The Litchfield County post., 1828-01-10

'Aancipaton Ot slaves and vaSsas! They arc mighty ,dovcmrnts the political ehessbOard--aIiended
 iouiess with important results tO all who inte- rc.e, m them-but private individual of distinct
 iud remote society, thev attract attention only nat ,ral phenomena do by the blaze and glitter Of their appearance. In the humber walks of private and obtrusive fe where unadu!;erated feeling has op portuniy to display itself in it's native beauty and pr
 meval Ioveness love to wander observe and re- cord. hope there many of my readers, and more especially those ofthat class represented coming all perfect from the hands ofther Creator, who will agree with me in this my singular choice. For the enter tainment of such then, 1 have with permission tracted, from the book of friend, the
 following little story To my feelings it is truly affect ing-and despairng of improving either the style or the sentiments, present it my readers without the slightest alteration n the unsophiscated language of my friend.
 THE SICK SAILOR.
 "The dying man to Sweden turnd his cyc 1ho't of his home, and clos'd it with sigh" ] CampbeU. "It was on delightful morning in the month Of A. Dr, 1924, when first beheld the beautiful and inter- minable line of the Jersey shore, when the ship on ! which was, hove within sight of Sandy Hook. fine southery breeze waited her swiftly onward, and
 in short time she had passed through the NarrO'cS and entered that broad ana beautiful expansion ofwa- ter denominated New-York Bay. The distant spires of the churches in New-York city were dimy visible ] and the white cliffs of Jersey city appeared like specks on the edge of the horizon. Our gallant shin bounded gracefully forward, and each moment bro't and nearer to the place of destination the haven of our rest. The deck was crowded with passengers in all the gaety scene so lovely would naturally produce For many days previous the wea- ther had been stormy, dismal, and cloudy; the placid waves were as unrued and as calm as the qui- ct aspect of mill -pond----and the shining apparently with dying splendor. The tedium of voyage was beginning to be fetby us all-and the sight of and and the varying objects upon shore ap peared to inspire new life and vigor into the frame of almost every person on board. The laughter of en- ioyment, and the smile of pleasure, round the gay circle, and appeared to convey happiness to al.- retired from this scene of noisy mirth to different part of the deck, where transaction was passing at the same time of melancholy and heart-rendng turc.
 "Among the various individuals ou board was sick saor This humble person had attracted my atten- ton and enlisted my sympshes at early period of the voyage, by the meekness and humility with which he bore his acute suferngs. He had been taken vio- ently i'll of fever afterthe commencement ofthe voyage, which had amast terminated his existence- For many days he was deirous-and his mess-mates feared that would have been their melancholy duty to have committed the mortal remains of their friend to the peaceful bosom of the briny deep-there to main until the sound of the last and awful trumpet shall awake and re-animate sleeping world. The rage of disease however had been bafed-it had now left him free from delirium but in languid, enfee bled, and hopeless state, almost to prevent the possibility of recovery. Indeed his weeping com panons already looked upon him as being ofanother world-so feeble the tie that united him to this they surrounded him with the noiseless tread with which we apt to visit the haIlowed precincts of the grave. That he conscious of the frai tenure by which he held the boon of existence was apparent from hs resigned depormen-and that he did notfear to tread the lonely path of death which must be trod- den by the feet of every living morta the chaplain of the ship bore the most satisfactory testimony He on- ly wished to touch land morc-to be buried in consecrated earth, where the varying seasons would adorn his humble grave with flowers in spring, and chill and destroy them during the desoation of winter His heartfelt wishes probably now to be grati- fedhe shore was within vicw---his native city ex- banded her broad bosom to our gaze and few hours would bring us into port.
 "The inclemeney ofthe weather and his extreme in- disposition had hitherto confined him to his hammock -here had often visited him, and had endeavoured by some tring acts of kindness sympathy and attcn- ton, to soothe his pains and ameliorate his suferngs That these little attentions were recieyed by grae- tul heart sufficiently evinced by the gleam of pleasure which lighted up his sunken eyes at my ap- proach. His patience and suffering had, indepen- denty of his good qusities companion and friend made him an universal favore with the sailors and there was not an individual among them who would not have been glad ot an opportunity to shew his will hngness to contribute every thing in his power to the relief of William J.. On the day have mention ed, he requested to be conveyed the deck-hs wish ed to see the sun once more smiling in the heavens above him--and to behold the peaceful waves slum- bsring quietly at his feet over whose frowns and ap- gry rushngs he had so often trumphed. His request was compiled wlth-a couch was placed upon the deck over which was erected temporary awning; and two of his intimate companions seated themselves him in order to render him any assistance which his precarious situation required. At this moment l quilted the noisy and busting company of the ioyous passengers, and approached the humble couch of this obscure and suffering, but resigned and submissive n- dividual. The poor fellow was supported in a half recumbent posture, by the aid of chair and some p- ly earnestncss on the distant spires of New-York.
 (Io De contnned.)
 From the Boston Recorder Sr Telegraph.