Litchfield enquirer., 1834-12-25

see the editor, he was politely shown into room, and informed the editor would wait on him instantly. Like chatrd lion, he walked up and down the room during the interval
 lourishing his weapon of vengeance when the door opened, and in marched an IndIvIdo- al of the Brohdignag species, clad 'n tn'cK
 bite fuzzy great coat, tIs chm O"r'eo 'n a
 red cotton handkerchief, with broad OIi-skln
 hat upon his head, ,and most suspicious look
 ing oak stick under his arm. ''What might
 you want with me. Sir 2" asked this engaging
 looking individual. "I wished tO see the edi-
 tor" ' am the editor, Sir, at your saTwiss," s,"
 said the bruhdignag, taking from its rest his
 stick of about the thickness and size Of a clothes. prop. "Indeed!" ejaculated the Co
 lonel. edgng away towards the d"or; oh,
 an"ther time" " Whenever you please, SIT
 and the parties separated.-MOnthty MGgd'
 The United States Gazette of Philadelphia. says-On Saturday evening a man was seen to
 fall on the north side of South h-street, between Fifth and Sixth street. When taken up he declared he had been stabbed. He was car ried into the house uf Mr. Dever. On being asked who stabbed him. he exclaimed, "O, my mother in law, my noiher-ln-l law twas | she that did it." He was asked who was ms
 mother-in.aw. His answer was interrupted
 by the blood in his throat. but 1t sounded like Leatherford." He had been stabbed ln the 1 bit of the stomach with a twO-edged instru-
 rn-nt. which reached his heart. Fms makes ] the fifth murder in Philadelphia within 1 week.
 The body of a man found on Friday by the coroner, drew the attention of family in Southwark, the head of which had been mis- 1 sing for several days. The wife thought the body was that of her husband, though the 1 clothes were not those he had worn. fils tenants expressed their confidence in the re- cOgnitiOn of the body, and preparations were made to bury it with becoming services, when another female heard Ofthe description, and came to view the deceased, whom she re- cogniZed as her husband and described the clothes. She was correct-lhe body was that of her husband, Mr. Thomas Baymont, ofthe Northern Libert;es.-i6.
 SuicideS-A young woman named Rachel Williams, of Philadelphia, cut her throat on Sunday morning. Mir. Randolph Still. of, Plainfield, Essex county, New-Jrrsey, com mitted suicide by hanging himself. David Kingsbury, of Needham, Mass. on Thursday evening last, cut his throat.
 Steambodts Lost.-The New Orleans COu- rier of the gath ult relates the loss of three steambodts. On the 16th the Hoicyon was snagged and sunk at St. Charles, in the Mis- souri river; the Grenadier ran on the rocks at Grand Chain and sunk on the 18th; the Cit- izen had been sunk at Troy Reach, having been sna Gged at Anderson's bar. The Black Ha,Uk was aground at Shawpeetown.
 WiN Case.-A letter from New Castle, Del. says :-The Jury. after trial of eight days, returned their verdict on the 9th inst. in the Caveat Case ofT. Chandler's wiI! by which twenty thousand dollars were devised to edu- cate coloTed chiIdren.-that there tcas no ,ciN The ground on which the Jury rendered the c departure by tue scriuener aoho iOrOte tt, from the letter of tue acritten instructions furnished by the testator. The trial was of cOnside derable interest, and rendered more so as the argu- ment on b"h"H of the CaveatOrs was in part by that eloquent rhetOrician and ingenious lawyer, John M. Clayton, of the U. s. Sen ate.'
 Something aCorth Kno,cing g.-Some vendors of spirit have custom ofputting one-third or One-fOurth part of mOlasses brandy with the rum they sell. This does not lessen the proof or body of the article. hut enables them to sell it at about tsVo shiilings greater profit per gallon. The mode of judging the quality 0f liquors by the taste is very dcceitful. X false strength is given to the liquor by infus- ing in it acrid vegetable substances, or by ad- ding to it tincture of grains of Paradise. and Guiana Pepper. These give to any spirit very hot and pungent taste; and of late it is said some distilIers add tincture of tobacco. Hence 1t is not uncommon to hear spirit drinkers. speaking of the liquor sold by this or that dealer, say, "it is very strong and sharp. drank but little, yet it made me drunk as fool and mighty sick" No won- der. poor creatuIr-fur you drank tincture of pepper and tincture of tobacco enough to kill you.-1emp. Star.
 Convent Rioters.-We cannot hut regret 10 hear that the persons accused of burning the UrsuIine Convent at CharlrstOwn. have been acquitted. If the result of conviction would have been punished with death, we should have been better satisfied with the acquttal surely some ene was guilty of the base, un- manly act, of destroying the convent, and de- prlving poor helpless women, associated for charitable objects, Ofiheir home and property. Surely some person or persons, instigated by the worst of alI possible motives, have viola ted the laws of society. of the land. of good order, and that protection which is due to persons and property. by getting up a mob and burning the Convent; if so. how is it that no one IS to be punished-that no one is con-