Litchfield enquirer., 1838-08-02

ire of inc village. The amount of Ioss is l estimated at 45OOO. It is remarkable that m nenson was killed. Some young men, who were absent on the following day, were suspected of having plotted the mischief and several have been arrested for examination. -BOssOn Weekly Messenger.
 THE SEASON AND CROPS.
 | The season, we believe, has not, within the memory of any man living, been surpassed 1 for the fineness of it's weather and the luxu- 1 riance of its vegetation. The sunshines and rains have come in such regular and beautiful succession; and the temperature has been so precisely what it seemed desira- ble that t should be that even habi!ual dis content has found no room for complaint {; | and the most fastidious imagination has not been able to say how matters should be inn- proved. Hay is coming in abundantly; and the season has been as favorable as it ever was for securing it. Rye and wheat, and barley ard oats are looking extremely well. Potatoes promise profusion, and Indian corn, the best treasure of New-England, never presented a more healthy and brilliant ap- pearance. There is really nothing to be l done but to shake our heads with sorrow, and cry {" it is too much trouble to gather all these good things" We shall never get through with harvesting and husking. O sad our neighbors' crops are as good as ours. We have got much, too much; prices must come down prices will be low; the poor will have enough this time; and other com plaints as grateful and as benevolent, of which there is always i'm our community quamtum suDicit.-N. E. FG1ner. s.-
 Boston, July 25th, 1888.
 CIVIC FESTIVAL IN HONOR OF DANIEL WEBSTER. Massachusetts against the world, and Bos- against all Massachusetts beside Boston This is emphatically the land of free princi- ples,-the Home of free Men,--as the oasis 1 in the desert, she is fair and beautiful in the midst of desolatior, and as free and indepen- dent as the little Republic of St. Marine, when surrounded by tyranny and corrup- tion. The public Treasury with all its wealth has proved insufficient to her pur- chase, and an army of office holders in thirteen years contest, possessed of all the buttresses and machines of power, too weak to overcome her. Glorious Massachusetts, how honor you,-and still more glorious Bos- ton. how much love you, ,-your noble prin- ciples,-your free institutions love of wisdom,-your patriotism your consisten- God, your almost successful warfare against
 
 cal and corrupt party, in whose hands Hea- ven, by way of warning for the future, and punishment for the past, has placed the rod Ofpower. ..s,. s,.. ...a-,. .san,. E.,
 speak, as believe, but the sentiments of every man who knows this great State, and this free City,-at least I am now but echo- ing the sentiments of almost sixteen hundred men, who have just participated in civic triumph to the Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER. No. where, believe, in this vast Republic in a time of peace, have more patriotic or en- thusiastic body of men assembled together. I have seen hundreds and hundreds of men at the hustings, surrounding some Eastern and Southeastern candidate for office, and hundreds upon hundreds assembled within the walls of the Capitol of Washington, and in almost every part of the United States, but no where have 1 seen so many men so deep- ly inspired with the spiFit of liberty, the ab- horrence of tyranny and the love of free Government' assembled who have put just now left the walls of Od Fanueil Hall.
 The occasion you know and the Guest who has been honored with such free-will of- fering from so many of his fellow citizens. It was briefly civic festival given to u dis tinguished Statesman and Patriot, for the eminent public services at home and in the council chambers of the nation. It was Q spontaneous acknowledgment of public vir- tue, great talents, and unquestloned patriot ism from sixteen hundred swelling hearts, and we'll did Gov. Everett, who presided at the tables in his usual Happy style,-ask for a parallel to the scene before him in the ci- vilized world. It was no where to. be found. The power of kingdom with its threats and flashes could not extort or exact that from any man before him, which was freely of fered by sixteen ,hundred. ..-t 7
 The story of the procession and arrange ment the Hall is told in few words. Fifteen or sixteen hundred were met at the old State House early after noon. There was no mi litary- escort,-no banners,-no marches,- no pomp or parade, ,--aothing but band of music to lead the way from the State House to the Hall. The procession was soon form ed, and soon the vast multitude were quietly seated around the festive board. Fanueil Hall was destitute of its usual decorations, but like beauty unadofned adorned the most. The portraits of some few of the sages and warriors of the Revolution, were hung as usual conspicuously upon the walls, and a single inscription, taken from one of MT. Webster's late speeches,-painted in large black letters upon piece of linen-were the only decorations in and upon the Hall. The inscription was hung across the front gaile- ry, and read: "t" i9f'}"i a''
 am here,-,ohers Y erer haue been and eper mean to be. Here,-standing !upol tke plGttorm of le, General Constituiion.--G plaiform. broad enough and firm enough to uphoM erery interest in the ichole countryy,-I shql! stiH be found"
 Fanueil all,-though destitute of all un- usual show; never presented in its mixed walls and its simple galleries and hallowed associ- ations, scene of more grandeur and subli- mity. Filled as it was to overfiowing,- crowded in every ecess,-with scarce foot hold left for passage way,-there was enough there in the presence of so many freemen, and in the presence of the distin. guished guest, his colleagues and friends, to make the Hall grand and imposing in it's