Litchfield enquirer., 1833-06-20

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 His wife remOnstrated with him, and refused
 to let him have money, knowing he would abuse it. This refusal reused his passions, and while she was sitting with her child in her arms, he struck her with his axe, and with such force did he apply the blow, as com Pletely to split open her head, aud sever the scalp of his child's head. Some children in the room ran for help. and woman from an- other family in the same house entered the room, hut was forced tO fee for her IFfe.- Sherman struck his wife several blows while prOslrate upon the floor. In a short time three or four persons collected, and the nSar- derer was seized and bound. Sherman was fully committed to take his trial at the next session of the Superior Court to be hOlden in
 New-LOndOn in September. This is anOttl' ] CT dreadful admonilion to "taste not, touch not' the intoxicating liquor. It is blood, the essence of human blood IN HGU. P0IkGd.
 [Iftred and found guilty, Ienient Legislature will, without much doubt, nterpOse and arrest the arm e justice, by committing his punishment. A man who deliberately and cooy takes the life ofhis father has his sentence commuted while another, who in an e
 fort to procure his freedom destroys the life ofa sran- ger, is hurried to the gaIl"ws and hnng.l
 | LOUISVILLE, June 1.-Horrid Murder.- We learn by a private letter, that most hor- rid murder was committed on the l7th ult., about 12 miles from Hopkinsville in this State. A Mrs. Miller was drowned by a-negrO wo- man who threw her into very wide and deep well, at time when the rest of the family were from home. The woman has confessed that she was instigated to the deed by ne- gro man whom Miller (the husband of the de- ceased) had employed to commit the murder. 1 The negro man on being arrested, stated that Miller had employed him; although there is no legals evidence against Miller, SO strong ] were the circumstances, that he, together with the two negroes, were committed to l. wait their trial in August. A sister of Mrs. Miller acknowledged before the grand jury, which was in session at the time, that she had two children by Miller, and it is believed that he wished to put his wife out of the way in order that he might marry her sister. There was very great excitement in the neighbor- hood. in consequence of the high respect en- tertained for the deceased. who was the daugh- ter of a respectable and pious man by the name of Gray.-Herald.
 "The testimony ofa black Lerson cannot be taken
 in Kentucky against white man.
 HeN Gate.-An incident occurred in He'll Gate on Saturday, which, in the hands of him who has in the Sketch-book SD admirably de- scribed that singular strait, might be worked up into scene of no little interest. A party ofgen!Ien,en, belonging to oue of the numer- ous aquatic clubs that have sprung up in our l noble harbor within the last summer or two, were refreshing themselves after a long row, with their boat drawn up on MillrOcls, which those acquainted with Hellgate may recollect commands a complete view of all the in. a Nh of v,h he kO deals in fire has oddly enough conSlomerated about the very door of bis domieil; when in watching the scattered sails that occasionally fioated past them, dropping through the strait
 with the tide, the attentiOn of the whole par ] ty was attracted to small sai-boat with single man at the stern. The hestaiing way in which he nlanaged his craft, indicated at once that he was ignorant 0fa passage that re- quires the incest pIotage; while his yascila- ting helm at one moment carried at his little vessel bows on to the bristling rapids on his western side, and at another left her to sag midships, into the sucking whirpool on the east. His perilous situation was evident to the whole party on the rock; hut they were too far off to warn him of his danger, or to reach him in time to avert the catastrophe.- Every second made that more inevitable; and their only hope was, that by some providen- tial turn one Ofthe thousand rddies which cha fed and roared around the doomed boatmae, might whirl his cSaft SO near t0 the shore. that in the event of a'capsize he might yet be sa- ved. The expectation, however, was hardly formed before the accelerated motion of the boat in contrary direction, defeated it most frightfully. She had struck the edge of the Pot-and, with the velocity of lightning was sucked in by the greedy whirlpool. Her bow heaved upward as she reached the f0aming vortex, like the crest of a living animal in the agonies of death-struggle, and then plunging beneath the sufges, the little vessel and her solitary vOyager disappeared entirely. The party on the rock were breathless with. hor- TOT, when far beyond the place of his disap- pearance, they saw the body of the boatman shoot above the surface as if dismissed from below by a force full as active as that which had carried him there. The barge was man. ! ned in moment, and a skilful cox swain. with steady crew. winding harmlessly through the accumulated peris encountered by the in- | considerate bOatman, he was soon overtakeD. "l wonder where my hat is ]" was the first exclamation of this amphibiOus worthy, upon finding himself perfectly safe. The gentle men, amused it the fellows coolness, pulled after his hat, and recovering it to his very great satisfaction, afterwards righted his boat
 for him. upon discovering her floating at some distance, collected his oars. set his sail, and
 left him grumbling as he went again upon his
 way, that |" he had Isst both of his shoes iu
 that Idrnal Pot" The miraculous escape O this man oh0,sfd ha pusnw fC thnaO iwnn,