Litchfield enquirer., 1838-09-13

Dreu4Ifrs n Nsw jersey fire n tho
New Jersey woods, we just learn from gen.
tlcman who left Bordentown yesterday, has
increased to a most alarming and frightfuA
extent. Millions of property have already
been consumed. A space of 20 miles in
length by IA in breadth through Burlington
and Monmouth counties, and consisting chief
ly of pine woods and cedar swamps, is now in
a state of confagration. The clouds of smoke
are seen twenty miles of, and at night the air
is filled with a lurid blaze which dims the
moon. The grass and woods are so parched
from the drought, that the flames spread with
lightning-like rapidly, presenting at night
scene of unparalleled sublimity. great
many houses and thousands of cords of wood
are destroyed and it is feared number of
persons hemmed in by the flames have per-
ishcd.-StGr. ...
poor drunken squaw of the Tuscarora
tribe was run over and killed by the cars on
the Lockport and Niagara Falls rail road a
where she had bought a shilIing's worth Of
whiskey, part of which was found in tin
pail by her side. She was lying across the
track, and both legs were severed from her
body.-N. Y. GGz.
Bunker Hill to be Destroyed THE Boston
Journal says" The grading of Bunker Hill
or more properly, Breeds Hill, has CON-
menced. We visited it yesterday, and found
the pickaxe and spade briskly employed
We learn that it is the intention of the pro-
prietors of the lots to reduce the Hill about
eight feet, and of course the old redOubt Will
be destroyed, and all the surface removed,
excepting few hundred square feet around
Al To 1ooe hot f1oIIn
exists in relation to this proceeding and we
hope it is not even yet too late to stop the des-
ecrating work and save the battle ground
There is not place on earth, not Thermop-
yl@, nor the Capitoline Hill of Rome, so wor--
| thy of immortal honor, or whence have
sprung results of such momentous importance
to the human race.-N. Y. Express.
| The Buffalo Forgeries Rathbun Allen,
nephew of the notorious Benz. Rathbun, Of
Buffalo memory, passed yesterday, in ironss
through this city, on his way from New Or
leans to Buffalo, in charge Of some officers,
who were conveying him to the latter place
for trial on requisition from Governor Mar.
cy.-ibid. z
| Unpleasant Intelligence from Charleston.-
The Norfolk Beacon of Saturday says We
learn from gentleman who left Charleston
on Sunday last, and arrived here in the cars
yesterday afternoon. that the sickness ragged
to an alarming degree when he left there
| In one house four or five of its inmates
were carried off by the prevailing disease
He also informs that on Saturday last, while
attending to the burial of Mr.. Frederick.
(brother of Captain Michael Frederick, of
Baltimore,) he counted forty graves opened.
in one of which he saw three collins deposit
ed. The mechanics generally were leaving
the place. 2-.. .v-s.. ..s.gs.. .,s-
! Dutifm Wido,c.- The clerk of large pa
IRISH, not five miles from Bridgenorth, Sa!op,
perceiving female crossing the churchyard
in a widows garb, with a watering can and
bundle, had the curiosity to follow her, and
he discovered her to be Mrs. --, whose
husband had not long since been interred.--
The following conversation took place -
"Ah Mrs. --, what are you going to
do with your watering cana" "Whv Mr..
p, ] have begged few hay-seeds. which
have in my bundle, and am going to sow
them upon my poor husbands grave, and
have brought little water with me, to make
them spring" Tho clerk replied, "Yon
have no occasion to do so. as the grass will
soon grow upon it," "Ah! Mr.. p, that
may be but do you know my poor husband.
who now lies here, made me promise him ON
his death-bcd / would never marry again
till the grass had grown over his grave and
having had good offer made me, dunna
wish to break my word, or be kept as am"
Slaves Emancipatea in the West Indies.-The fol.
lowing table and estimate are copied from the Penn
sylvana Freeman:
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