The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-10-31

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indications of severe approaching storm.
The air was oppressively saltry. Brassy
clouds were visible upon all quarters Of the
sky. Distant thunder was heard. We
were upon a wide sand-baf far from any
house. Opposite to us was vast cypress
swamp. At this period, and IN this place.
Mrs. II. was taken in travail. My children
wrapped in blankets, laid themselves down
on the sand bar. | secured the boat 10
every possible way against the danger OF
being driven by the storm into the river.
At eleven. the storm burst upon us In all
;ts-f,rv. Mrs. F. had been salivated dl-
RING her fever, and not yet been able to
leave her couch. was alone with her in
This dreadful situation. Hail, and wind,
and thunder, and rain in torrents poured
upon us. I was in terror lest the wind
would drive my boat, Notwithstanding all
her fastenings, into the river. No imagi-
nation can reach what | endured. The
only alternating circumstance was her per-
feet tranquility. She knew that the hour
Of sorrow, and expected that of death, was
come. She was so perfectly calm, spoke
with such tranquil assurance about the flu
ture, and about the dear ones that we're at
this moment abiding the pelting of the
pitiless storm" ON the sand bar, that be-
came calm myself. A little after twelve,
the wind burst in the roof Of my boat and
let in the glare of the lightning, and the
torrents of rain, upon my poor wife,.
could really have expostulated with the ele-
! ments in the language of the poor old Lear
i had wrapped my wife in blankets, ready
to be carried to the shelter of the forest,
in case Of the driving of my boat into the
river. About four, the fury of the Storm
began TO st,bside. At FIVE, the sun in his
descending glory, burst from the dark mas
ses Of the receding clouds AT eleven in
the evening Mrs. F. was safely delivered of
afemale infant, and Notwithstanding all, did
well. The babe from preceding circum-
I stances. was feeble and sickly, and saw.
could not survive. Az midnight we had
/ raised blazing FIRE. The children came
into the boat. Supper was prepared, and
and we surely must have been ungrateful
not To- have sung a hymn Of deliyerance.
There can be but one trial more for me
that can surpass the agony Of that day, and
there can never be on this earth haPpier.
period than those midnight hours. The
babe staid with us but two days and half
and expired. The children. poor things,
laid it deeply to heart, and raised a loud
lament. We were, as have remarked, far
away from all human aid and sympathy, and
left alone with God. We deposited the
BODY of our lost babe,-laid in q small
trunk for coffin, lin a grave amid the
ruslles, there to await the resurrection of
the dead. The prayer made on the oc-
casion BY the father, with the children for
eoncourse and mourners, ifnOt eloquent,
was, to us at least, deeply affecting. The
grave is on high bank opposite to the sec
ond Chickasaw bluff, and have since pas
sed the rude memorial which we raised on
! thespot; and Ispassed it, carrying to you
my miserable and exhausted frame, with
little hope of its renovation, and in the
hourly expectation of depositing my own
bones on the banks of the Mississippi.
But enough, and tooHmuch, Of all.this.
After this disaster, we found two excel
lent hands, whom we engaged to assist Us to
work our boat to the upper country. Little
occurred between this and our reaching that
country, worth relating. You are aware
that for the sake of something little like
q TFduXSluCHtS III tACSC uCsuttUly t0AluA mss -
have thrown together the events that hap
pened to- us after our return, and that they
have been already related under the gene
raj head Of our first residence in the upper
country. / remember being deeply in-
pressed with the view of the Missouri at
ST. Charles, after an absence Of two years.
Ithas been always most impressive spec
! tacle to me. 1850 80. 81
HoyTid Mssrdsy.--Mr. Samuel Sweet, of
Fayette, in the county Of Seneca, N. Y.
was murderedin the most shocking manner,
by his wife, on the first instant. The cir
cumstances, as near as we can learn, are as
follows: Mr.. Sweet, who was almost daily
in the habit Of getting intoxicated, had re-
turned about noon much inebriated, and
lain down on bed. While in this situa-
ton, Mrs. Sweet took an axe and inflicted
six blows on his head, laying it entirely o.
pen. She then attempted to kill herself,
but was discovered before she could effect
her purpose, and ID now confined in Jail in
Waterloo, to await her trial.
High Handed Vikiany.--A stranger
whose name we have not learned, made
oath to, the following facts the day before
q yesterday III the Police Office y That he il
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