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VOL.- VII. . j ■ - ■. . .. - ■' j LITCHFIELD, (CONN.) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1832. No. 23.—Whole N& $8&. . .- ”■ * ' „rjafc-aT lUtc^ffel* Sttftttfrer: rOUUHED EVERT THUR8DAT KORKIN., Br HENRY ADAMS. TERMS. To village and single mail subscribers 2 dollars (ter year, payable before the expiration of six months. To eomnaaies of any number over six, $1 50 per E, payable ap above. To companies less than six, i per year, payable as before. HJ* 25 cents trill ‘ducted from «f»cb of these prices whenpayment . is made is advanca, These prices are exdfestve oi mail or stage charge for transportation. No papers will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the discretion of the editor. Notipe of a wish to discontinue must be given before tbe expiration of the year. * AbVKRTtsiEO. One square three taeeriioas, $1, and the same proportion for two or mere squares.— Half a square 75 cents. Continuance over three weeks 28 per pent per week. A liberal deduction made for advertisements continued C or 12 month*. Administrators’ and Executors' Notices, $t 00 Cemmissioaers’ Notices, • . 1 25 Allebmmeaieaiions must be post-paid. —*11 nil iirlimli Ii.ftim ii ... TO THOSE AFFLICTED WITH CORNS. THE celebrated ALBION CORN BLASTER af fords instant relief, nod at the same.lime dissolve and draws the Oora oat by the roots, without the least pain. _ . . . _ Certificate.—•* To those sALcmd with Corns ea their fort I do certify, that I have used the Albion Cera Plaster, wilb'cowpleie sucre**. Before 1 bad Mad one boa, it completely cared a Cara wlneb bad traahled-me for many year*. ( make this pablie for (be faeeefitof those aifcted with tbslii-infoleompb.tai. FtoeUmg. L. 1. F<+. 28. WM. SHAW.” Price, 58 cents a box. Dr. Rttfe' v«i mMEV purify the Stood, quicken its circulation, M. assist the suspended operations of nature, and ate a general remedy for the prevailing complaints among the fornele part of society. The rille are particularly eficacioo* in the Green Sickness, Palpitation of the Menrt, Giddiness, Short Breath, Sinking of the Slu rbs, Pel settee anil Disinclination to Exercwe and So ciety. Married Ladies will And the Pills equally use foi, except ia eases of pregnancy, whee they must not lie taken; neither mud they be taken by persons ol * tmmamm . • " AUO, TH* Celebrated Cambrian Tnotk-Askt Pills, ,i,B iiumediutA rebnf, without the I earn ' Tf iqnryto the Tooth. Oo trial Oh* will be found owe Oftlio best remediesknown for thi* complaint. Price 50 rent* a box. KT Some ere genuine wale** signed o» '*•? "“••'«*e ■rioted wrapper, by An SeU proprietor, I\ KIDDER, k immediate tuccettor to the late Dr. W. T. CoWWat.— | Wor mIo at hi* Cooatiag Room, oyer No. 99, Courl Street, Mar Concert Hull, Dome* and also by hi* M , special appointment, l»y # Samuel Duel and J. G. Beckwith, Litchfield; Wjfcm BfVowUs, South Farms; Daniel Norton, Canaan; Jndson V Whittlesey, N. Preston, ■W leaat^ SyJfadsworth, Hethlem; Newton If WM - Henderson, Goshen. ^ ^ ^ 10 *e>l ^^’lyeSwaS BUST RECEIVED, jyR^« . A QUANTITY OF WIKnttkt LtNSEED OIL, ^narmfnctnred | KdT M this County—Labarraque'a Chloride fraHj»f Soda, with directions for its various uses; qn^hloride Lime, llihbert’o London Brnwn .s''jBBt4Mit—with many other articles, at the Drug, L HcMediciitc and Paiot Store of J. CL BECKWITH; If yJtchfietd.Jaly It. It St. -_5 TOT m‘ ” . A PkKSII SUPM.T or r MEDICINES, PAINTS, OIL, WINES, fcc.&c. it '■ . ’■ —A WO— Ginger, Prpiirr, Spice. Sal-F.ratus, Copperas, A him. Block Lead, Noyenii, Gum Copal, Copal Varnish,TDtsin, Red Tartar, together with V variety of Other articles not upually kept in establishment* of thi* kind. lMfitld.Oel.4 W* ll ww" ”*■ —Jlnrtwi in many JK imrtieuhin on an entirely new plan, and liitjtSiinlmi ffry afl other trasses has l>ecn attested not only hy tha most respectable of the MadfeafcFactdty. but by the actual expe riment of those afflicted with thedisease which they are iotriuled to atli vio|e. An assortment of the afitove Trusses a jrli for sale, with certificates of their great utility, forewmiaation by LMfiM.Sepl.t7 __1« NEW .Book-Store. .'