Litchfield enquirer., 1835-07-30


 make one exiract-wiai relates the removal oT the Sheriff of this cOu"ty-taking occasion to inquire whether the new Sheriff has yet appOinied Deputy for this iowa other than the importaOn from Wash ingtOni whether "demOcrat'' of this town has not yet been discovered who is competent to dis charge the duties of the apponiment ..
 " For the first time in the annals of Connecticut, a Sherh was removed, without cause, from his office. We know Ofn removal at all, hut on political grounds there never was one. Wheh an attempt was made in l826, 10 remove Sheriff for gross derelieOn of duiy
 entirely 1ailed, and none bOieterOOs tn hs defence, than the member from Sharon. But the ta- bles had now turned and fnd this same gentleman sacrificing the Of one of his political friends wilI- out shame or rem1rse. Attempts were made to re- moderate being alarmed at such high-handed meas ures." aN} Fa#
 '.The sheriifs hy the Constitution. are ,o hold their offices three years, unless removed. The cause of removal IS not specified but ia ahundany evident, that the iramers of that instrument never conceived possible that Legislature would on political grOunds merelys To suppose otherwise, is to make mere childrens play ofihe whole, and rem der entirely imperative the provision Sheriffa un- der the old charter, had held their offices for three years, and had not been removed for opi"io.s sake and of the importance of stability in that office, qnestionably intended to give permanency to the es- tab'iShed nsage and secure that important officer from the too sudden fluctuations Of party But that Con- sliiuinn, in it's spirit least, has received wound fatal example has beea set an example, which bad men will always lay hold of, and which exposes this important county officer to the willy intrgues of com peers aud aspirants. We were more surprised at this attack, because tt headed and pressed on by the L'chhed County section of the parry faction , which laid claim i0 more independence and c.ndor but in the end showed itself capable of all the low n trigHe and baseness of the regency. Not whi, be- hind in moral iurpiude, they played their base in style quite equal to the AHO. It is frue they occa- sionalIy dverged upon subec, of minor impor- iance yet tn the main, were quite as radical as the most thorongh-gOiDg Jacksonian could wish. We hope the tergiversatons of this Jun,o, will he thor oughy exposed lo their constituents, and then we be- 'ieve they will think with that their only mer, consists ID snniRg agans more light and knowledge'
 More prescription !-In these days, SO rife with DO. lical prescription, is is common and almost every day occurrence to record the removal of some worthy man from office to make room for hungry partizan few days ago Mir. John Beach, of New Haven was removed from the office of County Court Clerk by the "partizan Judges" thereof and crawling young de- magogue Ia lawyer from the upper part Of the county) appointed in his place. And we now learn that the first act of the County Court of Hartford county at its session last week, was to remove Mr. Grswold and appoint young lawyer, Philo A. Goodwin, in his place. Iris thus with the Jackson party--they have multitude ofyonng lawyers growing up, who, for the want perhaps of nIen,s and requirements to succeed at their bnsness be provided with good fat offices to gain their bread. We have no particular objection tine lawyers having fair propor,ion-bu, whenever vacancy occurs. notwithstanding their un- ceasing vociferaon abou, equal rights, the cop.non Peore the dear people, they are step in. claim t as reward for political services, and carry of tho prize.
 .EasNfse .nnP n.s: have queer way ot administering justice to culprits which, though contrary to law, always be very much deprecated. Such case not long since occur red at Matches, and more recently Mobile, where though the law was ou,rnged public opinion was 60 much n favor of the outrage that the perpetrators were not harmed. nor even m attempt made do it. But the outrage of which accoun, is given below is of such horrible that we should imagine the per. petrators must at least undergo atrial. In addition o this account another paper states that the original cause Of the difficulty that the people of Vicksburg denied 10 the gamblers ie right participate in the festivities of the 4'h of Juy. It s further stated ,ha, Dr. Bodley received eleven shots tn his body.
 Escn fhs Loaisvihle fky) Adusrtiser. Jsly IT.
 We have just learned the particulars of ahe horri bie affair reported by of the steamoats yeserday !t appears that some persons had kept gambliag house in Vicksburg for some time, aad as usual iS emiaf essaD'snmente Lad tbetr psDpa and their de- coys employed. inyeiglieg inexperienced young nen into tue Lioas dea, where they invariably Aeec- ed of all they possessed. and frequently i treated y the conductors. The inhabtanss, determined 10 abnte the nuisance, had several meetings, and given notice repeatedly 10 the offenders qois tho city by certain Nme or suffer the cOBsequenceS 0f outraged cOus- muniiy. Tho day at length arrived when the commt- waited them and told them that their passage was paid for on board sieamboat and quit they uus They positively refsed-he committee retired 10 de. beraie and again returned hut the house closed. and wmsn A.wAsaA shots fred from the windows, one of which struck Dr. Bodey ihe ehairmaa of the committee and caused his immediate death. Another gentleman oi responsibility severely wounded, and the rest of the bullets passed through the hats of the other bers of the committee. .s..us. s s-r s-
 The tows's people immediately assembled. broke open the house, seized 6Se men, the only ipmates, dragged them to the public square and HANGED them insianter :! They posted seniTies, and gave notice that any person who approached them for twenty four hours would he served likewise. All the money, before the suspended bodies, and the committee paid Il away 10 al who could prove they had lost money the hoHse. About twelve fifteen persons in con. necon with the house started for this city in haste avoid similar fate. These the particulars as we have heard shem-we shall make no comments upon so dreadful m occurrence, hoping the scconut has been exaggerated. a .agfga T~zas. ssse tt..t
 Since the above was in type we have heard that Doctor BOdey was mordered iD the gaming house, af table, which the original cause of this execution of summary jusiice of Lynch law ia called. The persons executed were Mir. North, who kept a iavera Dnich Bill. his barkeeper, Mr. Samuel Smith, Mr. Cullum, and Ar. Mccall. r.s