Litchfield enquirer., 1835-04-30


 left her. He mounted his horse. gained the river, and in few minutes more was on board the British frigate Nulture. Short " at'erward, Washington was appraised of the transaction by the arrival of an express containing the papers found upon A Andre, disclosing the plot, and he then learned that Arnold had been absent from the Point some hours. He exhibilcd his accustomed calmness, and apprehensively said to La iayeltes when communicating the viilainy. Whom can ace trust n0sc 2 Wash;no,on immediately called upon Mrs. Arnold, and found her frantic with distress and npon tl,e borders of dis,raciion, alternately weeping bitterly and apbraiding him as intcut npnn destroying her husband. Si,e soon after joined him on board the Vulture.
 Arnold had commission in the British army and six thousand three hundred pounds paid him, the original stipulation for his treason. Afterward he acted in the most hostile aud vindictive manner against his country. He descended with fleet upon Groton and New London, and rava- ged and burnt those places, almos, within sight ofhis connexions and his early home! ]! Every measure was attempted to get pos session ofhs person by the Americans, and the general order was in case of success. 10 have him put to immediate execution.- He sailed for England in 178l, and subse- qncn,Iy sunk into such contempt and obscu- rity that little is known of him. After the Cwar was terminated, Ire lived in St. Johns. New Brunswick, and traded ex,ensiyelv with the West Indies, when he returned to England, and died in 1901, aged 6l years. Benedict Arnold was unquestionably a man of great physical courage and undaunted in- trepidty of character. He knew no such emotion as fear, but yet was deficient in cool judgment, and could endure nothing ilkc rebukc ar opposition from any man. Rashness and impetuosity were pre-emi- nent in him, and the insemperatc character of the father early matured the moral obli- qasy of principle, and strengthened the natural turpitude of conduct in the son.-.- The fate of MGjOr Andre was lamented by all, and his memory is revered even by those he sought, according to the practices of war. to destroy. The name of Benedict Arnold ever will be execrated in both hemispheres. Dr. Charming is the great apostle of U- trsan clergyman, and. inTibose dsys. 10, considered remarkable either as a writer or speaker. The change in his sentiments took place while he was stiil young and at that time the believers in his new creed were few.
 Dr.. Charming is not yet an old man. but. for many years, he has been consider ed, and has considered himself, at deaths door: it was to his hearers as if every ser- mon must be his last. His mind, however, is in full vigour, and his writings, and eY- en his eloquence. in this feeble and dying state, breathe an undiminished enthusiasm. !. In person, he is singularly small, and of the slightest possible frame seen in the street wrapped in cloak, and covered with clerical hat, he looks like child in the hablimenss of man. (Ve were struck, by the way. when in Edinburgh with his resemblance to Jeffrey, though q much smaller man even than the critic 0 the EdinJmgh Rsvisw.) In private con versation, he seems dependent, suffering afectionate his voice is quernlons ans low his step and manner marked with dc bility and, if you did not study closet, his hand and eye, you would never imagine yourself in the presence ofa man in whom there livsd spark of energy. He creep. tup the pulpit stairs with a feebleness afmos painfuI-while the congregation is hushet in anxious and breaihiess sympathy-sinks exhausted, into the corner, and rises at las to give out the psalm, pale. and apparent, quite unequal to the service.
 Il A dead silence follows the first sound o his voice and they may we'll listen---fol never were poets words read with such cadences of music. A prayer fellows low. brief. reverential, and wholly free from the irrelevance and familiarity common ir extempore addresses to the Deity. An. other psalm folIows--read, perhaps, more distinctly. and with less trenulons debilit, than the first--and. as The echo of the or } gan dies in the arches Of the roof, he rise for his sermon. His cloak has beenfhrow. aside, and he stands before his audicnc, ) the slightest drapery of a human frame tha T would serve to keep his soul upon the earth Across his forehead streams single lock of soft brown hair. contrasted strongly with it's transparent whiteness; his thin anC hollow features arc calmly and merely in. tellectual in their painworn lines; and hil eye, glowing with the unnatural brightness ofsickness, large. lambent, and clear, beam. with inexpressible benignity. His voice ihe most musical to which it has ever been lf nnf l0f fO Hsten ia first heard calm amd de.