Litchfield enquirer., 1832-10-25


 r. A Hintaafo UncleaR 7aUesners. six-
 foot kentuckian was not a0ng since traVel~ hng iu the interior of PennsylEapia,, when he put up, for the night at a Dutch tavern,
 where he was excessively annoyed by, those
 formentersof human flesh and flood, which time out of mind have been the peculiar ldenizeIts of unclean beds. In the morning fwhen the rest of his fellow passengers had paid their fare, 6uf Kentnckian stepped up l 10 the landlord, and in voice of thunder l Inquired the price of beef in that vicinity. E,as De price of beefg responded the half ! frightened and half wonder struck tavern keeper. tas H 3 .Isisg ssss M Es ftts4sas ei < 'Yss, what is beefa pound iii yourvil- tlage 2 s4saa9 vs sK asas
 ,.'@ Why VI tish. let me seetisti six pence 3 Here then, said the Kentuckian, take that,,-7at the same time throwing downion Il the counter silver dollar. ,l,ssa h.ss. s.8, Dat ! sandfvat isIl dat for, Mynheer six- tf0ofGr 1' slsssS .i5sfsH7ts tsssssNvass q Half of it $ for my bed and board d-Aahd I half oft to purchase beef!''a VI Y s>2 !. t aBeeffor vat ?',.ssl.t'1s als H9 qts7 slsssS ta For tie d-.h hungry bnes in your beds
 -7-they came nigh eating .n6 Up aliye--look ! here~-a,d here--ands here' '--said he, lat the same time showing tho bites and marks of blood on his face, arms and legsse ss
 Do you mean 10 insinuat6 that my beds
 are buggy r said the landlord stepping
 round in great passion. stE Nj 2f sesst
 z Buggy! !! to bs sure | doand that you 1 are but one door of. from being a murd6fer I.---had it been ,a thin sconsumptiye fellow that had slept where I did last night, in- stead of me, he would have been dead
 man before emorning---and to guardagainst
 sncl.ta catastrophe, II make present to you ef that mOney--buy beef with it, and
 feedsyou bugs every night before putting fany body into yonr beds sFs r $,
 Tue Dutchnian was forced to submit 10 1.-the joke--the Keptuckian all the while looking v6ercely at him in the face, and keeping us cool and determined asif it was
 a case of life and da death.--N Y. Constel. lrl ssy tsst .gt5ss N 4.=---.=a gsta sssa s@a@gat Es.G .sstF Frons tte Eaiabarg Rsviec. sssta I Mrs. TrOllopev was unfortunate in her
 sesearches concerning the distinguished
 men of America, tor America must be rich indeed,) when she stopped before she reached the name, of Daniel Webster.
 The following splendid passage is a part lof discourse delivered by him soma years lago at Plymouth, in comMemoraiion ofthe first settlement of New England. Oar spirit rushed towards him when first we Tread it. We read it gas we are sure llo lspoke it---thrilling. In returnswe arescoIl- (fident that he will ioiu US in our prayer, tthat his s' 'nlatfe pulchra fila pnlchfiOr,' ''
 may have long to wait for m undisputed hx.
 matron. parent. Empires wisely managed,
 start anew, and ouilive ths eaglea T be fresh blood of a. dvivifying systams from , ltime io time may renew alSeirfbeauty aud 3 lrestore their astrengths sAMsttrue Anglo | Americans must rejoice 10 be dndeceivet s in the prognostics ofuur decay. The En
 elish reform bill. and the interest whicl e America took iD 1t, arc a pledge that age : of generous rivalry may be yet before l 5 ere tho fatal day when the wand of geniai a Land the rod of empire are doomed t0s fal , out of our decfepid hands. '' It was 1ne !, given to Rome to see, 6tlher at her xcuills } or in her decline, aachiId of sher Uwn, dis ]. Itant indeed, and independent of lieF Con. ltroi, yet speaking her language an inhosis- ,. ing her blood, springing forward to com petition with her own power, and as com x paris0na with her own great renown. She
 saw not D vast region of the earth peopled ! from her stock, full of statesgand pclitical N communities, improving upon ths sulbaela ], of her institutions, and breathing in lfUilel measure the spirit which she had breathev ;, in the best periods of her existence on lIjoying and extending her arts and her lit ' era,ufe rising rapidly from political child 3 hood, to manly strength andindependencei , her offspring yet now her equal; uhcon- f nected siils the causes which might laffeci , the duration finer own power and dgreat- 2 kness; of common origin, but not linked tc r u common fate; giving ample pledge tliat | her name should not be forgotten, that her {, language should not csase to Dc used among meii that whatsoever she had done for human knowledge and hnman happiness, f should be treasured up and preseryeds 5 that ihe record ofrher existence, aRd, her achievements. should not be obscareds al- though, in the inscrutable purposes ot Providence, it might Dc her destiny to fall il iron, opnlence and spiendor; although tho time might come when darkness should settle on all her hills when foreign cr do- mestic violence, should overtnrn her alfars
 All has ,..xl<.e ss,kn \. rv III Ine~