Litchfield enquirer., 1841-10-14

to-day, that the villain who had swindled
them of $4,000 had been arrested, and with
plenty of money in his possession.
In July, l64O there appeared paragraph
in the newspapers stating that Col. Monroe
Edwards, of Louisiana, had with great PM
lanthropy brought his 2OO slaves from ms
plantation up to Cincinnati, where ne had
set them all free. Col. Edwards about that
time introduced himself to Mr.. l.. Tappan
and other leading Abolitionists, and stated
that he was about to proceed to London, TO
procure the interference of the British gov
eminent for the purpose of obtaining the re.
lease of large number of slaves who had
been illegally struggled from Cuba into
Texas.
Before he left this country, however, he
became short of funds, and desired his aboll-
ton friends to furnish him some aid in this
respect but they in the meantime had re-
ceived advices from Cincinnati, that no one
knew any thing of the 200 liberated slaves,
and they had also come to know that the Col
onel had with him young negro, a native
African, who was sometimes black boy and
sometimes a black girl, as he had occasion
for the services Of either. They there
fore declined to aid the Colonel. This poor
black girl was last winter tenant OF our
Aims House, where she was delivered of
mulatto infant. Col. Edwards went to Lon
don, and his plans were there defeated by "a
letter written to Mr.. Buxton.
In conversation with the Mayor, Mr.. Nor.
ris. last year, MIR. Tappan told the story Ut
Col. Edwards. and in the pursuit of rogues,
some suspicion was turned towards Edwards
and on comparison of the letters which Mr..
Tappan received from him, with the letters
of Caldwell to Messrs. Browns, the writing
was found to be by the same hand. A mu-
latto man in Philadelphia was employed to
hunt up the African girl, which he accom-
plished in few hours, and very soon Col.
Edwards was found under her direction. He
was taken to the police, and on searching his
lodgings, his trunk was found containing
verv large sum of money. When the last
advices came away, $5O,OOO had been coun-
ted and more remained.
The Colonel is the son of q highly respcc-
table gentleman in Kentucky who deceased
in 1852. Whether he was the robber of the
Messrs Little and others some months ago
remains vet to be determined. Some of the
money received by him has passed through
the hands of persons here, and several ar
rests have been or will be made here. We
shall be able to give still more details in the
morning-N. Y. Journal Commerce.
Distribution ofthe Proceeds of the Public Do
main.-The correspondent of the New York
Commercial Advertiser, in an interesting
letter giving an account ofthe State Agricul-
tural Fair at Syracuse, says
"The Hon. Micah STERLING, OF Jefferson,
gave us very glowing description of the
agricultural state of matters in Jeffcrson.-
He made confession of having, while in
the Senate of this State, opposed all appro-
prations for agriculture-said he had been
fully convinced OF his error, and desired in
this public manner to make his change OF
opinion known. He had been converted to
the importance of industry and agriculture
in this wise. Having from habits, such as
lawyers frequently indulge, become dyspep-
tic, so that he could neither eat nor sleep with
comfort, he entered the hay and the plough
field, and soon learned by the sweat of his
brow to earn his bread, and also 20 procure
an appetite to digest it when earned. and to
nus 8StUIIISUIIeul hIsU rUuuu liIuI hts arm
wns improving. and great good TO his health
resulted also in great good to his estate. He
thanked The srhigs in Congress for the Land Bill,
by which he hoped our system Of Internal I'm
proremenis couM be carried through the WhoIe
State"
We rejoice to see one distinguished oppo-
siton man rising above the designs of party.
Mr.. STERLING, in this avowal, allowed him.
self to be governed by the impulses of an
honest heart. The Patriot instead Of the Pol.
itician moved him. The " Wings in Con-
gress" are richly entitled to the thanks of the
whole People for rescuing the proceeds of
Destructives. These Proceeds will indeed
"carry The system Of internal Improvements thrO'
the whnle Stale" The Land Distribution Law
supplies just what this State required to per-
feet its Public Works.-Albany Journal.
Going to the Vest.-Few people who have
remained at home all their life time, are a.
ware of all the difficulties and privations,
which they must inevitably suffer, in con-
sequence of removal to the far West. We
have heard of few instances Of fortunes
which have been made by the emigrants in
to the new States, but we have heard of
more who have returned to New England,
absolutely ruined in their fortune, after hav-
ing suffered all that humanity can we'll en-
dure. 1t was a just remark of one who had
experienced some of the trials of western
life, that, if family would but voluntarily
live as meanly in this part of the country
as they would be forced to do there, they
could lay up almost the whole oftheir ear
nings, and would necessarily, by degrees,
become the possessors of considerable prop
crty. The proper persons to emigrate into
the far west are those who are willing to
labor, and able to suffer with impunity
who have no important ties to bind them to
their native land. or particular attachment
to persons or place. But those who are fond
of society, impatient of toll. or of a weakly
or who have wives who are in
capable without great sacrifice of the af-
fections to leave their homes, ought never
to venture into the western wilds. One is
bound by the obligations of nature to take
into account the feelings of his family as