Litchfield enquirer., 1829-05-07
THE MECHANIC.

community, who affect to despise that portion of their neighbors who-obtain an honest livelihood in mechanical employ nIents. We have known many worthy young men mortified and pained to the heart, by the unceremonious and purse proud haughtiness of their superiors-in wealth and impudence onlyS-crowded into the back ground to give place to idIers, and gentlemen at large, merely be- cause they happened to be vulgar enough to choose industry, rather than idleness and dependence. But let not the mechan- ic relax his praise-worthy exertions. He can give back the sheer of the conceited flop with interest. He can stand up in the strength of an independent spirit-in the proud sense of the superiority of real worth overStinsel and borrowed ornament. He fills an honest place in society, and it is time the true merit of his services was appreciated. It is time for Republican America to cast off these letters of preju- dice, forged by the aristocracy of the old world ,and awake to her peculiar legitimate interests. I he industrious mechanic may be ranked among her firmest supporters, and the time is not far distant when he shall be placed upon his just station in the scale of society.-Amsr. Monufac.
 A signal instance of the visitation of crime occurred in Paris in the fourth.week of F February. A merchant tailor, of Nantz, named Desbaqueres, married man, form- ed there an illicit connection with one of the young females employed in his estab- lishment. His wife, the mother of five children, committed suicide from jealousy and despair. To escape the odium which his conduct excited at Nantz, he repaired, with his paramonr, to Paris, and took sep- arate lodgings, In short time, he thought he had reason to suspect her f- delity. Enraged by this suspicion, he proceeded to her lodgings, on the 26th of February, with large carving knife, up- braided Her with the death of his wife, mortally wounded both her and a young woman, her friend, who interfered to res- cue his victim; and then plunged the knife into his own bosom. He was not expected to survive more than few days. A horrid, but instructive tragedy!
 Severity. Col. Montgomery. at the Cher okee agency, says he has received this or- der from the War Department, If there are any white persons, Indian Countrymen as they are called, in the Nation, who are known to you as opposing the government policy in any way, you will order them out of it." Itappears from the Phoenix, tha, Col.M. has transmitted this order to Mir. Stidman, and intimated to him the necessi- ty of caution.
 Great Mortality.-Thc Savannah Re. publican states, upon the best authority, that two companies of United States Ar. tillery, which were ordered fom Fortress Monroe, in the summer of 1926, to the cantonment near Savannah, nearly enc company died in the seasons of 1926 and
 1927, besides 7 to 10 women and children ]-and during the last season, out of los soldiers, who arrived on the 1st of last A.
 pril, 54 died during the summer and fall
 besides 21 women and children.
 The Retors Sargical.--At late exam ination of the College of Surgeons, cam didate was asked by Abetnethy, what he could do if a man were blown up with gum powderl "Why (coolly answered the tyro) wait till he came down again. "True, '' said Abernethy, " and suppose kicked you for such an impertinent reply, what muscle should put in motiohg'' " Why, (said the young man,) the fexons and extensors of my right arm, for I should floor you directly" London paper. Anecdote.--At the review of regiment of Rhode Island Militia, not many years ago, the captain of one company, on para ding his men, discovered s martial looking Jonatkan, without any lock on his niusket. Otherwise he appeared perfect soldier 1; gun two feet and half long, surmounted by payonet, as much longer, cartridge box covered with halfa side of sole leather, and cod-fsh's tail, which projected from Ia canvass bag on his back, showed him fo be " armed and equipped as the law di- rects for martial exercise se''-nothing was
 wanting but the machinery to constitute his
 piece of ordnance a tirelOck. The captain told him he must be fined for his neglect,
 Jonathan begged of. said he had . lock al
 home, which was within stone's throw
 of the parade ground, and finally procured
 absence for ten minutes to get it; before
 the expiration of which time he returned scith q large iron pGdlock tied to the brecci ef kis gun.
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