Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-09-20

editor Of the = Mirror Of Liberty" and Sec
rotary Of the Anti-slaVeFy Vigilance Com
mittee, who was supposed to be implicated.
He was also arrested, and both were finally
held to bail in the sum of 5000. Ruggles,
for want Of sureties, was committed to pri-
son. Arthur Tappan, and several other pro
minSnt Abolitionists, were brought up to tes-
tify, but they all denied any knowledge of
the affair, except what they had seen IN the
paPeTs.-HGryord COar.
HUMANITY AND INHus1AKrrY.-The follow
ing affecting particulars were communicated
for the N. Y. Sunday News. by a gentleman
in Oswego, N. Y. under date of August 20:
Yesterday se'ennight, poor but resPecta-
BILE looking English woman, with three chill
dren, Zone of whom was aged six years, the
next four, and the other an intent in arms,)
stopped at the house of Mrs. -, in BaltOn-
Vile, near Fulton, Oswego county, New
York, and asked to be accommodated with
lodgings for the night. Mrs. - informed her
that she could be accommodated, and after
having paid for her lodgings, the lone widow,
with her three fatherless children, entered
the hospitable dwelling of Mrs. -, the hu-
name clearinghouse keeper at Baltonville.-
Previous to going to bed, and while beguil-
ing the tediousness of a somewhat long even.
ing, after wearisome journey on foot, the
distressed foreigner related to Mrs. - her
misfortunes. She told her that herself and
husband had left England and come to this
country some time since that, through fire,
they had lost the whole Of their property !;
that her husband then wended his way with
his family to Syracuse, where he worked in
the fields two or three weeks that he then
became sick, and, after being confined to his
bed four weeks, died, leaving herself and
children entirely unprovided for and desti-
tute; that she had relatives near Kingston,
in Upper Canada, to whom she was then go
ing, in hopes that they would do something
towards helping her and her children; and
that. in furtherance OF her object, she had
that day walked from Syracuse toward Lake
Ontario, which she hoped to find some means
Of crossing.
All this was quietly listened to by Mrs.
-; her visitors woes were heard and pitt
led, and the sympathies of the hostess were
evinced in no less equivocal mode than fire.
Quent expressions of regret, and various rer-
bal lamentations for her guests calamities.
The widow and her children retired to
rest, and during the night that all-wise Being
who "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb
saw fit to affiict the youngest OF this flock
with dangerous and fatal sickness 50 Sc
we're, in the first symptoms, that when, at an
early hour on the following morning, Mrs.
- was called to look at the sick infant,
she confessed her belief that it could not live
more than an hour, if so long, .,.
Reader, what do you suppose was Mrs.
IS conduct Think you not she sent for
medical aid? Think you not she consoled
the afflicted mother, and ministered for her
own, and children's want! No she assuag-
ed the widows misery by telling her that it
would be dreadful for death to happen in
her house; that there would be no means Of
burying the child, and that she and her chiI-
dren must go before the Dolby died! .
The heart.stricken widow went. and had
scarce been walking through the woods an
hour, with child on each side and her sick
babe in her arms, ere he who protecteth the
widow and the fatherless for some wise pur-
pose unknown to mortal ken, saw hit to take
this lamb into his own fold ; and as the infant
died in its mothers arms, while travelling
the comparative desert, its immortal soul
doubtless winged its way to him who " doeth
all things WELL"
With the dead infant in her arms, and two
almost infants hanging by her clothing, while
her tears fell in torrents DER the corpse of
her youngest child, this outcast was met by a
laboring man, q native of the neighborhood,
whose cottage stood hard by. and who was
then going to his daily work. His name is
no, never mind his name. it was given 10 con-
fidence to the writer, and is already record
ed above.
Struck with the apparent misery of the
group, this poor man inquired the cause OF
the widows grief, and was told as told you.
It was enough. The honest man" Gods
noblest work"-not only pitied her mistor-
tune, but carried the dead baby to his dwell
ing, where he took out his hard earned saw
ings, amounting to forty dollars, from which
he buried the child, and, with his wife's as
sistance, comforted the poor woman and her
children in their distresses, paid their pas-
sage to Kingston, and returned home to pur-
sue his ordinary avocations, and enjoy that
happiness which must be unknown to Mrs
-, of Baltonville, and can only arise from
the possession Of "a conscience void Of Of
fence" -
The greatest magnifying power that has
ever been applied with distinctness to the
moon, does not much exceed thousand
times that is, make the objects in the moon
appear thousand times larger and nearer
than the naked eye. But even power OF
lunar surface ut distance of two hundred
miles, at which distance no living beings, al
though they were of the size Of a kraken.
could be perceived. Even although we could
apply a power of ten thousand times. lunar
objects would still appear at about twenty
five miles distance; and at such o distance,
no animal, even of the size Of an elephant or
whale, could be discerned. Besides, we must
remember that we have only birds eye
view of objects in the moon, and consequent
ly, surprising any being resembling man
to exist in the orb, we could only perceive
the diameter of their heads, as an aerOnaut
surveys the crowds beneath him from an el-
evated balloon. Nay, though it were posi-
one hundred thousand times, which would
cause the moon to appear as if only two and