•*■* *>'•**? ft** «•»* W nRniMmn tim a«bsc * am iccnna a «w *,mi\ an *a«**T«nt»T or Bonks and Stationary, YJIpilCH they ara determined l« aell • If |o« a» can Ke purchased w Hartford or N«r H*»«i. ^ Goodwin Galpin. p. g. Cask paid far SHE£P SKINS auit able for Bank Blading. LiUkSeid. Jtm. i, I ML_*flj« or L'JTi" fiSWWStf *s v.™wiro«.. oa. on «r ca~ SSittSi*: Vumtt^'SZ iS!!IfTwTjUK. (fos natalco>L) ta A hmm «rba And it for their iotereet to ha ^T^Aaji Btlmf gt fdSwTiSri*. »«• From tht Aim- York Journal of Commerce, of Oct 17. DR'. BEECHER’S ADDRESS. The Address of the Rev. Dr. Beecher before the American Institute on Thurs day evening, was received with mnmued appropriation by a very large and respect able audience. It was characterized by comprehensive views, vigor of language, and felicity of illustration. Some passa ges seemed to electrify the auditory, who gave vent to their feeling in the usual to kens of applause, half suppressed in defer ence to propriety. The subject might be said to be the mean* of elevating the whole matt of society, constituting our station, to competence and virtue; and the means which he pointed out as sufficient to this great end were, first, the full developemcftt of all our national resources. There are writers, said the orator, who think that na tions had better depend on other nations than on themselves for somo means of competence. But those opinions were de rived from artificial circumstances. These writers theorise upon things around them, not understanding the true state of this na tion. The theory might be correct as to the nations of Europe ; for there one na tion was restriced in territory, another was burdened with an oppressive aristocracy, and all were palsied by monopoly and bad government. But here there was perfect symmetry in the whole body. Every part was strong. No nation was ever let loose upon n territory of such extent, with a cli mate so diversified, and with a soil so exu berant as ours; and no nation was ever stimulated to industry as ours; by free in stitutions. To apply to our condition the puiicj vi csurvpv, woiu os auauiu a* iv |»» w scribo the physic of a hospital as the daijy fare of a family in health. To be sure if a man bad but one leg, or one eye, it would be very convenient and expedient to bor row the nse of a leg or an eye from anoth er. But when a man ft possessed of eyes and legMjT he prefers to use those of oth ers, his taste and judgment border on the marvellous. The second moans of attaining the ob ject iu view, was the education of tko peo ple ; and upon this point the learned Doc tor dwelt at length, and with great energy. This education should, he contended, be raised above the level of what was call ed a good education, and it should he ex tended to the whole population. He did not mean the universal education of the A theists, which threw every thing into com mon stock, and severed tios betwoen pa rents and children, nine-tenths of which children, disgusted with tlieir reception from society, would turn tlieir backs upon it, and return to their God,—he meant the establishment ofinstitutions for the instruc tion of every child in the community.— Laws and Liberty would not be appreciat ed, nor maintained, by an uninstructed population. I To '.lie envious eyes of ignorance, prop erty was an unrighteous monopoly, and law was despotism. In arbitrary Europe, revolution was always productive of good, by breaking up the foundation of arbitrary power; but, in republics, it was not so.— In them, revolutions were fatal to liberty, for the provocation to revolution was the law; which was tlieir safeguard. The love of liberty in the mind of an uneducat ed man was the love of doing as he pleased. ! That oar institutions will ultimately be ex f posed to real danger, in the absence of general education, wlo learned Doctor il lustrated in a variety of ways. Tim re publican principle of universal suffrage which wo had adopted, would become un safe unless education was made co-exten* sive with the franchise. Education, more than the elective franchise, invests the ch ixen with the responsibility of character; and he most have a character to lose, or he cannot be a good ettixen. Manufactures were destined to flourish in this country, to an immense extent, occupying » large lortion