Litchfield enquirer., 1833-06-27

 lute from the vessel, thus completing the and surely not unimpressive ceremonial, of placing the first stone of the monument"
 A late writer, speaking of this interes- ting place, remarks:
 Considering this spot with the associa- ton ot its being the place where one of the greatest and best men that ever appeared on this earth, first drew breath and saw the light of heaven; its being, independent of such association, a beautiful one; and with its proximity to the Potomac river, where steamboats in the season of them are daily passing from Washington to Baltimore, Norfolk. &c. it is surprising that it should be so little known and visited. Not one in a thousand of the passengers in steamboats has any knowledge that this ss sOlune ;az- ztGkes ss's lef llim whom tho world honors, is remote but mile over the water's surface and hid from his view only bya fringe of wild shrubbsry. The verdure is as beau- itifnl, and the dlowers as brilliant and nu- n1erous around Washington's birth place as his tomb. Though there is now no stated landing place for steamboats on this side the Potonacswiihin 12 miles, yet one might anchor in the stream, and barges of ladies and gentlemen from it, reach Wakefeld's shores in few minutes"
 VeHit's time you hGd.-Miss Sarah Ann Webster, of Philadelphia, lately communi- cated to tho editor of the Phila. Gazette, tho fact of her marriage with Mir. Paul, who immediately made public statement tliat no such marriage had, or was likly to take place. We suppose Miss Webster was ectuated By tho same motives, as Miss Ursula Wolcott, but, her efforts were not crowned with the same success. Between the Wolcott and Griswold families, two of the most ancient and respectable in Con- necticut, there existed a remote relation ship. .Ursula Wolcott, afterwards the wife of the first Governor GriswoId, was lady of superior intellect and accomplishments, and perhaps unequalted in the state for sa- gacity and shrewdness.. Notwithstanding the superiority of her endowments and the shining excellence of her character, she re- maiRed unmarried unth about the age of thirty. Finding it at length indispensably necessary to turn her attention to matrimo- ny, or become in fact, what she already was in name, ah old maid, she remarked to her friends, that she had como to tho eon- clusion of spending . few weeks ot Lyme, for the purpose of courting her cousin Matt thew. ,..e,,
 On her arrival at Lyme, she found her cousin Matthew, who was also considered an old bachelor, more disposed to devote his attention to his Coke and Littleton, than to his cousin Ursula but she was de- termined at all events to bring him to the point. She. occasionally would meet him in the hall or on the stairs, and after care- lessly passing him turn round and eagerly inquire, "s0hat's that 1ou said?" to which he would reply, that he hadn't said any thing. After several unsuccessful attempts to make him understand, she met him one day on the stairs, and after making the usu- al inquiry and receiving the usual answer, she hastily replied, X" We'll, 4 think it's tune yOu had" Matthew could not avoid taking the hint, and short time after, they became ono ofthe most happy and respec- table couples in Connecticut.-N. x. Rev.
 Chronicle of Olden Times.-We were shown leaf the other day taken from an old Almanac, from which, in the history given ofthe first barrel ofrum ever brought into Norwalk, Conn.,, we learn the estima- ton in which the primitive settlers of New England held the necessity and use of ar- dent spirits. An account of the incident may be interesting to our readers. "A packet master had returned from Boston, and it was noised abroad, that he had brought with him a barre! of Rum The civil authority, the selectmen, and princi- pal inhabitants of the town came together and inquired if the thing was so He as- sentcd. They declared with one voice /" you shall never land it on our shores What! whole BARREL of Rum 1t will corrupt our morals and be our undOing."
 Reading the foregoing reminded us of fact we had seen recorded in one of tho volumes of old news Journals m our pos- session, and which we imagine contains a record of the first temperance movement in the form of q ooluntary association ef pledged to abstinence ever made in this country. To the unfading glory of the Farmers of tho county of Litchf field, Connecticut, let it be told that as early as the year 1789, they introduced (and they are they. probably, who Origisa- tcd) the principle of voluntary associations to promote the disuse of ardent spirits a principle it need not be told, which is ., ..l. l. .s~n~ o.L tho onfiro |