Litchfield enquirer., 1839-01-10
From me Roches,er Democrat, Of the 9OA Dec.

notable parsonage. ,. In addition TO whit we.
have already published, two letters were re-
ceived in this city yesterday by Mr..
Sluman Hafeis, and the other by Alderman
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. fact, and briefly
statirg the particulars OF the assassination,
as we gave them yesterday morning. Nc
Nab, with few companions, were passing
the dense Grand River Swamp, when he was
shot directly through the temple. He fell
from his horse, and, the letters say, died in
stantly. aiie ST aa5i aG5 ".sEaft
3 The persons who were with him only wait
ed TO pick up the dead body, and made off
with the utmost despatch-apprehensive, it is
that large force was secreted in a
dense cedar brake from whence the fatal bull
Let was fired. -5E sil ai 4al3saias
COL M'Nab was Speaker of the last House
of Commons of Upper Canada, and more re-
Gently has taken very active part; in de
fence Of the Province. The burning of the
Caroline, at Schlosser, was accomplished by
his orders. For his exeYtions, at that crisis
more especially, he was Hknighted by the
British Government, and the presumption is
that he has been aSsassinated for the same
cause. Capt. Usher, one of the party con-
cerned in the burning of the Caroline, was
assassinated in his own house not many
weeks since. Others, it is reported through
the Canada papers, are marked for similar
fate. Whatever may have been the charac-
ter of the transaction at SchloSser, there can
be but one sentiment among honest men as
TO the character of these asSasSinatiOns We
hope the authors of them, whether Americans
or not, may be ferreted out, and brought to
condign punishment. % .4slaa
The Hamilton Gazette, of the 10th, says
that Col. Chisholm was shot at, a few nights
"a ,,~;n;,,raa o"- '-o"00' iF'
PoT Th u Rs.h,,rs. co,,.;or sovs that ,J,doe
1ones has hoan ~. mod hv a istter from phi.
oSalnh;a that be sn5 hi: hro,hers q re- MARI.
Cd ear sssess;nnt;oa 80 : -''- 1' -
~ - $3.50 ''. II u.
A''ae' oeco'l'ts co"'""'ee '"'' 'e'''' y "''
murder Of McNab. 3, 4 ~. ,.,...,..,,...-.
''t 4. ... IN r.,.,.f,. ~,
A Prison Scene.-As one Of our citizens
was recently journeying homeward from the
commercial metropolis, he stopped, for an
hour or two, at Auburn. lmpelled by mo-
tives of curiosity, he repaired TO the State
Prison, and went the usual rounds, with the
view of contemplating, in his low estate, !"
ONE whom he had known and moved with in
palmy days of proud and golden prosperity,
but who was now within those gloomy walls,
a convict tel0,, condemned to years Of silent
toll, side by side with villains Of every hue
Of crime. In a secluded part of the in,-
mense building, he found the object OF his
search, attired In the coarse particolored con-
vict dress, soiled and dirty, his hair cropped
closely 10 his head, and his SMALL yet digni-
fed form, bent painfully over his task. His
was deadly pale, save where,
upon each cheek, q small deep hectic spot
told the troubled workings Of his unquiet
mind, while his unshaven chin, with beard
of a week. growth, contrasted strangely with
his high marble like forehead, and altered
features, iinparting a wildness to his appear
ancc, which befittedthe gloomy scene around.
It was BewGa,in RGth6slN the Forger. He
was occupied in shaping the beechen blocks
of which joiner's planes are made, and stead
lily wrought at his new employment his del
icate hands unused to manual labor plying
busily and dexterously the tools Of his work
bench. AS the visitor gazed upon the sad
spectacle. through the narrow openings Of the
dark passage from which the cOnvictS are
watched by the guards Of the prison, unseen
by the prisoner, another visitor stood by, sim
iiarly occupied, who had been employed by
the man they were contemplating, as one Of
the superintendent of his t'co thousand labor
ers, when engaged in carrying on his gigan-
tic operations. The latter stood silently In.
tent on the scene, until he burst into tears and
turned away. The ifrepressibIe synpathies
which arise inthe human bosom, often IN de.
fance Of the stern decisions Of Justice, and
often lavished upon unworthy objects, whom
some redeeming traits have endeared to us,
his feelings, and he left the
Prisoner to the "peopled solitude" Of that
populous dungeon IN
Nor is to be wondered at, that the humili:
alton ofthis sometime Girard OF the West"
should produce IN the public MIND Keeling
Of regret, mingled with the CONVICTION that
the wholesome though harsh correctives OF
justice must be visited as well upon the iofti-
est as upon the lowliest heads, that are alike
sheltered under the o'ercanopying @gis OF
our laws. The conviction which had settled
upon almost every mind, that through the in
f1uence Of friends. the ingenuity Of able