Litchfield enquirer., 1829-12-24

Eastern ShOre, the RappahanNock and tho PamOnkeyl From the fishermen on the ChesapcNkel The pilots of Elizabeth Cly4 No, sir,--from ourSelVus---lfOm tho great slavc-holdiNg aud tobacco.plant. tug districts of the state. 1 could not have brought myself to believe it---nulhinv could havo persuaded me to believe that the real damage, which threatcns this urcat interest, should spring from these districts themselves. And arrogant and prcsumr. linUS W 1t mny appear im mo, (thcse CD. Ilhets have been applied to nS by tho gen. ,lcman from AugUNa,) will risk my thing short of my eternal salvation on tho fact, lha. when tho people of that region come to understand tue real question, you will Ns soon force ralsbane down their ,hronts, us a constitution with such principle in 1t.
 AtcfM DCdth ofa DrWakaul.--rt Is not perhaps generally known, says tho Ne,s~ York Observer, that the bodies of drunk. ards arc frequently SO highly imprcguatcd with spurious liquor, that they arc liable t0 tako fro and burn like pitch. pine, when exposed even to the namo of candle.- l CHSeS oF this kind arc reported in medical works, and the following occurred no longer ago than tho 10th ut. in Le tington, Ky. Let the drunkard rcad and lremble!
 On Mondy morning, says the Lexington Luminary of the 18th ult., as two ladies woro distributing Tracts, in the upper part of Main-streot, they came to tue house of Mrs. Monks. The front door was shut, and no one invited them to come in. A black man standing near, directed them to another door, which thoy entered. But all was silent. They were about to leave tho house, when they noticed that the chimney -piece had lately been on fire, and on looking on tho hearth, they noticed a few remains of human being. On clos scr inspection, they were found to be the ashes of Mrs. Monks. Her body had boen almost completely consumed by fire. A foot, and part of an arm, were the princi- pal remains that identified her ashes, and marked tho spot, where she was burned most probably "a living sacrifice" to in. toxication. She had lived alone for seve. rOl months past, kept little grocery, ir which tho principal article was whiskey and for some timo hOd been in habits Q intemperance. Whether she foll Upon ,h, hoartI, in a state Of inebrioty, or in iit cannot be determined. But her end is q solemn warning ,o all, who indulge in the use of ardent spirits, The circumstance of her being 80 entirely consumed, can be accounted for, only by her system having become highly infsmmebIe by tho excess Siva use nf alcohuI
 FSeesiag QuicksiiUCr.---Tt is stated by professor HanseeD, that, during his tour in Siberia, in 'he month of January last, finding the mercury in two thermometers becoming stiff, he determined to expose a quantity of it to the full effect of tho air. Accordingly, at night, he poured lbs. in- to basin, and set it out. The next morn- ing at half past seven o'clock, 1t was frozen into hard compact mass, which he could not loosen with his knife from tho bottom of the basin He cut it like lead 1; and a first, as tho knife came out of warm room the mercury was still rather fluid where i was cut
 1 It is certainly no slight testimony to tn, enthusiasm with which in these days scien tific results are pursued, to state, that il an atmosphere where mercury was thu frozen solid, the Professor daily passe, the hour after sunrise, in making observa tions and experiments in tho open air. All the brass screws, however, of his in struments, were covered with leather, a the mero touch of the finger to the make, metal scorched like red-hot iron, and in variably left blister behind.-M Y. 4. 0m cng0ged."-The following is aI extract from "Tho Journal of the Toul of Lafayette in America" written by Mir Levasseur, his Secretary.
 The American ladies are not more re- markablo for their severe conjugal fidelity, than the girls are for their Constancy tO their engagements. At parties l have of- ten had young ladies pointed out to mo oi eighteen or nineteen, who had been engG- ged, and whose future husbands, one was in Europe, pursuing his studies, another in China, attending to commercial business and third dangerously employed in the whale fishery, in tho most distant scas.-- Young girls thus engaged, hold the middle place in society between their still disen- gagged companions and the married ladies. They have already lost somo of the thoug glMless gaieiy of the formcr, ,and assum- .l n sl;,lt e:,,,,, f sl,s, Ur.a eiav saf fha nfa