Litchfield enquirer., 1837-08-03


 has, up to the time of his death, eluded, with dexterity worthy of more educated Vlll- ain, all the searching efforts of justice to cap ture him. He has lived for the last tnree years an outlaw in the marshes m the rear O! the city. Many years since he had ms rlgnt
 arm shot of {; he is said, notwithstanding tnls | deprivation, to have been an excellehI
 marksman, with but the use of his lelt arm
 Inured bv hardships and exposure to the ctl- mate. he has subsisted in the woods and car
 ried on, until this time, his deeds of robbery
 and murder with the most perfect impunity -the marshes surrounding our city being al- most impenetrable to our citizens.
 This demi-devl has for long time ruled as the Brigand of the Swamp" suppo- sition has always found believers that there the city, and that Squire was their leader.- He was fend in human shape, and has done much mischief in the way of decoying slaves to his camp, and in committing depredations upon the premises of those who live on the outskirts of the city. His destruction is hail. ed, by old and young, as benefit to society.
 A Spaniard was yesterday morning in the swamp, and proved the successful foe of this enemy to society. Squire raised his gun to shoot him. but failed, the gun having snapped. Immediately the Spaniard rushed upon him with a big stick-he gave him blow which brought him to the ground, when his brains were literally beat out by the infuriated man. Proud Of his victory, the conquerer came in- to the city and reported what he had done.- On hearing that Squire was dead, the author ities determined to have his body hauled to the city, and forthwith appointed guard of men to repair to the swamp and bring it.
 About two o'clock yesterday his body was exhibited on the public square of the First Municipality. For the sake of example, two or three thousand slaves were encouraged to go and see it. Squire was so well known to the negroes of the city, it was thought it would have a salutary effect to let them gaze upon the outlaw and murderer as he lay bleeding and weltering in his gore. So enor- nous have been the crimes of this negro that the large multitude of slaves assembled to see the last of him, shuddered at the bare re- cital of his bloody and murderous deeds.
 It is to be hoped that the death of this lead CT of the outlaw negroes supposed to be in the swamp will lead to the securing of the swamp round about the city. This nest of desperadoes should be broken up. While they can support a gang and have camp, we may expect our slaves to run away, and narrowing depredations to be committed up- on society.
 3he Cemeteries of New- Orzeans.-A writer in the Louisiana Advertiser is endeavoring to awaken public attention to the Cemeteries of that city, which once, as we can bear wit ness, were disgrace to civilization, though we cannot say what are their condition now. " At this season of the year," says the Ad- very excessive, what horrible consequences may we not anticipate; from the disgusting exposures in the grave yards of our city, of the bones and flesh of our dead. The per- sons we call sapages (bless the mark,) would treat the bones of their ancestors with much more respect than we do, who boast of our superior civilization It may be said, that so many persons die here, without any rela- tions, or connexions, that this is the reason there is so much culpable negligence in the proper maintaining of the graves, and the decent preservation of tho grounds. This is really most brutal and silly excuse and the crime, for we consider it great one, re- dounds on ourselves, for we are bitterly pun- ished for our inhuman neglect. The danger ous miasmata, which issued from those pla- ces, quickly pollute the whole city, and im- pregnate with poison the air that we breathe!
 "Every one knows, that the falling of the river is looked upon as a hamburger of sick ness and disease, from the quantity of offals to the rays of the sun the fermen- most noxious of gases, and these produce the most deadly effects, when taken into the sys- tenn by inhalation l; but, if the banks of the river, and their dismal deposits, are thus in- in destroying our health, in ten- fold degree are the grare yards of New- Orleans the fertile cause of onr fertile epidemic!
 ' SHREvEPoR T, June IA, 1S37
 Sir-I have made a visit to the raft, cros- sing the river into the parish of Claiborne, proceeded about 15 miles, having to swim my horse over some half a dozen bayous. which are outlets from the river into lake Bistenau.
 The country on this side the river to a considerable extent, is overf1owed at an or- dinary high stage of water this, however, will be oviated as soon as the timber from the raft can be floated in the bayous, so as to create dams, thereby forcing the current of the river into its old channel. Some exten- sive plantations here present themselves, opened recently by South Carolinians, who give to the Red River swamp preference to uplands of equal quality.
 The raft presents body of timber wedg- ed and piled together in a singular chaotic state 1; trees of the largest stature stand erect, buried to great depth in the alluvial in many places masses of timber for 30 and 40 feet deep, the accumulation of ages, with large trees grown up firmly rooted in the de- composing mass. The enormous quantity of timber cut out in the distance of five miles exceeds credibility. The body of logs float ed, hauled and piled to form dam over one outlet only, would have required, without the aid of steam, the labor of an army for years dead trees of solid timber 10 to IS feet in cir conference, are torn out of the beds in which