Litchfield enquirer., 1834-04-24

lh had fixed on herself and them. By the aid l of cminene coansel. tho decFee of divorce } was speedily procured, and with the dOc0-
 meUe tn his possession, the afilicIed father once more sought his childss seducer; but
 now, he peremptOrily refused to ratify his pledge, and finding ala ensEealies useless, the father left hiu with this warning :-'.Yo0ng
 man, though your conduct proves you vil-
 lain, will not. without due deEberatiOO, hur-
 " you or myself into the presence Of aO Of-
 tended God :-I give you I4 days to reflect
 on what you have done if then, you still re- fuse heS satisfaction, you shall ace"rd tt to l me-" The two weeks passed without pro ducing the desired result, and oM the follow ing, at daylight, they met. The old mans eye failed him, and the sed0cer stood 0nharm-
 ed by his fire. while he. with more delibe-
 rate aim, added to the ruin of the daughter
 her fathers death, by shooting him through
 the heart.
 On the following day, the 2Oth of last
 month, the lamented old man was buried with military honors, having foUght with dis. tincttoR in the revolutionary war; and since his death, the planter has received a challenge from the husband. not-as he stated-t0 atone
 for the loss of a worthless woman, but to
 aycnge the fall ofan honored father. Four Oth-
 ers-relatives of the deceased-have followed
 his example. and it is to be feared that before
 this time more victims have been added to
 the catalogue of deaths, resulting from the 1 indulgence of an unhailowed passion.
 | BOstoR THausisr. 4 Terrible corning against Keeping bod com pGny.-Last Saturday evening, Mir. B0cks
 land, who is employed in the U. States Ar.
 mOry at Springfield, Mass. became alarmed
 at the absence of little son. about eleven
 years old. and made inquiry of a boy by the
 name of Elliot, with whom he knew his son to be in the habit of assOciating. Elliot said that when he last saw him he was on the road to Boston; but knew nothing more. On Sun day morning an uncle of yoWng Buckland, be- ing out near the Boston road. saw Elliott with spade in his hand, and compelled him to go with him to the spot where he had seen bis nephew. They had proceeded about two
 miles from town when Mr. Buckland saw a pistol lying by the side of the road. On this discovery Elliot refused to go any farther.- Strong suspicious wero excited, and search being made, little Buckland was found under the stairs of hop. house at .no great distance, covered up with leaves and almost dead.
 He was, however, able to make the follow ing statement: He and Elliot, he said, had agreed tO run away to Boston, and started about noon. They went on out of the vil. with pistol which Elliot carried with him. Esliet required him to put up the mark. and twice fired 90 soon that the ball whistied by him and being alarmed, he said he V euld go home, and started. But Elliot told him he would shoot him if he did. and treated him with great haughtiness and severity. One time Buckland fired the pistol, and it proved to have been so deeply loaded. that 1t few back and wounded him in the Esce. At length, Elliot having loaded the pistol. threw something away in the bushes. and ordered Ruckland to 60 and get it. He went, and
 when stooping down, Elliot shot him, the
 ball passing through his body, from the top 0f the aelt breast to the su1ah of the back.- He fell, and criedto Elliot that he was killed, and begged him to help him home, that he I might die with his parents. This, Elliot said he would not do. hut tNAt when he was ] dead he intended to bury him in tho ground. ] After waiting sometime. and finding hs did not die, Elliot went away. and BUckland suc- l ceeded in crawling to the spot where he was found and 1t being very cold. covered him. self with leaves as well as he was able. El- 1 liot returned with spade, Aut it had become ] dark, and he was unable to And him. On l Sunday morning, he returned, and syas seen as | above stated. The night was severely cold, l which. while it increased the suffering of the 1 poor bOy, staunched the flowing of the blood 1 On Tuesday morning he was alive. aud Ilst | able to speak but in a very dangerous cOndi- l tiOn.--N. x. Jour. Com. |
 Trick cf q PGinter.-A capital story is told 1 of Basici, an Italian artist. He had painted the portrait of young sprig of nobility, wish- I out any previous agreement as t0 price; and after it was finished, his customer upon learn. ing his terms took himself away, and neither returned nor sent for the portrait. Where upon the knight of the easel painted gratel over the portrait, and wrote beneath it, .s Im- prisoned for debt." An uncle of the young
 man paid for the painting to liberate his nePhew's face from impris0nment.- Galcry. Correspondence of the N. \. Evening Star. WAsHlNeTON, April 10. Mir. Adams, who first proposed tO sirikel out the clause for the additional clerk, gave us to day a very animated speech. and one
 bitterly sarcastic on the promised reform and retrenchment of the present administration. In the course Of his reinafks he related with | much huinor an aneed0te which isworlh pre. serving. To the year l8--, this cOuntry being
 ahNnt Ao So tO war with some of the BarbarY
 powers. . sura was raised for the purpesa Sf
 carrying on the war. Et was supposed the war | wonld continue only for shnrt time. The
 tand raised was called the Mediterranean