Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1836-08-04


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meps g Washington, N which be cais hen
menialss" and tells them 10 mind their P's
ana &s-txeR the hours in which they must
-, ana wnen they must 70 20 bed bW says
notmng about how they must vote that Being
.n:e unaerstood. Many Of the presses
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ing, under the circumstances. Amos "a the
mental OF Van Buren,. Van Buren, make
Gen. jackson believehe Il his Uae1Iinl and the
public have considered all the party as me.
mails for years. What Is the harm Of sav.
ing So! It is great deal better to have the
truth, and the Administration tell so little Of
this, that when they do, we ought to give them
due credit. Let Kendall proceed with his ed
flying epistles. They win be useful to the
public hereafter as matters Of history. =. ,. =.
The Globe has an advertisement contain
ing proposals from the Post Office DEPART
ment for carrying an Express Mail. The ex.
press to run from New York to Mobile. ana
be carried thence by steamboat to New o..
leans The time proposed for carving the
mail from here to New Orleans, is six and
half days. This will be expediting the bust
ness very much, TO be sure for it now takes
more than thirteen days. This mail, says
the advertisement. IS 10 convey sonly slips
from newspapers in lieu of exchange papers,
and letters (otter than such IS contain mon
fey,) not exceeding half an ounce in weight,
to be marked Express MAIL" and public
dispatches. .,s,ias ,sss>, st' ,. -s.et .5,.y ..
Hsghacay Robbery and Murder.-A gentle
man who has just come UP the Erie Canal in
forms US that a Mr.. Charles Caldwell, whonn
ne understood to be Of jamestown, Chatanaue
county, was on Friday last shot as he was
travelling ON the Canal towpath in the eve
ming, near, the village of Albion, robbed of
$9OO IN money and his body thrown into the
canal. He however revived sufficiently to
crawl out and make his situation known. as il
was but short distance from house. Mr..
T. was shot in the breast he says he saw his
assailants, that they were two men who APP
peared to be foreigners. When our inform
ant left there We're different opinions whetfs-
er Mr.. c. would survive or not. ~ -
AARON BURR is now about eighty years Of
age. We are told that he is almost entirely
helpless, SO that it is necessary to lift him to
and from his bed. His habits are very filthy
and disgusting. In his former life, he was
neat and particular in. his personal appear
ance, but now it is very difficult to keep him
decent. He has frequent contests with the
irish woman who takes care of him, before
he can be induced to change his linen, His
intellect at times seems to give evidence of
ITS former strength, but frequently indcatesa
complete prostration Of its powers. In short,
ne exhibits, a miserable and melancholy
wreck.-Boston Trans. .5.ss -
The office of the treasurer of Lycornfng
county, was broken open ON the night of the
2lst instant, and robbed of the iron chest,
containing about $1,000 in paper, silver and
gold among the first was $50 note of the
Northumberland bank. The Free Press says
-s'Just as our paper was put to press, the
suspected persons, Samuel Harris and Gil
bert Wood, were brought into town in the Gus
tody of the sheriff. After undergoing an en-
animation, they were committed to prison.
Harris was formerly of this place, but has
been absent for the last three years. He had
returned but a day or two prior to the robbery
Wood is stranger, and says he is from Cleve-
land. Ohio. The money, amounting to moe
than $4,000, has been recovered. ..,f
Erecution Benjamin r. Norris. alias 10
seph Thonason, was executed ut the town Of
Concord, in the county of Iroquois, on Friday.
the 10th ult. Probably more hardened in
dividual has seldom been brought 10 the gal
lows in any country BEFORE his execution,
he confessed he had stolen great number Of
horses, had assisted in setting fire to a bank
and the Pearl street house in Cincinnati had
been confined in the Ohio penitentiary for
rape, had shot four men in Ohio, and knock
ed down and robbed a man in the streets OF
Cincinnati, and had been concerned in other
crimes with certain individuals whose names
it would ' not perhaps be proper 70 mention nss
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