Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-11-08
PAssMORE WILLIAMSON.

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PASSMORE WILLIAMSON.
This victim Of Judge kane's diSpieasme
is at last set at liberty After spending
some three months in prison, for no other
offence than that Of having told the truth,
he is now released. He was brought be.
fore the Court on Saturday, and simply re.
peated in another fofni, the very statement
which led to his Imprisonment. He re.
peats his assertion that he had no control
over Colonel WUsLLER's slaves, aud coul.
not therefore produce them. Judge Kane
avails himself of the repetition, 10 escape
from the position in which he placed hiu-
self by his original act. Perhaps such
timely hints and cutting reproofs as tn,
following, and of which he received an
abundance, may have had their weight with
Judge Kane:
alt is customary.with great petentates
and Asiatic tyrants TO commemorate any
happy domestic event by liherA,ing STATE
prisoners, aud other acts OF clemency ann
mercy. Why should not Judge Kane, TIN
tyrant o. Philadelphia. by way Of a thank
offering TO Providence for the safe return OF
his two sons, upon the prison doors anG
let the prisoner go free! The sole crime OF
PassmoIe was the wirkedness Of telling d
poor black woman that, by the laws Of
Ptnusy wanna, she was entitled to her free
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shut up in dungeon quite long enough for
Such an "lense as that. II there was any
OF the spirit remaining in Philadelphia.
which manifested Itself in July, 1916, Pass
more Williamson would not long remain in
M"yamsnsing prison. But the men VIII"
made the Declaration of lndependrncc-Jef
ferson, Franklin. and Hancock-were mi
Pennsy
A NEW PosT OFFICE has been established
near Naugaluck, under the name of Beacon
Falls" and George Goodyear, Esq, ap
pointed Postmaster.
To The November term Of the Superior
Courtf"r this County. commenced on Tues.
day, Judge Park presiding.
tg~ Mrs. Betsty +. Hunt has been APP
pointed Postmaster at Nm,IryiIr, Ltchiield
Co., in place of A s. Hin, resigned.
u Henry Hopkins, Post Master at
Island Pond, Vermont, has been arrested
for purloining money from the mails.
D' incubation for the yellow fever is
reported TO have been tried in more than a
thousand cases at New Orleans, during the
past Summer, with perfect success.
ETA correspondent; of the Congregation
aiist from Calesburgh, Ill says that the
Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher, is to be called
TO the pastoral charge Of the Congrega-
tional Church in Galesburgh.
" Judge Seymour has been holding a
term Of the Superior Court in Hartford, for
the last five weeks, and expects to continue
it three weeks more: and we learn that in
most Of the counties the dockets are being
reduced with commemorate zeal by the new
Judges.
~ An Edinburgh paper says that
Cough. the Temperance lecturer. during his
two years stay in Great Britain, has ad-
dressed AGO meetings, and, round numbers,
500, 900 persons. He has travelled l3,SO7
miles by rail and coach, and slept in 300
different beds! No wonder he is wearing
ut!-this eternal change of beds would
alone have completely nsed up common
man. ...
Il The city of Milwaukee has been
thrown into great excitement by the at
tempt of man to burn the dead body of his
wife. The man was Russian, and his
wife a woman Of the Brahman belief They
were persons OF wealth and culture. The
woman had desired in accordance with the
faith of her fathers, that her bcdy might be
burned. The husband had made all the
necessary arrangements and was abont to
light the funeral pyre, when the sheriff in
.erfered, took possession of the body, and
had It buried in accordance with the faith
of the community, rather than that of the
deceased and bereaved. The husband in
sisted that his religion commanded, and the
law did not forbid the burning of the body
but the sheriff knew best, and the sheriff
prevailed.