Litchfield enquirer., 1839-10-24
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TOT SOtnS yGttfS prior 10 nus CttFtuIes uC tAou
been engaged in the slave traffic. lie stated
that either as agent for others or on his own
account, his business was to conduct prison.
ers of war and kidnapped Africans from the
interior TO King Sharke, who resided on the
coast and sold them 10 slaverS. Just before
his capture, some difficulty occurred be-
tween himself and King Sharke, when the
latter becoming cEragcd, seized him and
sold him 10 a Spanish shaver, thereby melting
out To him tho same measure he had been ac-
cuStomCd to mclc out to others OF his own
race. Fearing that there might be some
mistake in this natter, and that Antonio, who
speaks both the Spanish ltnguage and Gin
QueZ's native tongue, might not have repre-
scented the tac;s truly, we declined publish
ing them during the stay OF the negroes in
this city but we learn from the New Haven
Herald of Thursday last that CinqueZ made
the same acknowledgment on the day previ-
Gus. to another person, who was able to con-
verse fluently with him in his own language.
With this confirmation we do not hesitate to
richly to have merited his fate, and to DC tho
unworthy recipient Of public sympathy. ..i
Hartford Courier.
A Bank porth hGring.-h is cry often
heard in these hard times that tue Banks won't
discount. We know bank whose vaults
are we'll stored with the richest treasures,
which is open TO all who are disposed to APP
ply, and which, through oil the pressure has
been rs ready to discount as in the most pros
porous times. Gentle reader, if you are con-
tent to quit speculation and are willing to
make your mark, you can be accommodated.
This bank has a perpetual charter, and it is
known as the Grand Bank of Terra Firnla
an entrance may be found on the sunny side
of most Of our hills. Its keys, which you
must grasp without gloves, are the plough,
the spade and the hoe. The only security
that is required is industry, endorsed by tenn
perance, and It seldom offers any thing but
made themselves lean by complaining of
hard times and the scarcity Of money need
only try our experiment, and the sooner they
take the responsibility the better. Applica-
ton should be made this month.
- Adrian Wa,chman.
A Strange Case of Bigamy.-In September,
a Liverpool paper informs us, the police IN
Bury apprehendcd man named Thomas
Sharrocks, of Bury, overlookef OF power
looms, on charge of bigamy; and he was
fully committed to the New Bailey to take
his trial at the quarter sessions. The facts
arc, perhaps, the strangest connected with a
case of bigamy on record. About years
ago, Sharrocks married his first wife, Betty
HILBERT, at Radcliffe, and it appears that
they lived together comfortably. 1t seems,
however, that he thought another wife would
make his happiness and his household COM
plete; and he accordingly succeeded in per-
suading young woman, aged about IL
years, ofprepossessing appearance, unknown
to her parents, TO become his second wife,
and they were married on the 2Sth OF July
last. The strangeness of the transaction is,
that the first wife went to her husbands Sec
ond marriage, oGiciated as bridesmaid, and
actually pulled her own wedding ring from
her finger, and with that ring the ceremony
was performed. When the man was appre-
hcnded, he and the two wives were living
very comfortably together, oil the parties
apparently unaware Of the degradation to
which they were reduced for, on the ap-
prehension of Sharrocks, his wives Thought
1t was hard that the law should interfere with
them ifthey were comfortable After Shar-
rocks had been committed, and had been re.
moved to the station, he was visited by both
his wives: and the fellow there boasted that
no man ever had two better wives at once,
and that when he came back he would stick
to them through life, and lose his last drop
Of blood in their defence.
A shocking murder was recently perpetra.
ted in the neighborhood of Washington, Geo.
on the person of Mr.. John Hunton. His boz
dy was found concealed in the woods, about
l50yards from the road the skull fractured,
and apparently with an axe. The murder
cd man was last seen in company with his
son, lad about fifteen years Of age; against
whom the Coroner's Jury found a verdict Of
wilful murder. He was arrested and is now
in Jail.
Good.--At one Of our fashionable water.
ing places recently happened a sclf-impor-
tant foreigner, who, upon hearing the dinner
bell ring at half past three o'clock, exclaim-
ed, Is it possible you dine at this early hour
in this country? Why, have not been US
cd to dining :ill seven or eight o'clock in
London" Our second table folks dine very
late here also," was the reply Of yankee
present.
Fire al Aiken.-A fire broke out at the
thriving town of Aiken, South Carolina, at
Q o'clock on the morning of the 4th inst.
which destroyed thirty six houses and stores,
embracing the whole of the business part of
the town, with the exception of one house,
aud one building was of brick, used as O
bank. The houses destroyed were of wood.
The efforts to check the flames were fruit.
less, in consequence of scarcity of water
and the freshness of the wind. The loss is
estimated at $4,000. ~
.CRrpr-No country in the world furnishes such
triumphant proof OF the beneficial effects Of credit as
our own II was settled upon credit; it fought the
war O Independence upon credit; j. has converted
Io5ests INTO gardens on credit its sails have whiten-
60 every ocean ON the globe on credit 10 has driven
most o. the manufactures Of England from, our Dor
deIs by credit; by credit il lives and moves. and
without u there yonld DO neither national ndepen.
dence nor individual enterprise. We, therefore, ut.
terry deny the principle assumed by the advocates oG
the Treasury scheme in hostility 10 credits and
maintain that 10 ~ false in theory as i 10 aniirc
~. ena dessrncnve 70 practice We maintain