OI (lie mm *•••• lion is to be depressed to the same level of vice, povpty aod ignorance, with that of English operatives, who aro trained to a single mechanical operation, they cannot be a fit population for a republic. To ed ucate them is the only way from which their degradation can be prevented. An experienced ship-asestsr, said the Doctor, once told mo that the difference between an English and an A merican sailor was this:—the English could do a thing but in one wav, nrhilo the American could do U>e same tliiug in ten ways. A deficiency of intelligence in oar citizens, mast be coun teracted by a strong police, aad this police, would in time become too strong for liber ty or too weak for the law. The Doctor panned this topic with much eloquence, sad closed it by adverting to the letters of Governeur Morris to Genl Washington, from Paris, written during the revofottoii; , a volume, he said, which was fraught with wise remarks on this subject. In the third place, the speaker mrged as a omens ef raising the whole population to ' competence and happiness, the awsud aw I rsAffeaTcaftwrs ,/tke mtifU. Whether, mid be, Christianity be from haavaa or wot, I day-light dons not more wwoly follow the ' San,than nationalproeperityaadImprava * asani follow its adoption. Ho coataadod : in oopealtioa to the ideas which ha knew waJTSSrta^ >»y some, that religion was not, under ordinary circsimataaces.tin common impression that the alliance o Church and State from which sprung si much mischief, had been sought by thi Church. This was not correct in fact;— It was ever the Government, which, feel ing the need of support in its usurpations courted the Church to' its foul And fata embrace ; and the Church had died in^jt for it ceased to be the Chnrcli of God.— The state of tilings in this couutry happilj secured us from this danger, and we were free to render to Caesar the things whicli are Caesar’s, and to Cod the things whicli are God’s. We lack time to notice the remaining topics of the discourse, flirt liar t Inm t'b'say, that the orator glanced rapidly at the perils whicli our country had hitherto encounter ed, and the triumphs it had achioycd,und at the circumstances whicli now appear tu cheer and animate us in our career- He exhorted every citizen towtand fast to hit duty, and closed by unfolding, in brilliant prospect, the glories which Providence hus put within uur reach. UNWRITTEN MUSKJ. By N. P. WillU. There is a melancholy mSiic in An* tumn. The leaves float sadly about with a look of peculiar desolatcness, waving ca priciously in the wind, and falling witli n just audible sound that is a very sigh for its sadness. And then, wlien the breeze is fresher—though the early autumn months •re mostly still—they are swept on with a cheerless rustle over the naked harvest fields and about in the eddies of the blast: and though, I have, sometimes, in the glow of exercise, felt my life securer in the tri umph of tiie bravo contest, yet in the chill of evening, or when any sickness of mind or body was ou mo, the moaning «f those withered loaves has pressed down my heart like a sorrow, and the cheerful fire and the voices of my many sisters, might scarce re move it. • -Then, for the music of winter, I love to listen to the falling of the snow. It is an unobtrusive and sweet music. You may temper your heart to the serenest mood by its low murmur. It is that kind of mu sic that only intrudes upon your ear when your thoughts come languidly. You need not bear it if your mindis not idle. It re alizes my dream of another world, where music is intuitive like a thought, nad comes only when it is remembered. And the frost too has a melodious4 min istry.