Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-11-07

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10Th, will give our readers some idea of the
sufIsrings Of the people Of that ill-fated but
once beautiful and thriving city.
In one house. q husband and wife lay dead
in room, and an adult niece in one adjoin-
ing dying-not 4 soul with them-a husband
was In room, alone, low with the fever--in
another room his wife, also alone, in labor
the servants had cleared ont or been taken
away. Ola family Of seven in one neigh
borhood, the husband and wife, and four chill
dren, lay sick at the same time, and had to
call stray wanderer TO get pail of water
young men found in dying state in their
rooms over ware houses, &c, Unattended
several carried off In twenty -four hours. -
You miss one, and the first inquiry is an
swered, gone to the grave yard''-a baker
drove his cart into the city in the morning,
and before next morning, he was himself dri-
ven to the grave-in one week three were
buried from very respectable house three
ia less space from one near us--some of the
common crowded boarding houses sent out
dozen al the same lime-banks and Offices
open only from III to 1.-The magistrates have
closed doors till November, unless forced
at least four-ffths Of the principal counting
rooms, dry goods stores and groceries, &C.,
are closed-the city is depoD,Ilated --and we
have yet six weeks of weather most q, be
dreaded northerly winds prevail. he DAYS
are hot, and the nights cool or cold-if 4
very trying, these winds dry up the skin and
check all perspiration, producing q snarting
feverish feeling, giving most people liyid
hue; we have under our roof now five cases:
we have SO much to attend to within doors,
| can hardly know what is the state of the
epidemic without. We put our trust in the
Lord and try to DO our duly Market sup.
plies are poor and scanty, and very dear.
am convinced that more persons die for
want of good nursing and attendance than
any thing else.
THE FRUITS OF MISGOVERNMENT.
AS Van Burenism rises the Country sinks.
The recent triumph Of locofocoism in Penn
sylvania, Maryland, &c. has been followed
by suspension Of specie payments in those
States. Van Buren, wars upon the people
and can only triumph at their expense. His
victorious car leaves desolation on its track.
Wherever It passes we see arrangement and
bankruptcy.
There is no nation i'm the universe SO high
ly favored as America, and but for the curse
of misgoyernment, no people in the world
would be as happy and prosperous.
The Government is directly and distinctly
responsible for the misery and ruin which
has been inflicted upon the people. Its prof.
ligatc political experiments upon the cur
rency, have produced arrangement, conyul-
sions, and bankruptcy. Contrast the condi-
ton OF the country, with its condition when
the present demagogues went into power
We had then sound, uniform currency
Exchanges, foreign and domestic, were reg
ular and cheap. Commerce and manufac-
lures obtained their facilities without diff
Guilty. All was then quiet and healthful.--
And then, most fortunately, there sods no conner
ION between banking and politics. But in an
evil hour, Van Buren, conceived the fatal
scheme which rendered banking subscribed
to politics. And having established the ac-
cursed principle in this State. he was trans
ferred to Washington to entail its horrors
upon the Union. This 'malign influence
has poisoned and polluted every thing. To
q corrupt and corrupting administration,
therefore, the people must attribute their ca
lamities. Albany Journal. So
A homicide Of rather singular character
was perpetrated last Thursday near SYRIA
cuse. A pedler, bending under the weight
of his pack. encountered on one Of the by
roads ofthat region foot pad who demand
ed his money. The pedler handed out his
pocket book. IS this all = asked the robber.
mo- said the .pedler. well then. fork up,
and be qnick!' The pedler put his hand in
his bosom, Grew out a pistol and shot the rob-
Der through the heart. The body was recog-
nized as that Of a convict just discharged
from the Auburn prisons Troy, Mail.
Suspected Murder.--We learn, by a gentle
man from Madison. (New Haven county, 4 t.)
that suspicion of foul play has been excited
against one Field, Of that town. The cir
cumstances are these. Field, and man
ty, Jeff Killingworth week before lust. for the
avowed purpose of going to Haddam. Field
soon returned; and on being inquired of
what had become of Huntley, said, he stop.
ped up at Haddan. A few days after, Hunt.
ley's body was found, in the river, and was
taken up and buried without much inquiry
his friends supposing he was accidentally
drowned. Subsequently, Field stated thai
Huntley did not go with him to Haddam OF
account Of some disagreement. Another q
his stories was, that, on the passage to Had
dam, Huntley fell overheard, and he (Field,
threw him an oar, but that he immediately
sunk. On further inquiry. it was ascertain
ed that neither Of them had been to Haddam
Suspicion was then excited; the body o
Huntley was disinterred. when it was discoy
cred that his skull was fractured. on the bach
ofthe head. Our informant states, that wher
he left, measures were being taken to ares
and examine Field Hartford Courier.
We understand that young Brooks, taker
| up on suspicion of numbering Mr.. Burr, o
Haddam. has been examined and bound oye
for trial before the next Superior Court fol
Middlesex county COuront.
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Mothers and Das,gh ters.--it was judicion
resolution of q father,as well as most pleas
ing compliment TO his wife, when, on being
asked by d friend what he intended to di
/, with his girls, he replied, = intend 10 ap
nrAn,:ce them 10 their mother, that they maj
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