Litchfield enquirer., 1837-04-27
DISASTER AT SEA.

The snip WeStcneSter, ferrlSS pOuuo ALOAn
 New-Yor to Liverpool, on Friday morning.
 April 14th, at 10 o'clock, in lat. Al lO. Ion. 66
 40, during gale was struck by lightning i;
 tearing away the main-top- royal and gallant
 masts-severcly iniuring three men in the
 top, descending and splitting the fiferail into
 splinters, and entering the hold set fire to the
 cargo of cotton and passed out the bright side,
 bursting the timbers. Soon after the disaS- ter took place, a volume of smoke issued from
 the hold and gave warning that the vessel
 was on fire. The matches were immediately
 secured, and covered with wet blankets-and
 the course ofthe vessel changed. The West
 chester arrived in this condition, in our outer
 harbor, about midnight last night, and is now
 undergoing surVey.-Portsmomh pa r inst
 A Woman Kidr,apped, Tarred and Feather
 ed!-We learn from the Thompson, Conn.,,
 Gazette, that most disgraceful outrage was
 perpetrated on a female at Mansfield, on
 Monday night the Sd ult. The female, it is stated, is a resident of Middletown, and was on a visit to her friends in Mansfield. On the evening above named, she was seated in her parents house, in company with an in- dlvldual who was paying her his addresses, when several disguised persons made their appearance and conducted themselves in such manner as to excite the ire of the fe- males companion, who began to show fight.
 He was quickly overpowered, however, by numbers, and detachment of the lynches kept guard over him, out of doors, with arms in their hands. The others then seized the female, and to drown her cries and screams, turned her clothes over her head, where they were held, and in that condition forced to some distance from the house to a place where they had prepared quantity of tar for their purpose. Arrived there they com- menced their diabolical operations, and completely tarred the female from her waist downwards. They then applied quantity of Sacingled to,0 in lieu of feathers after which manly transactions, they decamped, like brave men as they were, and left the abused woman to find her way to assistance as best she might. The only excuse which those villains have to offer for an act so dis graceful to themselves and their neighbor- hood generally is, that they were suspicious of the wonlan's svirtue.-Nor.hampto Courier
 "Outrage upon Outrage."-A humiliating scene, in all its lights, recently occurred in Memphis, Tennessee. A woman of i'll fame in that place followed highly respectable widow lady with cowhide, through the street, with the avowed intention of using it upon the latter. whose offence consisted in hoNlllS CAplCSSCu thC OpluAoll tA0t t1c NlFdSO had harbored one of her servants. Had not the lady taken refuge in shop, from her pur- suer, the fell purpose of the latter might have been accomplished. Such an attempt neces- sarily produced great excitement, and as is but too common in these attitudes and latter days, the people were impatient of the slow process of the law, and took the affair into their own hands. In the evening, as we learn from the Memphis Gazette, "a crowd of re- spectable gentlemen repaired to the house of the culprit, which was "raZed to the ground" During the attack a gun was fired from the house, which severely wounded one of the assailants. When the circumstances became generally known next morning, it produced still greater excitement against the offenders. A public meeting was held, and resolution adopted, for placing the obnoxious individuals in an open boat without an oar, and set them adrift in the middle of the Mis- sissippi. The meeting then constituted itself a connnalttee for carrying the resolution into effect, which it did according to the letter. Thus was one deep wrong, by an outcast of society, followed by the commission of an other wrong. When again shall we cessc to hear of the outrages, and summary punish ments, and live once more under the reign of the laws?
 Quite Sensuire fellop.-A singular affair has just occurred at St. Louis. One Edward Densley was found dead in the vicinity ot that place some weeks ago under circum- stances which induced the belief that he died drunk. Densley, having respectable and in- fluential friends, the newspapers alluded to the cause rather delicately. But the Obser- yer, it seems, mentioned too many particulars to suit the sensitive nerves of the relations of the deceased, among others, that very sus- picious empty bottle was found in the gentle mans pocket, which smelt rather rummy, furthermore, stating that the corpse appeared very much bloated for ono of person who had died ofapoplcxy, and so forth. For this offence, MT. Jacob c. Densley, a brother of deceased. called upon the editor of the Ob- server, and demanded either an apology for the libel upon the dead man, or else the sat- isfaction of gentleman. The editor insist young Densley became rather impudent.- The knight ofthe quill thereupon gave him sound thrashing and put him in the street, Densley forthwith commenced suit at law for the libel, and another one for the thrash ing; so that our friend of the Observer will have his hands full of law for some time to come.-N. '. Sun.
 The reto Hessage.-Yesterday, Governor Everett transmitted to the House of Repre- sentatives, a Message accompaniedby q vote ofthe bill which had passed both Houses for the increase of the pay of the members ofthe Legislature, and of the Executive Council, from two dollars to two dollars and halfp day.
 The speaker then read the clauses of the constitution, and stated that the question must be taken by yeas and nays, and that 1t would hn Whpfhnp fhn hill Sh1,,Il not1uifbc%on