Litchfield enquirer., 1834-12-04
ERUPTIoN OF MOUNT vEsUvIUs.

ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS.
 A correspondent of Galigneni's. Messenger gives a most distressing account ofan eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which took place at the latter end of August, which produced raVages most awful and astounding. This account states that
 "Upwards of ffteen hundred houses, pala- ces and other buildings, and two thousand five hundred acres of cultivated land, have been destroyed by the 6re. The eruption, which had been previously expected from the drying up of the fountains. surpassed every thing which history has transmitted tO us. The first explosion destroyed the great cone situ- Ated on the top of inc mountain. The abun- dance of inflamed matter produced flashes which darted through the mountains Hanks. A new crater burst open at the top of the xrat cone, and inundated the plain with tor rents of lava. The king and the ministers hastenpd to the seat of the catastrophe. to console the unfortunate victims. The village of St. Felix where they first took reposei had already been abandoned. The lava soon poured down upon this place, and in the course Of an hour, houses, churches and palaces were all destroyed. Four villages, some detached houses, country villas, beautiful groves and gardens, which a few instants hefore present. ed magnificent spectacle, now resembied a seaiOf fire. On the Sd of Sept. nothing but stones and cinders were ejected, and every
 prospect existed of the eruption being soon at
 a close. The palace of the Prince of Attay-
 anna and 5OOacres of his land are utterly de- stroyed.. The cinders fell during an entire night over Naples, and if the lava had taken that direction, there would have been an end to that city"
 Ne,o- YorI: Weekly Messenger. are some things in the history of this paper and in the career of its founder, which we deem worthy of notice. MT. Badger commenced the ZiOn's Herald, in Boston, in 182S' which paper he conducted so successfully, that at the end of three years it had five thousand sun. scribers. He then removed tO thEs city ana aepmnoepcei the Christian Advocate and Jour- nal with which he continued five years, and rilen left it with tsUenty thousand subscribers. Tn August 1881, he began the publication of the, e,5Neekly Messenger, under very favorable auspices. But such long and close application to mental labor had prOstrated his physical powers, and induced disease for which he could obtain no relief either from medical ad- ] vice or change of climate. He then transfer l red the Messenger to the present worthy pro prietor, and bctook himself to a course of manual labor at the prnting-press. This he persevered in fur nine months, when he found himself restored to perfect health. He then resumed the editorial chair of the Messenger, and has conducted it with SO much ability, that it has already obtained sixthousand sub- scrbers and the number is daily increasing. Mr. Badger possesses very handsome com bination of tact and talent for the management of newspaper. His sheet is divided into a. bout dozen distinct portions. Besides the religious, miscellaneous, agriculture, and news 1 departments, the ladies, ministers. parents. ] children, soldiers and sailors, each having a column allotted to them, which renders the Messenger exceedingly interesting.--N. Y. Mirror. THe Seosons---A late western paper has the following noitce of the peculiarities which have marked the seasons of the present year. The description will answer very well for the region of the Middle and Northern States: i've have never known a season in our life that was ever seen and felt. It is either the hottest. or the coldest, or dryest. or wet fest, or earliest. or latest or rainest, or sCOw- fest, or fruitfulist, or barrenist, that ever was heard of. But of all the most remarkable 1 years we remember, we think the present most remarkably remarkable. First comes frost in May that turns all the young leaves red and brown as if 'twere October |; kills all the fruit. and destroys nearly every thing else. Then the locusts desolate the country. Then drought follows that dries up the riv- CTS, burns the corn to death, annihilates the potatoes, and raises the thermometer higher ] than was ever known. This over, comes rain 1 which nearly washes away N. Carolina, and rot up the cotton trees all through the South. Finally, the scene closes by Jack Frost step ping in and chewing up the tobacco crop with | the most cool and icy compOsure."
 Dr. Co1.-A letter from Dr. Cox, publish ed in the N. Y. Evangelist, shows that calum- ] ny and vrulence. outrages and insults. paving stones and brick-bats, have not abated his zeal in the cause of emancipation. He is con soIed and cheered by letters of sympathy from many of the best persons in Europe. He withhoids most of these letters from publica- ton, from an apprehension that they will be abused. He says horns and hoofs make dreadful work with pearls" He affirms that all good men in Europe, all the sound interests of our country, all the pety in earth and heaven. are with God in opposition to the deep and deadly sin of slavery. The follow ing is an extract from his letter:
 {" Is the glory gone of my country? Is our
 freedom a vapor. a spectre of delusion May l noteven 'error of opinion he tolerated where | reason is left free to combat it? Is not one responsible enough for his sentiments, with out being hunted for them with savage vio- lence Besides, is it possible to put the qnes- tion down It is not. There is vitality and