Litchfield enquirer., 1845-07-24

thefts committed by wretches on the property of the sufferers. Ten individuals we have heard of as being arrested for this infamous exaggeration of theft and robbery.
 P.S. We have just been favored by gentleman with the following list of buildings burnt:
 Broad Steet-East side, from No. I5 to s5; West side, from % to 90-total 69.
 Beouer Styeet-North side 25; South side 24- total 49 Erchange Ploce-Both sides. 26.
 South TTIIliana Street-Do. 22.
 .Ne1c Street-Do. 48.
 | BrO0dscdy-Do. 39.
 Stone Street-1S
 l JM0rketfeld Street-Do. 31.
 Grand Total of buildings destroyed-302. It is now 3'oclock-just 12 hours and a halfsince the fire broke out-and we have not another mo- ment to devote to the prolongng of our chronicle of it's ravages.
 The Cincinnati Enquirer, the Loco-Foco or- gan in Southern Ohio, gives the following account of an Editorial recontre in Columbus:
 .dnotler Coon Skinned..-We understood yes- terday from private advces, that offensive arti- cle appeared in the Columbus Ohio State Journal Saturday last against Col Medary, late of the O. hio Statesman, which caused a personal recontre between o. F0liet tha senior editor of the Journal and the Colonel. The two antagonists met in the middle of the wide street and came to blows. Fol- let raised his cane, seeing that Medary was bei'g- erent and called out to him 'sWhat do you mean 7! owhich Medary replied, to whip you, you d--d scoundrel," and at the first pass knocked him down. It having been given out by the friends of Foilet that if Medary assaulted him, he would fare badly, the combatants soon had a crowd around them; and none desirous of suffering them to set- tie their own business in their own selected way, as the aforesaid confident friends of Follet. The democrats did not object. for they knew their man, and the result was that Follet received whipping -a bad, c dyeadful schipping.
 This is the fourth time that editors of that misc rable thing. the Whig Organ of Ohio, have been whipped and disgraced for their unprincipled course e,-Allen, by Buchanan, Bot Smith, by Dr. Miller,-Follet by M. Medary,-Teasdale in the spring, and now Follet, by Col s. Medary, and we have no doubt there will be "a few more of the same sort" as the razor strop man would say.
 Follet is large. athletic young man. but too in- nerently mean and unprincipled to fight well.
 1.-the next Whig Editor who shall be assaulted in the street by burly Loco-Foco ruffian shall shoot the assailant dead on the spot, the Editor of the Enquirer and his admiring readers will be mor ally guilty of the homicide. Such articles as the above are directly calculated to incite and provoke rufanisn. Let their authors look to their respon- sibility !~- Iri6stae.
 The Lcsp of LiJe1.-The PROVIDENCE JOUR- NA1' says:-
 "The atrocious decisions which have regulated the law oflibel in New York, have awakened pub
 lie attention to the insecurity of the liberty of the press and the liberty of speech to which they di- rectly tend. Repeated cases have been tried in | which the defendants have offered to prove the truth of all that they published, and have been re- 1 fused the right to do so; and men have been con- | pelled to pay costs and damages for making state. ments which were undenied by the plaintiffs. But | the most remarkable case is given iE the Albany l, Evening Journal, the editor of which paper was compelled to pay some four hundred dollars for not hbeliing a man, for suPpressing an accusation brought against him in letter from correspond ent. This is hardly more than legitimate deduc- tion from the decisions which have been made in other cases, but we think it will aid somewhat in bringing about the reform that is so loudly deman- ded. We ventured to say that in no other State in the Union could such decisions be sustaned in no other State in the Union could men be successfully prosecuted and harrassed for making declarations which they were fully prepared to prove. We are quite certain that such system will not long be suffered in New York. It's abuses and expressions are too glaringly obvious; it amounts in fact to a ted in free country"
 End of e .Miscreant.-The last Pensacola Ga- zette gives an account of the apprehension of a man of the name of Avant, and one of his confed- crates named Powers, near Apilachicola. They were subsequently, taken to Marianna in Jackson county, where they were hanged on Friday, the 2Oth inst, without the form of trial, and notice was at the same time given to four gentlemen of the blackleg order, that if they were found in the place after the lapse of ten hours, they should share the same fate. If any thing can palliate the atroclty of Lynch law, the circumstances connected with one of these wretches would almost justify this mode of punishment. Avant a monster in human | form, and his life, for series of years, had been marked by crimes of the deepest die. He went to Pensacola some years ago. fugitive from justice from the State of Alabama. where he had murder ed Sheriff He had not been long in Florida. be- fore he attempted the assassination of citizen, and being obliged to fly. proceeded to Marianna, where he was concerned in the murder of another l officer. He then fled to the swamps contiguous to that town, where, up to the time of his apprehen sion, and at the head of a band of outlaws, he perpetrated murder and robbery upon all who fell in his way. To such length, says the Gazette, had his audacty been carried, 1t was considered dangerous to travel through that part of the State. The peace and we'll being of the community de- manded that $ lch villain should meet with re- tribution for his outrages-and owing to the inef ciency of our Territorial government. jals have been provided for the security of criminals; he and his accomplice therefore, in order to insure their punishment, were brought to a speedy exc cuiion. Those concerned were actuated by anoth | CT motive; there are still remaining number of men Of the Same desperate character in the swamps about the county, and an example which the slow l process of law could not afford, was necessary to strike them with terror The only sentiment l which we can express on the subject ia. regret | fhakA A1a # haHa