Litchfield enquirer., 1831-12-08

Clay, he thought he was lily prepared to en- ter into judgment called Henry Clay that a cut, shufEle andidea man." Mr. JeiEerson's learning had made him poor; Calhoun, LOwndes and McDufhe :; compares the Tar if and U. States Bank Co two cat h0les,one for the kittens, the other for. the old cat. De- nOunced nulfcatOn. It was nonsense. Nat Macon, the wisesl and -purest man that ever
 lived had seen men as wise, and had seen some as pure, but had never seen one so wise and pure would cut grape vine to hang some members Ofthe Legislature; would cut one tO hang man that would vote for the white basis repeated part of his letter to Wm. Lee, and particularly that part wherein he spoke of his |" dear constituents, God bless them, m,"-and may his blessings never descend on me, when cease to pray for blessings on my old constituents.
 You may have Sir Isaac Newton for your ploughman, and Lord Chatham for his lead CT of your hoes, and your land will get worse ! and worse, if you plough up and down hill. Housekeepers voters they live out of your corn crib and my meat house their wives " toll not neither do they spin"- their daugh- ters here he made an insinuation too gross for repetition and such would have excited the l indignation of any other constituents but Mir.
 RandOlph's. English peasantry; wretched condition
 Scotch peasartry the most yirtuous and intel Iigent in the world. We understand that an important improve ment has been made in the progress of tan 1 hing. by which considerable labor is saved to the manufacturer, and what is of more copse- quence to the consumer, the quantity of the { leather greatly enhanced. It consists in pre-
 pairing the hides for the reception of the bark,
 without the aid of lime, which has hitherto
 been deemed an indispensable concomitant, 1 This Is effected by what is technically called
 the cold sweating progress which is said
 to be less llable to injure the leather than the.
 old mode, weighs heavier, and wears much
 longer. The patentees are Messrs. Shove &
 Hunt.-CatskW Recorder.
 The "sw eating process" is, we believe. no
 ne" thing; for we have repeatedly been told 1 that our tanners have lately adopted som.
 boiling process, by which the raw hide is con
 vertcd into leather in few hours after it
 leaves the slaughtcr-and the shoemak CTS in- l form us that this is the reason why the leath-
 CT breaks now more than formerly, and the
 wearers arc obliged tO undergo the sveating-
 process of purchasing double the amount of
 boots and shoes that they did in ollen time.
 when men were honestly. H. Reg. ] Eight Missionaries, with their wives,
 physician and wife. and printer. were to em-
 bark at New Bedford for the Sandwich IsI-
 ands. on Tuesday or Wednesday of last eek. l Twelve years ago the Sandwich Islanders had
 no written language. now they have printed
 % distinct books, have 900 schools, and 5O.- 900 learners-a wonderful re, olution indeed. ] ". Haven Adr. 1 Shocking Murder.-We- learn, says the
 North Carolina Spectator of the nineteenth in 1 stant, that "James Murphy, sen. Esq.. one of the most wealthy and respectable citizens of Burke county. was lately murdered in most 1 barbarOus and shocking manner, by Tistlale Spencer, one of his tenants. Having disa- greed in a settlement attempted to be made
 by them. Spencer requested Mr. Murphy to come to his house at particular day; which
 he did, in company 0fseveral other gentlemen. After some conversation on the subject, Spen- cer proposed that they should retire 10 some other place and settle alone. and led the way to his stack yard. d.where he had his rife con ceaied. Suspecting no danger, none of the persons in company with Mr. Murphy had noticed in what direction they had retired, m- tii the discharge Of the gun, or the cry of some one near the house. that Spencer had struck him. alarmed them. They hastened to his relief, but had only time to see Spencer, who it seems had left him. return and aim anoth- CT blow, and then make his escape. Upon reaching the spot, Mir. Murphy was found prostrated. his head shockingIy mangled and bleeding; he died in few hours after"
 Fayetteville Sufere,s.-The whole amount received from all parts of the Union for the relief Of the Fay eueve sufferers was $92,297 s8. The following are the amounts from the different states aad territories
 Massac chuset,s $l45l8 69 Dist. Columba s870 m Ma'ne l23 00 Virginia 8,040 G3 Rhode Island 2067 6i North Carolina Il 4C6 34 N. Hampshire 290 % South Carolina 9.lOO 37 Connecticut 3002 40 Georgia IO2 70 New-York 10648 54 Tennessee 45 m Pennsylvania 12,73l co Ohio lI58 O2 New Jersey 805 49 Mississippi lIf9 50 Maryland 6S2O 79 Louisiana 5.O5O co H'gh'9ny Ro66ery-On the 18th inst. about nine o'clock in the evening, in Dorchester Mir. Sullivan Davenport, who was riding alone in chaise was stopped by '~o footpads of whom seized his bri- dc, while the other, IrishInan stepped into the