Litchfield enquirer., 1830-07-01

served but if h bs, will be by reform which shalI make # serve the fet purposes for which it inc rights, the nereh, ie honor and the feelings of alI the parts of the ConIedeIacy.
 Tlere was a time when an if about the Union, io the mouth of an intelligent man, would have-b deemed little less than madness or treason. Now it's dissolution as freely canvassed in South Carolina as though it was thing almost indifferent. Even such man as Mir. Cheves, whose strong mind should tenn per feelings notezs sgg, cannot it would seem re. sist tue infection of ts Atmosphere to which he has returned-and he too talks about the Union with an y-It would pain to believe that Mir. Cheves like another resident of South Carolina Dr. Cooper-who was for long time what Mr. Cheves has just ceased to be, citizen of PenDsylvania-haso one set of Opn- ions for Carolina and another for Pennsylvania vet assuredy in Pennsylvania Mir. Cheves did not take any public occasion thus to fling doubts upon the du- ration of that Union, which, while New-York and Pennsylvania. and the East and the West shall main- tain it, the South may vanly hope 60 sever.
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 The Poison Works.-An intelligent and sprightly youth of l6 years ofage, committed to the House of Refuge few days sinceSby his father, under pe- culiary painful circumstances His parents are res- pecable and pious people, who have by precept and example abored to train up te <lildren in the paths of innocence and virtue. But is spoiler came in the shape of The lad in question is one of four sons He was apprentice, and subsequently enter ed clerk, in highly respectabls employ. Aits. Fanny Wright, Timothy Jenkins & Cd. sssablisls6d their Beelzebub Insttute'' 1 this ciss Als elder brother became one of their converts, and by much entrea,y prevailed upon his brothers successvely to visit the miscalIed Hafof Seiepce, ins Broome- street. The tour sOns all young, soon embraced principles sQ Q61genial to those who wish 10 be re- leased from Esssraint, moral, religious and parents al, and the unhappy parents are now beginning to reap the bitter fruits. The authority of the parents has been utterly cas-, off, in obedience the doctrines of the sorceress, and other committed further illustration of her principles Indications were fur ther discovered by the father, of disposition on the part of feast of the sons, practice upon the doctrine of community of property without the seRksef the parties concerneda grade of moral i'm provsment considerably in advance of agrarianSsm. Under these circumstances. the wreched parents re- sorted the painful alternative of connng theirson in the Refuge, where it is to be hoped e may be re- cla,med from the path of gull. in which he was so early commencing his career.-N. Y. Com. Ado.
 Ott0WSC 3NUWeSs-1u yNAaSBAs chusetts, there appears to be standing committee " Oa the change of names" We have always obs served at the close of their sessions, long list of persons whose names had been changed by legisa- tive acts. Fl is singular, and, we should think, very useless practices and not only useless, hut at times very inconyenent. Men should not be ashan,- ed of their names. We do not know any good rea- son why they should be tn Massachusetts any more shan in other parts cf the country. And yet be-
 eve there times as many such changes in that State from year 10 year, there in all the other States in the Union. It is altogether probable that much of 1t arises from the fashion, whci, in many other cases is often the fruitful source of great deal of foIy.--N. r. Adpe,siseY.
 Result of Persererance.-On the Doth inst. boy tell into the river at Philadelphia and rope was thrown 10 him, but he was too much straneed to mo- tice it, and he sunk. Mir. Charles Champion ran to the spot. and nquiring where the I'd snnk plunged in afier him without effect. In . second effort he found his hat, when the speciaprs exclaimed it was of use. tie boy had been under water too long Champion took his own course, and the third time found the boy in water 40 or 50 feet deep, brought him up and saved bis life. The Philadelphia paper states that Champion long under the last time, that the persons present despared of his rising again.
 Molasses.-Mr. Secretary Ingham, in answer to a note addressed to him by Mir. Newman, of PhiIadel- pha says that the act reducing the duty molasses, makes no provision in favor of any that may be m- ported before inc 10th of September next
 A melancholy account of death is related in the Chilicothe Evening Post, of late date. Mrs. Eiza- beth Hicks, young woman who had been married but few days previous, while in bed by the side of her husband, was aroused by bite upon ore of her cheeks by some object unknown and uaperceived by her; at which she called to her husband, who gotup, and speedily possible. procured light but be- fore he returned the bed she received another bite in the breast. On removing she clothes, snake or adder, nearahree fec, in length out upon the oor Medical assistance was immediately called, bus wiih- ous availshe survived few days in great distress and expired It is supposed that the snake crepi up the side of the building through the roo and dropped down through an aperture the flooring directly over the bed.
 Sseaas- -boafs.-From statement recently made in the Wesern papers, it appears thar the whole num- ber of Steamboals buit on she Western waters from 1874 to Is29 is 324 at present running l88 to this may be added 15 boats finished the present year, and ten built in ihe East, making total now employed, of 2l3; of these 86 were built in Cincinnati.
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