The Litchfield County post., 1828-01-10
From the 'Calisnan.
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"iI' hd'i i'IfpCus"u TOT nls tIien0 q StuatiOn in tie service If the East India Company, & 1 was put to unproitable expense by misread- ing an epiStle, in which the latter rndcavoretl [" express his gratitude. Having, " said the the absentee, been thus placed in post where aDl sure of d regular salary, and have if m my power, while l enjoy health, to lay up something every year to provide for the future, am not unmindful of my benefactor, and mean soon to send you an Equiralent." Such a rascay hand did this grateful Indian write that the gentleman thought he meant soon to send him an elephant. He erected a large out-house for the nnwiedIy pet; but never got any thing to put in it, except lit- tle pot of sweet meats, and an additional bun de of compliments.
 Few who read the newspapers have not seen an anecdote of an amateur of queer an imals, who sent an order. to Africa for taco monkeys. The word two. as he wrote it. so much resemhicd the figures 100. that his lit evaI and sin%ic-mnded agent was somewhat perplaXed ia executing this commisson, which compelled him to make war upon the whole nation. And great was the Naturasts sur prise and perplexity vhen he received let ter Informing him in mercantile phraseoIogy, that 90 monkeys had been shipped, as per copy of the bill of lading enclOsed, and that hls correspondent hoped to be able to exe- cute the rest of the order in time for the next vessel.
 1 Many, too, must have read a story which appeared in the English newspapers, few months since, of the distressful predicanent
 into which poor fsherman's wife was thrown, by the receipt of a letter from her husband, who had been absent from home, with several of his brothers, beyond the or dinary time. The honest man stated in pis- Catoral phrase, the cause of his detention, & what luck he had met with in fishing. But the conclusion of his bulletin, as spelled by his loved anphIbous helpmatc, was as fol- lows: T AM NO MoREn The poor woman ga zed for while on this fatal official iatelIi- gence of her husbands demise, and then on her eleven tatherless children; and the: she burst into paroxysm of clamorous sorrow, which drew around her the consorts of sev- enteen other fishermen, who hat departed in company with the deceased man. None of them could read: but they caught from the widows broken lamentations the contents of | the supernatural postscript; and taking it for granted that they had all been served in the same manner by the treacherous element, | they all lifted up their voices, and the corners of their aprons, and made an uulation wor- | thy of so many mermaids. h the words of the poet, they made "'igh water in the sea-" on whose margin they stood; when one of the overseeps of the poor, who came to the spot, alarmed by the rumor that the Parish was likely to be burthened with eighteen new widows and an hundred and odd orphans, snatched the letter from the weeping Thetis, and silenced the grief of the company, by making out its conclusion correctly, which was, "I odd no more."
 | There $ memorable passage in our an- nals, which must be familiar to those who have read the old chronicles and records of our early colonial history. l allude to the consternation into which the General Court of the Massachusetts and their associated settlements were thrown, when their clerk read to them a letter from worthy divine, purporting, that he addresses them, not as magistrates, but as a set of IndiGn deviLs. The horror stricken officer paused in his pre-
 lection, aghast as was the clerk in England, -fJr whose proper psalm wag had substi- tuted Chevy Chaser when he came to the words 'woful hunting.' He looked at the manuscript again, aDd after thorough exam ination, exclaimed, "yea !! it is Indian Devils" A burst of indignation from the grave Sanhe- drim, long, loud, and deep, followed ths de- cIaration. They would all have better broo- : ked to have been called by the name of Bap- fists, Papists, or any nther pestilent heretics, than to be branded as the very heather, n,whom they had themselves never scrupled to com pment by calling them children of BeeZe- bub. If remember aright, the venerable Gotten Mariner notes, in his biographies of the eminent dvnes of his day, that the inno- cent offender was. in this instance, roughly handled by the secular arm of justice, for in- sultng the dignitaries botIi of church and State, before he had opportunity of con,ln- cing his brother dignitaries that the offensive epthrt. indian Depiis wassa pure mistake in their manner of reading his epistIe; inasmuch as he had meant to employ the more harmless phrase. Individuais. @pThe apology was ae- cePted though observe that the latter word is, at present, deemed impolitc, if not ac- tionable in Kentucky; and is as provoking to d citizeo of that State, as it was 10 dame Quickly to be called woman.
 knew gentleman who would have been very well pleased 10 have received lucrative appointment, in a certain State of the Union; because his patrimony was nought, and his professional profits. to speak mathematical Iy, were less. His joy was unhounded, there fore. on reading a letter from very great man, who wrote a very little and very had hand, responsive to his application for the post which he coveted. He declphered enough of 1 the letter to make out that many were solic- iting the station for which he had applied, & l that his testimonials had heon reca;v.ad R,,t