Litchfield enquirer., 1843-09-21

nOtece0 Oy correspondent Ot tOo netCahutO
Journal, travelling in the State OF New Y0rk.
-" visited Peterboro', the residence OF Ger
rift Smith, and the focus Of those immense
| transactions in the purchase and sale of Ian b.
ded property, which Hon. Peter Smith so
| long and SO successfully carried on. About
forty five years ago, Judge Smith purchased
of the Indians 10000 acres of land in one
| parcel, covering nearly the whole OF the
present County of Madison, for the sum of
$225,OOO-He subsequently became the lar
gest land holder in the State. His son Ger
ritt, who, some years since, inherited the
greater part of his fathers property, now
owns more than one million acres of
land in the State of New York alone. lying
in forty-eight of its fifty-six counties. His
annual land TAX is upward OF ten thousand
| dollars! mention these facts as proofs OF
| the grand scale on which things were and
are done in this8region. "-C"r'ss. KsfIector.
WALKING THROUGH WINDow.-A singular
accident occurred at the Dry Goods estab-
! lishment of Messrs.G. & ]. w. Bull, on the
corner of Broadway and Maiden Lane. last
Saturday evening. The store IS .htted up
with a door and windows of large plate
glass. A stranger from Canada, attracted
by the rich display within the store and not
! noticing the door way, walked directly up to
and through the plate glass window. shIver-
ing the glass into thousand fragments but
escaping himself without injury. On learn
ing that the amount of damage was $50 the
stranger represented himself as poor man
and quite unable to make good the amount,
but offered the Messrs. Bull five dollars and
his ovcrcOat as part compensation for the
loss. The overcoat was declined, but the
money accepted and added to IL dollars,
collected BY Mr.. j. Kidd among the Messrs.
Bulls neighbors, in some measure repaid
the loss which the countryman's careless
ness had occasioned.-AIbGny Eue. Journal.
TYLERrsM AND CoRRuPr1oN.-The Boston
Bee intimates that in the bargain and sale
of the Office and emoluments of the Collec-
torship in Boston 10 Robert Rantoul, it was
stipulated that the editor of the Times in
that city was to have three offices at his
disposal, and that he has already sold one
of them for FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS !---what
he got for the others is no, yet knOwn.-
Can such infamy long exist without calling
forth the Indignant retribu,ion Of an out
ragged people!
FIRE IN CLrNrcN.-The dwelling house of
Mr.. Nathaniel Hurd, situated near the Meth.
odist Church in Clinton, was destroyed by
fire on Wednesday afternoon of last week.
The fire was discovered in the chamber over
the kitchen, and is supposed to have Origina-
ted through some defect in the chimney.
Most of the furniture 10 the lower part ofthe
house was saved-tl.at in the chambers was
destroyed.-N. II. Palladium.
BANKRUPT FEEs.-The enormous fees ex.
torled from men struggling through bank.
hnv npiC kilvv inus IL
while their exaction has embarrassed thu
sands Of destitute men. What the amount
of these fees are in the whole country, or
even in single State, we have no means OF
knowing, but n. New York they have peen
ENTHUSIASTICALLY ex,rovagant in pro-
por..:3n tofhe. services actually performed.
'EhesJotirnats Of Commerce states that the
District Court, in Bankruptcy cases, have
amounted ID $50, 700, and those OF the assig
nee, Mr.. Waddell.. to 100000. while the
Courier and Enquirer has received over
$4,000 advertisements.
ELoQuENT.-Ata recent gathering of the
friends of Temperance ut Newmarket, N.
H., an aged mariner by the name of Fall,
made most touching speech. We cut from
the columns of the White Mountain Torrent
the following extract:
~ have come, he continued, twelve miles
TO attend this meeting-yet l do not value
my time-I feel rewarded by what l see
around me. My friends, have seen more
of the world than most of you. have trod
the streets Of proud London, and the winds
of distant India have fan ned these furrowed
cheeks of mine. My keel has been upon
the sea, and my name upon many tongue.
Heaven blessed me with one of the best
of wives-and my children oh, why should
speak of them! My home was once par
adise. But bowed brute, to the killing
cup'-my eldest son tore himself from his
degraded father, and has never returned
My young hearts idol-my beloved and
suffering wife, has gone broken hearted to
the grave. And my lovely daughter, whose
image seem to see in the beautiful around
me-once my pride and my hope-pineG
away in sorrow and mourning because her
father was drunkard and now sleeps by her
mothers side. But still live to tell the his
tory of my shame, and the ruin of my fam
lily. ! still live-and stand here before you
to offer my hearts fervent gratitude to my
heavenly Father, that have been snatch
cd from the brink of the drunkard's grave.
| live to be. a sober man. And while live.
| shall struggle to restore my wandering
brethren again TO the bosom of society. This
form of mine is wasting and bending under
the weight of years. But. my young friends,
you are just blooming into life the places
of your fathers and your mothers will soon
be vacant. See that you come upt to fill
them with pure hearts and anointed lips =
Bind the blessed pledge firmly to your
hearts and be it the Shibboleth Of life's
! warfare"
A couple of inmates of the county Jail at