Litchfield enquirer., 1834-02-06

furnish any instance Ot d StatshdT VeEtVtm"uCo' Tine situation of the person who had embark ed voluntarily and in the legitimate mode, was sufficiently alarmed, when left to the mercy of a terrified and furious animal. But what must have been the sensation Of the gentleman who, while pursuing the even tenor ofhis way" unsuspicious of danger was thus suddenly arrested, and, withonthis town free-will and accord,' transferred from his standing on terra irma to locomotive under railroad speed, and then, before he had time to survey his new quarters, hurled through the air with fearful velocity and landed on the pavement. Truly the man must have strong nerves whose equanimity is no! disturbed ny such an Operation.-Hartford COurGnt.
 Animal Instinct.-Witd Geese.-If we wish ed to stew the full extent of this intelligence. we could hardly find bette: evidence of it, than that which is presented by our Wild, or Canada Goose; the very bird, whose more familiar namesake has been chosen as the happiest emblem of simplicity. Never did caravan traverse the desert with half the mil itary order and precision, with which these wanderers pursue their way northward as the spring advances, and towards the sunny south when the winter is coming on. Every one has seen their regular and converging files, moving in strict obedience to the command of their experienced leader, who directs their course with mysterious sagacity by day, and selects their resting place by night. MT. Nut tall has related several incidents of these birds, one of which denotes intelligence almost human. A gentleman of Long Island suc- ceeded in tanning one of them. who passed a winter in great harmony with number of domestic ones :-in the following spring. if join ed party of its kindred, and remained ab- sent during the summer at a late period in the autumn, as flock of Canada geese was passing, it's former master was surprised to see three detatcF themselves from the party. and proceed directly to his barn yard: and on examination, he discovered that his fngi- tive of the spring had returned with her fam fly to take up their winter quarters at his res Pat.
 Another Forgery.-We have just received from the Branch of the Bank of Virginia at fredericksburg. that fraud was practsed on them on the l6th inst. by altering a check, which was drawn by the Bank at Richmond for ninety sir doltars, to the sum of nine thousand sir hundred dolLars, which a- mount was paid, and the individual who ob- taisled it immediately made his escape.- Among the notes are forty of one hundred dollars, and as there were several of this de- nomination purchased by our brokers from stranger, on Tuesday and Wednesday last it is very probable that they are the same which were obtained from the Bank. on the altered check. We learn that the forgery is remark ably we'll executed, and that the check is one of Mr. Tanners unutterables. The forger has not yet been taken.-PhiL. Ing.
 Burden Bedten.-Mr. Langdon, of West Troy, has already model of a boat prepared which promises fair to outstrip Mir. Burdens. While it combines all the requisites which B's plan furnishes for obyiating the resistance of Inc fluid through which itpasscs. it also pos ,esses the additional advantage of greater onoyancy. The model is for double boat, each hull 9 feet beam, and sos feet in length. shaped like Indian bark canoes, and secured ,y deck beams across both boats forming the leck the whole length. The inventor intends Q have two engines, with boilers of new con for burning anthracite coal, and is ,f opinion that one firing will be sufficient to .arry the boat from Troy to New-York-as here is a stationary engine, with such boilers IS will require but one fire in six hours.
 Salem O6serper.
 4 Je,Celler's assortment plenished.-The wife of MT. G. w. Jewel, of Johnstown in this State, q lady who is only four feet high. lately presented her husband with three little Jewels, all born at a birth. Our friends of the Philadelphia Intelligence: are inclined to be classical in their annunciation of this event, and quote Cornela. They remark, that the Roman Matron's celebrated observation seems likely to be plagiarised away in modern times {; but we don't learn tha, Mrs. Jewel made any allusion to the Roman lady aforesaid, when she handed over the casket of gems.
 Gold.-Thc coinage at the U. s. mint the
 last year amounted to S3,765,71O. comprising 97S,55O dollars in gold coins. e,759,OOO dol lars in silver coins, and 28,l6O dollars in cop. per coins. or the gold coined, 868, ,O0O dol. lars were derived from the gold region in the United States, viz. from Virginia SlO4,OOO from North Carolina 475,OOO; from South Carolina 66,00O; from Georgia 2l6,OOO i; from Tennessee 1000; Alabama 1000.
 John Ronde!, Jr. against the Chesapeake and Detaicare Canal Company. This cause closed at New Castle, Delaware, last Saturday af- ternoon. the 25th January. The jury were impanelled the 9th December, from which time, during seven weeks, the trial was indus 'triously carried on, with the exception of short recess at Christmas. The testimony
 was volnminOns: one written deposition a. lone filled several hundred pages, and with the exceptions and arguments arising on it, occu- pied W eek in laying hpfora thp iurv sINha