ing for ourselves, and having no slaves, thank God, to work for us, intellect is ever on the stretch. If the north was afflicted with their population, it would be the most miserable country on earth. We should starve as well as freeze. I say then, northern prosperity and activity is to be accounted for only on the principle, that men must there think and work for themselves, and in doing this. call into ex- ercise all their faculties, mental and physical; i; while at the south. the white population only does the thinking, and frltters away its ener- gies in amusements, mad politics, and that stuff called choating. We think and work.- They think-and hence the people that do two things will be more prosperous than the people who do but one, prosperity being de- pendent chiefly upon labor.-fortland Adver.