* You will hear its crystals shoot in the dead of a clear night as if the moon beams were splintering like arrows on the ground; and you would listen to it tlie more earnestly that it is the going on ol one of the most canning and beautiful^! nature's deep mysteries. I know nothing so wonderful as the shooting of a crystal, God has hidden its principle as yet fron the inquisitive eye of the philosopher, am we must be content to g»w» on its exquisit< boauty, and listen in mute wonder to tin noise of its invisible workmanship. It ii too fine a knowledge for ns. We slml comprehend it when we know how the 4 morning stars sang together.' You would hardly look for music in the dreariness of early winter. But before the keener frosts set in, and while tlio warm winds are yet stealing back occasionally like regrets of departed summer, there will come a soft rain or a heavy mist, and, when the north wind returns, there will be drops suspended like ear-ring jewels between the filaments of the cedar lassies and in the feathery edges of the dark green hemlocks, and, if the clearing up is not followed by a hoavy wind, they will all bo frozen in their places like well set gems. The ncxi morning the warm sun comes out, and bj the middle of the calm, dazzling forenoon, they are all loosened from the close toucl which sustained them, and they will drop at the slightest motion. If you go alonf lipOIl 111© SOUlU »IUD vi ino wm»v n* hour, you will bear music. Tho dry foil age of the summer's shedding is scatlem over the ground, and the round, hard drop ring out clearly and distinctly as they art shaken down with the stirring of |lie breeze It is something like the running of a deej and rapid water, only more fitful and mer rier; but to one who goes oat in nat«r< with hit heart open, it is a pleasant music and in contrast with the stern character o Ibb season, delightful. Winter has made other souixb that giv pleasure to the seeker for hidAn sweet ness: but tbev are too rare and accidents ITbi described distinctly. The brook have a sullen and muffled mariner unde their frozen surface; the ice in the distal river heaves up with the swell of the cur rent and falls again to the bank with a pro longed echo, and the woodman's aze ring cheerfully out from the bosom of the un robed forest. These are, at beat, bowes er, but melancholy sounds, and, like a that meets the eye in that cheerless set sou, they but drive in the heart upon itael I believe it so ordered in God's wisdon We forget ourselves in the enticement < tbn sweet summer Its music and its lovt I i ness win away the teases that fink up tl -ar—„nd we need a hand to tarn i hack tenderly, and hide from us the ou mud idols in whoso worship we arc forge ting the higher and more spiritual altars. MMswnMi M Meant,regNed “thatso wrisg abet weaM Mt the well Mrda" f Method of Making a Newspaper. Pop i ular.—A few years after llie cwmmeuce i meet of the Columbian Centinel in Boston, ■ Mr. Russell, its editor and publisher, find ■ ing that the profits arising therefrom, were , not sufficient to defrny tils expenses, appli I ec to Mr. Barrell (one of the most popu , lar merchants of his time) for advice as. to ■ the course ho had best pursue in the very unpleasant dilemma in which he was plac ed. He informed Mr. B. of the particu lars of bis situation, in his usual plain, hon est manner, saying, that Ids expenses were so much on Uie increase, and his profits were so small, that he thought he should be obliged to give up his paper and seek his fortune elsewhere. Mr. Barrel imme diately remarked that Ills (Mr. R's) case Was not so desperate as he imagined, it to be, and recommended him to lash some of the most popular characters of the' day in the most severe terms in his columns, which course ho felt sore would not only bring his paper into more notice than it then was, but would greatly add to his sub scription list, and increase the patronage of adve’rtisets. Mr. Russell replit|, that such Recourse would be repugnant to bis feelings, nut us lie had always considered Mr- Barrel as a warm friend and a man of superior judg ment, he would take.his advice into serious consideration. On the morning of the next publication of the Centinel, when Mr. Barrel went into State street, he observed almost every ono with eyes and mouths wide open, ns if he was a monster in human -shape; and ho could not solve the myste ry of ibeh^looks entil a gentleman asked him why Mr. Russell had lashed him so unmercifully in his paper of that day 1 Mr. B. at once stepped into an insurance office —read the paper—and as he progressed in the article about himself, he waxed warm er and warmer, tilt at length, in a high dndgeor., he found his way to the Cenitinel office, when he demanded of the editor; in round set terms, why he