Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1833-03-28

ng a correspondence with the man in the
moon, as of communication with CONT
mental citizen Of the United States. We are
more completely incarcerated than convicts
in a pententiary for they may be enlighten-
ed occasionally with news Of an earthquake,
an avalanche, a tornado, or u conAagration.-
But for US THE federal palace, with its in
mates in kitchen and hall, may sink in con-
vulsiOn of the earth-the Rocky Mountains
may slide from their bases into the sea Of Cal
ifornia-the new custom house at Charles
ton, alias Fort Pinckney, may he swept away
in a hurricane-and all the forests Of Ten
nessee become the prey ofincendiaries, with
out our being whit the wiser until the APP
Proclamation Of dog days. Here we are, stuck
ImmOveably, like flies in amber, or democrats
in Office
a Thrilling misunderstanding during
last Friday night, few men in Niagara, U.
c. perceived that boat was in the river
adrift. They Immediately took another boa,
and went after it. They soon, with both
boats, became inextricably fastened in by the
ice, which was floating down the river in
large quantities. They were carried into the
eddy, about half mile from Fort Niagara.
The wind at this time was very high and the
cold excessive; the waves running eight or
ten feet high, dashing and jambing the ice
with great force.
AT Z o'clock in the morning, it was perceiv-
ed that these men must inevitably perish,
from the severity If the cold, unless speedily
delivered froE1 their perilOus situation-fOr
they had toiled 10 endeavoring to effect their
way through the ice, until their energies were
entirely exhausted, and they were chilled past
the free use of their limbs.
| At this juncture, a boat was despatched
from Fort Niagara, with number of soldiers,
to assist them. In short time, however,
it was discovered by those who gazed from
the shore with intense anxiety, that this last
boat was itself 10 more im,ninently danger
Gus condition than the other; and the crews
Of both must, even if the boats were not
crushed and sunk by the furious action Of the
ice, soon freeze to death. For two or three
hours, the painfully excited spectators were
vainly endeavoriDg to devise schemes for their
delverance.
Before yielding then up to inevitable death.
it was determined to make one more attempt
to save them; accordingly some Of the off
GERS. soldiers. and citizens took boards, and
Notwithstanding the uncertain support Of the
dashing ice, laid them from cake to cake,
and by having persons stationed along the
line. replaced and held the boards in Their
places. Two complete lines were thus laid,
one in each boat, and the almost frozen
crews were lifted out, one by one, and safely
conducted to the shore by their magnanimous
deliverers.
The boat was from the Fort shours. Some
Of the men were SO frozen that they could
have existed but little longer. Some of the
intrepid men who went to their rescue, fell in
between the ice cakes several times, SO that
their clothes became like sheets of ice. All,
however, were safely landed much to the re-
lief of the almost agonizing spectators. We
understand that all the men who were out.
were mure or less frozen. There were MANY
persons who exertpd themselves to the Ut
most, whose names we have not heard men
toned. Sergeant Robinson may be named
as the Hrst and foremost in this almost unpar.
aeled act Of deliverance. 1t was after ten
O'Clock when the last man landed.
Rochester Adv. It'll inst.
Stealing ones own Property. Felony.-At
Manchester (England) Richard Harris, re-
spectacle looking man, was con. icted Of ste al
ing box from the common carrier. In the
course Of the investigation it was proved that
the box was his own, and that on given
day the prisoner called at the Office to ask if
a box he expected from Birmingham had ar
rived. Being answered in the affirmative,
and referred TO the warehouse room to look
for it. he said it was there, and he would re-.
turn 10 day or two, pay the carriage, and
take it away. He accordingly returned in a
few days, rendered the yment Of the costs,
and asked for the box, which could not be
found any where. Hereupon Harris .evinced
much anger, and declared he would prosecute
for the value Of the box. Upon comparing
circumstances, suspicion was excited that he
had himself taken off the box ; and upon a
search warrant being granted, it was accord.
ingly found at the lodgings Of Harris. These
facts being established, the Jury asked ''wheth.
er it was felOay for man to steal his own
goods" Being answered 10 the affirmative, the
Jury found Harris guilty Immediately
he was sentenced to IL years transportation
Eruption Of Mount Etna-We have, for
several weeks past, had vague rumols of an
awful eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily, but
have had nothing authentic on the subject
The following extract from letter from Mes.
sina. received by respectable Commercial
House ia this City, may be relied on as far as
it goes: we wish that the writer had entered
more into the details Of this phenomenon. II
would be almost worth the trouble of vow
age across the Atlantic, 70 see such a volca-
no as Etna in full blast.
. al have 10 advise you, that one of the most
awful sruptions Of Mount Etna. for many
years, is at this moment taking place; three