Litchfield enquirer., 1831-11-17

have been accustomed to hear the effect. Of this awful malady spoken of in the
 gross; but this does not give us so vivid a
 perception of the embarrassment and suf-
 tering which it canses, as more minute
 description. Such a description is given
 in alettcr of the Rev. Richard Knill, Eng
 fish preacher at St. Petersburgh. On day, one of his particular friends was seiz- ed--the next, one of his children--the night following, another neighbor, whoalso
 required his assistance, and watchful atten- ton during the night--the next day, the mistress Ofathe Lancasterian school,-a dreadful day in St. Petersburgh, among hundreds who were attacked, scarcely an individual recovered. He returned from her funeral, and found his wife sick. The next day but one, another of his children was seized, aud died the following night.
 While waiting to see him expire, sound from another quarter announced, that a third was attacked. At this moment, when they needed every assistance, his servant man became alarmed and requested his wages, that he might go with his family in- to the interior, and he was forced to dis- miss him, at the very moment the under taker was putting his child into the coffin. As soon as the corpse was carried out of the house, his wife, who had rallied all her strength to nurse ller children, sunk from sickness, exhaustion, aud mental affliction. He had scarcely reclined his own head, to compose his troubled mind. before he was reused witl,-" Your kitchen maid is att tackled with cholera!'' Next followed the death of another child, and the father was obliged to take his bed. As my dear partner and myself," says the letter, Clay bemoaning our afflicted state, and endeav- oring to comfort each other with the con sola,ions of the gospel, we looked around and rejoiced to see our pious nurse spared to us. But as if to complete the scene of our distress, about midnight this faithful servant was also seized. Now ihe house was turned into a hospital; and we were thrown into the hands of strangers.
 ' Thus, in the course of ten days, my happy, healthy family were shattered in pieces and we are attempting to repair the wreck against another storm. When taat will come God only knows" Such arc some of the details, of this terrible scourgc, as it affected a single family; what must be the aggregate of distress and woe im the thousands, who were suffering at the same time under this dreadful visit alton An American, Mr. Ropes of Bos- ton, was then an inmate of this family, and at one time the only person on whom they could call for help.-Christian Mirror.
 s From lhe Grorgeto,cn (Ky.J O6serper.
 aecumsek.-It q has been denied by some pfints to the Eastward and elsewhere, that hiscelebrated warrior, and, as he has been jns,ly termed, "King of .he woods," fell by the hands of Col. RICHARD M. JOHNSON. We have given in this day's paper an ex- tract from " A view of the United States of America" whicl, appeared in England in 1928, in which it is not only asserted that he was killed by Col. Johnson, but the rencontre between them, in which he fell, is miautely and accurately described. The source whence this testimony is de- rived, will certainly give it great weight, as the writer cannot be supposed to have been influenced, either by friendship or hostility towards the distinguished subjects of his narrative. We mark one error, which, we
 believe, is the only one of any note in the
 whole piece. Col.J ohnson did not fall ai the moment he Shot Tecumseh. Hi horse fell to his knees through loss of blood as he was approaching him and it was as his horse recovered, that he received the contents of Tecumsch's rife in his hand. Tecumsch then drew his blade or his tom- aI,awk, (it is not known which, and rush- ed upon him but just as he arrived at stri- king distance, he paused-struck, perhaps, with the noble bearing of his foe. Al that moment Col. Johnson shot him. Nor did a contest cnsue over the dead body, in which number of the belligerenis were slain--that contest took place over the boz dy of Col. Wheatly.
 Located as this press is, in the midst of those who were with Col. Johnson in that battle, it would seem necessary that we should, for the satisfaction of our distant friends, give some of the proofs upon
 which is predicated the belief, that Col. Johnson killed Tecumseh, 1t is admitted, 70 believe, by all, thai Col. Johnson killsI an Indian in the bat- tie of the Thama that Tecumseh fell in that battle. The 0nly question then is,
 whether the Indian Col. Johnson killed
 was Teeumseh. We have ever under stood that the friendly Indians who were present, pronounced, upon examining the body, that it was Tecsmseh. Of this fact an abundance of testimony conld be given.