Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-02


 child, but had proceeded only short distance. when he felt himself sinking, and shook them offtO die, (oh inhuman } when he succeeded with great difficulty in reaching the upland, having merely strength left to crawl to the nearest house.
 We understand that the Delaware Break water will have to be raised six feet higher than was anticipated, before they will again venture to erect buildings on it.-.GeOrgetOOn Del. LHminGry, ef 2Oth iHst.
 Escape gfa Mrderer !-Wadkins, who was confa- ed D the jail OfSaTalOga CO.,, under sentence of death for the murder of Mr. Case. escaped Thursday last, by asSaulling the keeper he brought his evening meal. He has not yet been resaken but many citi- zens are engaged in his pursuit. He sentenced to be hung on the ITth January.--AfbGny ZrgGs
 TRc Murderer e-taken.-The Schenectady Whig gives the following account of the man ner of the escape and re-capture of Wadkins, who fled from Saratoga jail on Thursday night last :-He had been furnished bya per- son who for short time was confined in the same room with him. with fIe, by the help of which he had freed himself from his irons. He then sent down to request the jallor to come up and read to him, and when the jail- or, (who is an aged and quite a feeble man,) came into his cell, he seized him, and holding billet of " ood over his head threatened him with instant death he did not deliver up the keys and remain silent. The .jailor being thus within the power of the villain, did as he was required. when Watkins walked out, locked the jailor in, and decamped. He then went to the barn of MT. SimOns, about three miles northeast of Ballston, where he secret ed himself until Saturday night, when he stole one of Mir. S.'s horses, and went back through the village to the house of a cOlored man, d. and fnh hp aG. sistance of the occupant and another negro who was there to enable him to escape.- These persons, underpretence Oftaking meas ures to assist him, went ont and obtained the aid of a white man, came back and secured the villain, andalodged .him in jail on Sunday morning.
 Distressing Accident.-Fiue Boys Drocned. -One of the most distressing accidents that we have recorded for a long time, took place on Saturday at P. NJ. Five boys were skating on what is called Stuyvesant's Mead ows, between the Bowcry and tie Dry Dock, when one of the lads frll through the ice, the others went io his assistance, when they all got in together. Their struggles and cries were heard by colored hoy. who went to their relief. and succeeded in getting out one alive; but in attempting to get out the others he was pulled in himself, and fell a sacrifice to his noble efforts in the cause of humanity he was pulled in by the struggling lads. and with them sunk in death. Tine lad that was saved ia son of Frederick A. Tallmadge, Esq. i was SO nearly benumbed and exhausted that he with difficulty reached neighboring house. Two of the lads. brothers. were found fast clnched to each other; from which it is sup posed that the one in his exertiOns to save the other was drawn under. They were lads of about fifteen years and under. The spot is one where they Areruuning new streets, which forms pond. and Is about fifteen feet deep. The na mes of the four white lads are. TheO- dore and Jacob, sons of Walter Durbrow Augustus, son of Caleb Valentine; and Wilt fam, only son of Wan. HarselI.-N. y. Adr. From Jamaica.-We are in possession of a file of the Kingston Commercial Advertiser tO the l4th of November. The meteoric show CT that was observed all over this country, is thus noticed in the paper alluded to :-" Ear ly yesterday morning most beautiful pheno- menon was visible in the heavens, in the shape of mcteors successively bursting from the ze- nth to fifteen degrees of the horizon. The corruscatiOns were continual, and the nehul@ formed by them lasted for several seconds, assuming the appearanee of the tail of sky rocket. They also reminded us the activi- ty of the Aurora BOrealis, or light shoals of dolphins sporting and minntely rising from the ocean. One meteor was uncOmrnOnly large, and at one time appeared stationary.- Perhaps sight so magnificent may not again happen for many years."
 Suic;de.-We are distressed tU state the melancholy report. which reached us yester- day from Amelia county, that Thomas H. Dunn, esq. of Petersburg, late from Botetout county, has shot himself. It is said, that he had previously retired into wood, and tied his horse to sapling--and that it was some days hefnre his body was found and his death ascertained. Mr. D. was once member of the bar, and gentleman of 6ne talents.
 Richmond Eng.
 The Petersburg Intelligencer adds. strange and unaccOuntable as it is. there remains no doubt of his having fallen by his own hands. It appears that he had left the main road a few hundred yards. and after carefully tying Ais horse in the woods, discharged the contents of pistol through his head. He was found with another loaded pistol. and two phials of laudannm about his person. The large sum of money found in his pocket. and the elothcs and valuable papess in his saddle-bags, forbid the suspicion of his having been murdered. al- though nothing has been discovered to fur nish the cause ofthis awful deed. For few years past. Mr. Dunn has been an ardent pro-