Litchfield enquirer., 1830-09-23
No. 15.-WHoLE No. 22S.

plant our constitution among you-but the tree will never throw out leaf. You have not the soil. There are, know. even in Italy, individuals of fine ability and gener- oas dispositions; but the people want the mind, the morals, and the habits for free- dom.
 They are graceful, clever, and unpur- posed race-a tarantula people; a spider bites them into frenzy, and tune on the fiddle brings them round again. But Iib- erty is no masquerade; it is thing of sole emn thought, noble literature, and lofty principle. Its birth is in throeS but if the public frame has been already weakened by profligacy, the birth is in madness or death. 1t requires us to be prepared for the stern est sacrifices fortune, fame, and life, must be ready to be laid upon it's altars. But those sacrifices will be made only by a high-principled and pure minded people. The nation of husbands and fathers must love the nation of wives and children, be- fore they will perseverngly face death for the honor of the one or the security of the other.
 Religion, honesty, sense of the sacred ness of home, and a solemn and haliowed habit of reliance on that invisible Will which finally fights the battle of the righteous cause, must be the principles of ! the nation, before it can valiantly and wise- ly meet the tremendous penalties of a struggle for freedom. Popular fury may sweep down old encumbrances but it is only to raise others more oppressive The headlong stream of public vengeance may burst over it's banks, and hurry their pollution down; but the torrent soon stag mates, and has only added the new poliu- ton to the old, and mingled them to infect the world together.-[Croly.]
 1he Wcozel.-The following story is told in Selkirk-shire. A group of hayma- kcrs while at work saw an eagle rising a. bove the steep mountains that enclosed narrow valley. The eagle himself was no unusual sight, but there is something so imposing and maj iestic in this noble bird, while she scars upwards in spiral circles that it fascinates the attention of most peo- pie. The spectators were soon aware that there was something peculiar in the flight ofthc bird they were observing. He used his wings violently, and the strokes were often repeated as if he had been alarmed and hurried by unusual agitation, and they noticed as she sang slWs shai he vale vMAleeleead ascent was proportinnally rapid. The now idle lawmakers drew together in close con- sultation on the singular case, and contin- ued to keep their eyes on the seemingly distressed eagle until he was nearly out of sight, rising higher and higher in the air; in short time, however, they were con- vinced that he was again rapidly seeking the earth, evidently not as he ascended, in spiral circles, but as something falling with great fapidity. But as he approached tho ground they clearly saw he was tumbling in his fall like shot bird, the convulsive fluttcring of his powerful. wings, stopped the descent but very little, until he fell at small distance from the party,--a large buck weaSei or stoat, ran from the body as they came near, turned with the usual non- -chalance and impudence of the tribe, stood upon its hind legs, crossed it's fore paws over it's nose, and surveying its enemies moment or two Gas it often does when no dog is near) and bounded into bush. The king of the air was dead. cov- cred with his own blood, and upon further examination they found his throat cut, and stoat has been suspected as the regicide un- to this day.
 A friend mentioned the following fact tha: came under his own observation. A light snow covered the ground, and he. while walking out to an adjoining hill, fell in with tho track of one of these weazels, which is easy to be distinguished from that of the smaller species by the larger foot print and length of the spring among the snow. He followed ahe track for some time for his amusement, along the sides of the hill until he came to the marks where pair of grouse had been sitting, when he lost all trace of the weazel and could foI- low it no further. As there was no ap- pearance of a hole he was much surprised, , and paying close attention to the track of the animal, he became convinced that it had made spring upon one of the birds which had flown away with it. The con- clusion is that the stoat knew quite we'll what it was about, and would keep its hold until it came to the ground again under similar circumstances with the eagle.
 Mag. cf Natural History. An idol may be undeiied by many acci- dental causes-Marriage in particular is a Hind r,f eounter annfhansis ar a Ratification