Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-21

THAI or TEE OHIO REsCUERss Y OsssIlz. O., April F, 1859. 1b AssEESr z As ZskkfeN Eaq1ir~ s4 The U. s. Distaict Court rooms in Cleveland have bssn daily csOdsd during the'past week, while the trsal of one of che thirty seyen Rescuers has been |in progress Tho prosecution have exaniped their ~itnessea and scite fully q they were able the ln.ln facfs In the case.
 In accordance with the principle which they seem- ingiy adopted st the outset of making this strict party mstter nearly all their witnesses have been from the ranks of their Democratic brethren. Of these. two testified to taking the most acfive part m the rescue of the negro, two more- the Kentucky owner of John and his save-catch- ing 'sagent' '=contradicted each nother Fhe de- fence will bring, and have aread brought forward evidence which will impeach the testimony of vet another two. if not more, and lay them .open to a charge of perjury, and still another testified in the most direct manner to the main point which the de- fence wish to prove; also acknowledging that he went to Wellington to !" put himself in the way of doing to others as he would be done by''--whether to John'' or the slave catchers he did not state, though it is not difficult to infer which.
 The prosecution have rested the examination of witnesses on their part and, as have just ntimat- ed, the defence have commenced by impeaching tes- timony already adduced To one uninitiated in le- gal lore and the uncertain ways of courts and uries it would seem that the government had not made out very strong case compa ratively, though per haps strong enough to secure conviction. The de fen.ant Bushnell was the one who drove off the buggy containing the negro after the slave catchers had released him, and the result in his case will probably have . bearing on the fate of the whole !" thirty seven" The testimony of an important witness going to prove that the arrest of the negro was ilegalone of the strong points of the defence
 twas ruled out by the court as irreleuant!
 Able lawyers are engaged on both sides, and the constituti onality of the Fugitive Slave Law will doubtless be thoroughly discussed. Thecase excites increasing interest and promises to be as important in it's results as the famous Sckles trial though it may occupy less space in Photographic reports and the columns of the daily papers, Perhaps it will be determined somewhat definitely by the time this trial is concluded whether Ohio should be ranked with the free states or not
 Quite an edifying exhibition and illustration of Kentucky chivalry was made during the examina- ton of the slavecatcher Mitchell, who was concern cd in taking the negro. That his third visit to Ohio on similar errands. He avery pompously en- frightened the natives here in regard to Kentucky manners and customs, branching of into disserta- tion on Kentucky negroes. He produced in court an !" Arkansas tooth -pick' i. e. a dirk, which to- gether with a revolver he carried on his person when he took ' John" The circumstances of the arrest, or more properly kidnapping of the negro, were related by the boy thirteen years old, whom these three armed slave-bunters used as decoy to get the object of their pursuit out of the village. The narration coming from such source and in the manner that it did painful and disgusting in the extreme It is quite doubtful whether slave catch era visit 0berln hereafter with very fattering cess. There is evidently something of an induce ment for them in the twenty-ve thirty fugitives who have made their homes here, and who as chat- teas would doubtless command as many thousand considerable property here already, and having some fifty children born in freedom it will not be very easy matter to induce them to seek the sunny South again and place themselves under the wide reaching benefits of the peculiar institution. What strange infatuation sometimes seizes man yes, not only mar, but things and "chattels personal" Why has the idea never occurred to the Tract Socie ty-not to 'expurgate'' or 6 alter," by no means but to "revse,' or slightly modify certain portion of Scripture, that it might read, Riches make themselves legs; they run away How ad- mirably suited for the consolation of evangelical brethren in a certain latitude when surrounded by painful circumstances. And how we'll " calculated to meet the appreciation of what the Tract Society seems to consider hs evangelical portion of our people, But enough of fugitives, fugitive laws, fu- gitive hunters, and fugitive rescuers. When the Lorain Co. Rescuers have received their verdict at the hands of their (Democratic) peers will write again. ~5 g Ns t-g ~-T M
 DEATH or THE WIFE or SENATOR FosTER.-Under our obituary head will be found the death of Mrs. Layfette 5. Loster Mrs. Foster returned from Bos- ton on Fridsy evening, having been taken suddenly i'll while there. The disease of which she died is supposed to be of the same nature that which has been prevalent for some weeks in the vicinity of Providence, and which has been called for want of q technical name, malignant pustule" The first indication of it's presence was in pimple upon the upper lip, supposed at first to be cold sore. On Friday, while engaged in making purchases in a upon recovering from it she expressed wish to re- turn home, Accoa oadinplv che rofur,o3 x,;&l, M-