had treated him so infamously, Mr. Russell replied, that as Mr. B. appeared agitated, lie had bet ter be seated until he became cool and col lected, and then he would satisfy him tu his heart's content. After looking to the affairs of the office, Mr. Russell appeared before Mr. Barrell with n low bow, and offered the following explanation:—" Sir, yon well know that 1 have evetpfcsteemed you to be nty most valued friend, and in whose good judgment I have placed the most implicit confidence—for in my ut most need, I applied to vuu for advice, which you cheerfully gave to me. At that time, it is true, that the course which you marked out for me, was rcpngnnul to my feelings, but after mature deliberation, I was satisfied that it would have tho desir ed effect and determined to pursue it.— i Then I had to select a subject, and after I looking around among our townsmen, I ! could not find one wliose unexceptionable > character, exalted standing, and extensive i usefulness wes equal to your own. _ J I therefore sotoefed you ns tho first object of attack. If a man cannot take a liberty with a friend, with whom the devil can he t'*—!V. Y. Traveler. fTlio rropeolnble •diio^bbove alluded to confirm* (be above.] Pride.—'There may bo pride iit any thing. The monarch* of Egypt built py ramids to perpetuate their names, and Sar danapalus claimed the liouor of posterity ia an inscription which told how well be ate and drank. In modern times we have some men who are proud of making good bargains, and ovcr-rcacliing their neigh bors in buying and selling. WUv Imyc creatures in the shape of men, wlj»seJfigh* est ambition is to appear in clothes of a ! particular cut—whose ideas of perfection are confined to the trying of a cravat or , the plaiting of a ruffle. But among all dit > ferent kinds .of pride, there is nono more . absurd than that of tho bully t his ambi I tion is of 1 lie lowest kind. The man wlio , resorts to personal violence to sustain hie , character or his cause, descends from ths dignity of an intellectual mid moral bein| ; to i In; level of the lower animals. Ho rn . ters on a field where he has rivals and au , pertors among the four tooted tribes. The , bear cau atrike a warder Mow, ...id the [ Jock-ass can beat him at kicking. Lei soeh a man “ bow to his superiors of tbc , stall.** j Painting.—* Dr. W., how do you man g age to ride in so fine a painted carnage I r asked Dr. G. one morning as be was re 1 turning from the grog-shop—* I have boon . in practice aa king and as extensively ai . yon ; and I charge as much; yet l car s hardly manage to drive the old one. Ii . coats more. Dr. G„ to paint faces than . . does to paint carriages ; und rum-color 11 II a dear painting,’ was tho reply. The re mark i* very true—it costs more to paint a [• fggg ruin-color, thun it does to puiut a nous, while—four. Turn._ i-f BUtemen in Religion Controvertjr— e The danger to which at the present tin* is we are most exposed, is the strength, am l- I must even say, tho severity of feoiinj t- which has already in some instances brok en out in the eontroversy, end broken ov or alike the rule ef common decency am . Christian courtesy, in rode denunciation! 2 or in espeeing to ridicule the supposed in consistencies of conduct or argument t Christian brethren. This is what’ etten w sanctified human natutft cannot belt, and wdtat is not allowable in the controversy of Christian with Christian, and. is never '• lawful, except where reformation is hftfKfe > , loss, and Sharp rebuke is authorized, and ’ answering a fool according to his fujOy ofivi joined, for n warning to others. It is manifest that our religious ported!