Litchfield enquirer., 1833-04-25
coon YANKEE WIT.

Ma; Jack DOwn;ng. .--Extract from his last letter to the Editor Of the Portland Courier, dated Washington. March 10.
 "As soon as Mir. Ciay's Tariff Bill passed. the President called me into his room, and says he, Major Downing, the nulIIfcatiOn jig is up. There'll be no fun for you in South Carolina now, and guess you may as we'll let Sergeant Joel march the company back to DOwningville. and wait till somebody kicks up another bObbery somewhere, and then I'll send for 'em, for they are the. lkeliest com pany I've seen since went with my Tennes- see rangers to New.Ogleans. And as for you, Major Downing, you shall still hold your commission and be under half pay, holding yourself m readiness to march at moments warning ahd to fight whenever called for. The General says must not leave him on no ac- count: but guess shall start Joel and the company offfor DowningviIlc in day or two. They've got their clothes pretty much mend ed up, and they look quite tidy. shouldn't feel ashamed to see 'em marched through any city in the United States.
 Ut isn't GAply shall have any thing to do under my commission very soon. For some say thereql be no more sh,ing in the coun- try while Mir. Clay lives, if it should he thousand years. He's got master knack of ipacifyiug folks and hushing up qnarrrIs as you ever see,-he's stopt all that fuss in 5. Carolina. that you know was just ready to blow the whole country sky high. He step. ped up to lem in Congress and told 'es.s what sort of bill to pass, and they passed it with out hardly any jaw about it. And South Carolina has hauled in her horns, and they say she'll be as calm as clock now. And that isn't the only quarrel Mir. Clay has stopt. Two of the Senators, MT. Webster and MT. Poindexter,gOt as mad as march hares at each other. They called each other hard names, and looked cross enough for week to bite q board nail off. Well, after Mir. Clay got thro' with South Carolina, he took them in hand. He jest talked to 'em about five minutes, and they got up and went and shook hands with each other, and looked as loving as two broth CTS.
 "Then MT. Holmes got up and went to Mr. Clay, and almost with tears in his eyes asked him he would n't be SO kind as to set tie a little difficulty there was between him and his constituents, so they might elect him to come 10 Congress again. And I believe some of the other Senators asked for tho same favor.
 "So there is likely to be peace now around the house for some time tO come. I'm in kind of quandary what course to steer this summer . The President talks of taking q journey down east, and he wants me to g1
 
 can show him all about it.
 Lomentable Occurrence.-It has seldom. if ever, fallen to our lot to record a greater loss Oflife, in almost our own neighborhOod, tha q happened at the coal mines belonging to John Chambers esq. at Tibshelf, few miles iron, Chesterfield, on Saturday morning last. The colliers assembled about 2 o'clock A. M., to descend the shaft of coal pit, to which whimsey is attached, when two sets of men wsot down in perfect safety; third set then got upon the machine, being nine in number, chiefly young men and boys, but when they had descended few yards only, tho chain used for drawing up the coals by some means got misplaced, when the poor creatures were precipita!ed to the bottom of the pit. distance of ninety yards; the whole of the heavy chain. with the wheels, &c.,, went down the shaft which fell upon the poor sufferers. eight ofwhom were killed upon the spot. The only survivor is boy, who had both his thighs and legs, and one arm fractur- ed. It was considerable time before their lnangled remains could be drawn out of the | pit, on account of procuring fresh tackling, &c. It is said that the boy is since dead.
 She6ield Iris.
 Mysterious ws.-Circumstances relating to the sudden disappearance ol young man at Whitestown, hare created much excitement in that town and vicinity for few days past. The circumstances. so far as we have been a. ble to learn, are briefly these:-
 A young man by the name of Frothingha nam, formerly of Salem, Mass. but more recently from New-York, came to Whitestown some 10 or l2 days since and took lodgings at re- spectable boarding.house there, with the in- tention of entering the Oneida Institute. On Monday he received draft from his father in Salem of about $70, which was paid at one softhe banks in this city on the same day as is believed. He returned to Whitestown and commenced writing letter to his father in answer tothe one containing the check: about dusk he left his room and the letter unGnsh- ed, and went in pursuit of candles, to a neigh boring store, as was supposed by the family. \ In the morning it was found that he did not return; the family, however, supposed he had found some friend with whom he was staying, and did not think strange of his ab sence until the elapse of several days, when the lady at whose house he lodged became extremely anxious that inquiry should be made after him, and immediately related the < manner in which iae left, thinking his absence ycPy mysterious 1t passed on. however.