Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1843-09-28

COUNTY PRIsoN OR WORK HoUsE.-We learn with
particular satisfaction that the patriotic and public
spirited citizens of the towns of Harwinton and
Cornwall have taken the inirnture this interesting
subject. In each committee has been raised to
correspond with the friends of the measure through
out the county, and to take such steps as may in
their judgment be best adapted to forward an under
taking of the highest importance to the ofgood
order and sound morals. 1t is hoped that the noble
example thus set will be universally initiated in the
county at the approaching town meetings. Why
should not OLD Lchfeld' do what has already been
so we'll done in Hartford, New Haven, and perhaps
some other counties in the State There 10 not pro.
badly in this country. certainly not in New England.
more discreditable establishment than the County
Prison at Ltch6eld village. Cold, damp. dreary.
and nauseous, it sets at defiance all the principles Of
prison arrangement and discipline which the wisdem
experience, and philanthropy of modern times have
discovered and put in practice There is no less
than thirteen vagabonds now in course OF training
in this school of immortality and vice. People Of
Litcheld County now is the time to attend to this
important matter, and to move to a consummatioR
that which every friend of law, religion, and HUI
manity, must devoutly wish.
New YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL FAIR.-The Fair
ofthe New York State Agricultural Society was held
at Rochester on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Of last week. The Tribune OF Monday, is mostly
filed with an account of the proceedings, including
the great speech of DANIEL WEBSTER, and Addresses
by other eminent statesmen who were present. The
proceedings throughout were of the most interesting
and enthusiastic character. James S. Wadswor,h,
Esq. presided over the meeting. Not less than 80.
600 persons were in attendance, and they were al
most all Farmers of the Western portion of the EN-
pire State. There were present, besides Mr.. Web
ster. Ex-President VAN buren,, Ex-Governor SEwARr.
Hon. FRANCIS GRANGER, Gov. BoUcK, Col. ALlsroN
OF South Carolina, and many other distinguished per-
sons. We shall endeavor to find room to publish,
next week, a portion at least of Mr. Webs,er's re-
Marks
H- The examination of Whitmofe, the Forgef.
which was to have taken place OF New Haven on
Friday last, has been postponed, lot reasons urpe1
his counsel until the soh inst. Since his are st,
acts have core 90 night, showing thatbis rougery in
New Haven not the first Of his operations in that
line. The Philadelphia u s. Gazette, of the 18th
inst. states that arrested on board the Bal.
tmore boat, named Seymour. who formerly opened
the Globe Hotel in Chestnut street, in that city, and af
ter furnishing it in grand style, decamped, leaving
his creditors to pay themselves best they might
out Of what he left behind. letter from Phiadel.
phia received in New Haven las we learn from the
Palladium written by person who was present
when Whi;mo.e was arrested in Delaware states
that he, (the wrter) recognized Whitmore as the
Seymour spoken of in the Philadelphia Gazette, and
also knew him as keeper ofthe Chesapeake Hotel at
Havre de Grace. tMd) and that when he left there
advertised fugitive from Justice 1t is fur
stated that after paying sixty or seventy dollars he
was liberated on bail, on his own recognizance. So
it appears that whilst fleeing from New Haven he
was arrested for swindling in Philadelphia, whichex-
hausted his funds and rendered him unable to pro-
coed farther than Delaware, where he was arrested