- * cals, of the morograve as well ns the more ephemeral class, are not wholly exempt . front tho danger, and will do well to lose good heed on this subject—white soimo of them have already fallen into the deep and muddy stream' of editorial petulance and invective, of sarcastic argument,-and theological tale-bearing—embalming tho failings of good men, which it were qnito enough fur them to have manifested once in their narrow sphere j and giving to thesn a speedy resurrection and a tiresome pil grimage over the whole land for tb? sake of the castigation of the 6fftHd6r, nntf tftu peace and spiritual edification of the whole church; as if the eighteenth chapter of Matthew, had never been revealed, and the whole world had been constituted the tribunal of the church, and public opinion the supremo executive, and the newspa pers, attorney general, witness, judge, and jury. Unless a public sentiment sliml lie spontaneously formed to overrule such public violation of the laws of Christ at|d outrage upon our common Christianity, the church herself Will soon become like the troubled sen wurcii cannot rest, wnoso wuters cast ep mire and dirt. It most be remembered, that -the public character of an editor does not emancipate him from the obligations of personal meekness, and of adorning in all things thtgGospol of Christ: and that in bodies of nron possess ing godliness, the rights of an evil temper and a lawless tongue can never be acquir ed by numbers.—Dr. Beecher. From the London Magaxint. TUS ItERO OP THE PLAGUB. f When the plttgno raged violently pt Mar seilles every link of affection was broken ; the father turned from the child—-the child from the father; cowardice and ingrati tude no longer excited indignation. Mis ery is nt its height when it thus destroys every generous feeling—thus dissolves eve ry tie of humanity 1 The city became n desert) the grass grew in the streets; a funeral mot you at every step. The physicians assembled in n body at the Hotel de Ville, to hold a consultation on the fearful disease, for which no rente- _ dy bad yet been discovered. After a kmfw* consultation, they deckled, unanimously, that the malady bas a poculiar aftd myste rious character, which opening a corpse might develops—an operation which H was impossible to attempt, slue* the opera tor must infallibly become a victim, in U few hours, beyond the power of human i art. to save hint, ns tho violence of the at tack would preclude tlifljr administering the customary remedies. A dead pause succeeded ibis filial declaration. Sudden ly a surgeon by the name of Guyon, in the prime of life, and ‘if great celebrity in his Itrofessions, rose nnd said firmly,—be it so : [ devote myself for the safety of the coun try. Before this numerous assembly I promise, in the natne of humanity nnd re ligion, that to-morrow, at the break ofday, I will dissect a corpse, and write down as I proceed what I observe.” He lefl the assembly instantly. They adnt'rod him,lamented his fa e, and d oubt ed whether he would persist in his design. Tho iutrepid nnd pious Guyon, animated by nil the seMtfle energy, religion or pat r kit ism can flXptilft net* up to his word. Ho Imd marHedflnd was rich; and he im mediately madtfhii will, dictated by jus tice and piety. He confessed, and at mid night received ttie sacrament. A man had died in his house within four nnrf twenty hours. Guyon at day break, shut himself up in lh« same room; lie took with him ink, paper, and crucifix. Full of enthusiasm, never had he felt more firm and collected. Kneeling beside tho corpse, he wrote—'* Mouldering tenement of an immortal soul, hot ofily can I gaze upon thee without terror, but even with Mgr . and gratitude. Thou wilt open to me tho gates of a glorious oMUtf* I® discover fng to me the secret causa of the terrible * plague which destroys my native eity, thou wilt enable me to puiut out some salutary remedy; thou wilt render my sacrifice useful. O God !H continued he, “ thou wilt bless tbs action thou hast thyself in spired.** He began—lie finished the dreadful op eration, and recorded in detail his surgical observations, lie then left the room, threw the papers into a vase of vinegar, and im mediate I v sought tho Lnssaret^p, where he 1 died in 12 hours—a death ten times mow gioriocs than the warrior who, to save his country, rushes on the enemy’s ranks, since 1 he advances with hope at least, ana sus tained, admired, sad seconded by n whole Physicians who remain lirm m the d» * churge of their duties, while the fears of * their fellow cithwns are prompting them \ to fly from contagion, disptey that mor ’ al courage which Is at (hr superior to the * physical energy which sustains the soldier * in battlo ns mind is superior to mutter. •J flee. M. Wikb, V. i- eeamsr tmm Kcatasfcr, has f tatWa a stoke to Hm thalers.