Litchfield enquirer., 1861-08-29
IT,.. I..t of the Bridgeport Farmer.

neiehbors becoming acquainted with the design, armed and equipped themselves, and made pre- parations for fight. The mobites hearing of the preparations that were made to receive them. abandoned their plan.
 The above is simply one of the Bridgeport Fmmer's Hes-based, we have no doubt, upon the me ndacious assertion ofsome would seces- sionist in our community. No thought was ever entertained of assaulting or even visiting MT. {" Ormel'' or Orman Stone. If there had been however. it is highly improbable that fears of |" preparations for a fight" on the part of Mir. Stone or his "neighbors' would have deterred our citizens from taking Mir. Stones case m hand
 The citizens of Litchfeld have given the seces- s;onists a warning, and it is all that has up to the present time been needed.
 But why take further notice of the Farmer or its reckless falsehoods-or of its correspondents libelous attacks upon some of our first citizens, or of its braggadocio accounts of what ,roud have been done # &c? We are abundantly able to take care of ourselves in this community. and we have only to hope that the Bridgeport Fnmer will be soon taken care of in its.
 Since writing the above, we are informed, and hasten to inform our readers, that the Far naer office was cleaned out and completely de stroyed on Saturday evening last. It msthere had been advertised one of those diabolical Peace Meetings at Stepney, place about nine miles north of Bridgeport, on the Housa- tonic Railroad. The meeting was to be ad- dressed by one Schnable, (pronounced diable,) Pennsylvania Dutchman, whom some of our readers will remember; Goodsell, En-Postmas- ter of Bridgeport, an obscure Newtown lawyer, and others. They did not however, come to time,'' and the meeting was organized into true Peace and Union meeting, with Elias G. Howe of Bridgeport, the Sewing Machine Millionaire, for President, and P. T. Barnum, Secretary. Loyal resolutions were passed, (which VIC print else
 where,) patriotic speeches made, the Stars and
 Stripes waved from the mast fthe Secessionists,
 and a good time generally had.
 Numerous citizens of Bridgeport were pres
 ent, among them Capt. Frye's Company of re-
 turned volunteers. As they returned to Bridge
 port, it seems that they were greeted with misses and groans, and finally with insulting jeers from the Fd1'n.er office.
 The following account of what followed, VIC take from the New Haven Journal of Monday:
 The gathering about the Sterling House soon as sumed the proportions of a large and excited
 crowd, which gradually moved down Wall to the
 corner of Water street.-the location of the Fur ner office. About o'clock the first forcible demonstration was made. By the aid of heavy plank the door to the stairway, which was strong ly barricaded, was broken in, and the excited crowd thronged up the stairs into the second third and fourth stories. It is safe to say that , there never was newspaper office moved'' ir so short period. In little less than an hour
 hardly a vcstige of printing material was to be seen in the building. The articles were moi marked ''glass," neither were they labelled "handle with care," but if such had been the
 case, the precautions would doubtless have been
 dsregarled. The windows and blinds were first } lo,re,etl to the ground, when the work of demo , lition commenced. Cases, chases, proof presses galles, frames and paper, followed thick, and followed fast" until both Wall and Water streets
 to two % feet in depth With fPsx
 of a newspaper and job office. A huge power
 press which the. crowd were unable to remove was damaged in such a manner as to be entirely , useless for the present. After being satisfied t that their work had been thoroughly completed f the crowd left just as the police d,riced. They
 however exercised their authority by clearing out half dozen boys from six to ten years O - age, who were quietly roaming about, picking uI and pocketing little "pi."
 When the affair occurred, the rooms were un occupied, with the single exception of Mir. Ma f fI,on Mor,o ono of tho DrOnrintnrs He Jeff however, ria scuttle and adjoining roofs, and Wa.
 not seen again during the evening. An old mus ket Was found in the upper story, having beer
 abandoned ka Bull Run, by the proprietor large number of "billies,' from one to two hun
 dred, were found on the premises, showing tha
 somebody was anticipating trouble. The win dows and blinds of the three stories were entire emolished-causing damage in the neigh borhood of Sl5O.OO. The building belonged te
 Mir. Ferris Hurd, and it is said will be put il
 complete repair by private subscription.
 Of course, in clearing out the Fdrmer office
 various evidences ofits sympathy with the South ern traitors were found-and, not strange to say f some Northern ones. Among other things, {
 United States mailbag was found, filled with pa
 pers, designed to be sent by express of course addressed to leading Secessionists in Alabama Georgia, and other Southern states. Some twt hundred "billies," or policemen's weapons were also found, with which the proprietors pro
 posed to arm their hands in case of an attack Many curious letters, the telegraph reports, wert . discovered also, duplicating, and some of then g exposing he treason Of certain politicians !, Q Hmaord and eiserhere; all of which items as a tonish nobody. We learn also that one of tn, Editors has gone to New Haven, threatening t, issue his paper from the Register ofice-but tn,
 Journal says, it won't be done." For tn,
 sake and credit of New Haven, we seriously hope
 not, but cant tell till we kmou.
 II Of course we must censure, as we most as
 suredly do, the act of violence which has thus
 put an end to even this most disreputable sheet. Better that the law should have taken its
 course, and that it should have been suppressed
 by the Government, as has been the case, mos essentially, with the N. Y. Journal of Commerce 3 Daily Ne,cs, and other traitorous sheets: but i ever there was a clear and plain case of the ut most provocation of violence and a prematur, suppression of its existence, it is the eours, which the Bridgeport Farmer has taken for tn.
 past few months, its doctrines, its influence, ant : its emissaries.
 It has itself and itself alone to thank for it. eliminating destiny. Its sacking and destruc I tion is clearly connected with its advocacy o | &l D.