Litchfield enquirer., 1837-03-23
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 m to make bad worse-but the merchants are only bent, and seldom break.
 Our attention has been called to what may De termed this remarkable pliancy of Amer lcan enterprise, by contrasting it with what we now see in London and Liverpool. A little panic seizes upon the merchants there, and what an alright there is! How the post chaises fly! How the merchants groan Even the Bank of England is in commotion! But what a feather ofpressure have the Eng fish merchants suffered in comparison with ours! The Government of England is the friend of the mercantile and manufacturing classes. The Government of the United States is their most bitter enemy. When diff faculties crowd upon the English merchants the Government ruSheS to the rescue-but when difficulties fall upon our merchants, the Government comes with specie humbugs, Treasury Circulars, and the like nonsense of blockhead politicians; but the merchants spring above, and defy the Government, and all it's power; and though they may not grow rich, the Government opposing them, yet they add to the industry and resources Cf the country, and some men, nevertheless, are made Princes by their labors.
 When this city was consumed so fearfully by fire, the merchants of this city did not des- pond for an hour. "Go to work and build it up again." was the universal resolution.- A blow fell upon this city, yesterday, Che news of several failures in New Orleans) which struck all aback for moment, but only for moment. Every tongue was in street, as it fell upon the pile of ruins of what was to be the Joseph's Bank, thought of some- thing ominous- nobody was appalled,. "Courage," was the word in every mans mouth. All hoped that the calamity would not fall upon such princcly- hearted men as the Josephs-but if come it must, " "courage' was the word. But the Josephs never des- paired for moment. They knew their strength, and they had the courage to meet the crisis.-N. Y. Express.
 NEW ORLEANS, March 7.
 Steamboat Burnt-About half past 7 last evening the steamboat Rob Roy, Dunsted, master, just arrived from Louisville, laden with flour, lard, &tc. took fire at the Poydras street wharf, and was burnt to the waters edge in the short space of three quarters of an hour. No lives lost. The fire broke out in the stern of the boat, and spread SO rapidly that the officers lost nearly all their trunks. The Rob Roy was an old vessel, and noted for killing several persons by the bursting of boiler last year at Columbia, on the Missis- sippi. We have not learned whether she was insured or not.
 The Virginia House of Delegates have pas sed two bills we think very popular. One making the election for members of Congress and the Legislature to take place on the same day throughout the state. The other caus- ing the Legislature 10 meet on the lst Mon day in January, instead of the lst Monday in December. The Senate have passed the bill relative to the elections, and it becomes a law. They take place throughout the state on the fourth Thursday in April.
 Horrid, FIen1zike.- The Harrsburgh Chron- icle gives an account of young girl fourteen or fifteen years of age, who had come to that place in search of employment, being enti- ced into den of infamy by--what shall we say, q brute! No, we will not disgrace the brute creation by acomparison--a PEND, who told her he knew of a family who would be glad to employ her; and when he had thus induced the unsuspecting child to follow him into his hell, he set about the accomplish ment of her ruin. Her screams brought to CT fiends, whose united strength accomplish ed, amid her agonizing groans and heart rem ding screeches, their hellish purpose, each in turn playing Tarquin.
 Language is inadequate to utter the feel ings which such a transaction must rouse in the bosom of every human being. If ever Lynching were justifiable, it is in this case. Hanging is too good, and too honorable a mode of death for such miscreants, who have so disgraced the human shape. The Govern or has offered reward of one hundred dol lars for each of their arrest, if within the State, and two hundred dollars if taken with out the State. (Six of them have been ap-: prehended)
 Mysterious. large story has been in cir the body of female, richly dressed, orna- mented, &c., having arrived in the stage, boxed up, and of course, supposed to have been wickedly murdered. The true story, we believe, is this: One day last week, q large trunk arrived by the Transportation Line from New Haven, upon which no di- rection was found. This trunk was suppo- sed to answer the description of one lost a short time ago, and advertised for by MT. Curtis, firm of Curtis, Callender & Wells.- MT. c. went to the office, and found that the key of the lost trunk, (which did not belong to MT. c. himself, the key having been lett with him) fitted the one now found. MT. Curtis opened the trunk, when To! what should meet his eyes, but the dead body of man some 30 or 40 years of age, doubled up and squeezed in! One of our physicians was sent for, to know if he could explain the why and wherefore of the strange affair. He said he did know something about it-and up-- on further examination, direction was found upon one end of the trunk, to physician in Northampton. It came from New York; Mir. Curtis was pretty we'll satisfied that it was not the article he.wanted, and it was for warded according to direction.-Han'd Co~.
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