Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1836-07-07

cultivated, 70 reward their owners hundred
fold and how many thousand beds OF rich
vegetable manure are there, which the pro-
prietors have never dreamed Of, and from
which they might, with very little expense,
restore their exhausted uplands. How lamen-
Starving upon fifty acres of sand and gravel,
wnen they might just go down into their own
moors' and grow rich upon tsceMty acres.
Engash DOacns-These are large, open
and elevated plains, where the soil is general
" light, and there is little or no cultivation.
They are devoted chiefly to pasturaee and
sporting. Immense numbers of sheep are
kept upon the more healthy portions of these
extensive table lands, and judging from their
appearance, they thrive extremely well there.
To me there is something highly picturesque
II was going to say romantic-in passing
over the high downs, as we approached the
Scottish border from Newcastle, and saw a
hundred flocks sprinkled over the hills, as far
as the eye could reach, under their respective
shepherds. Pastoral simplicity, innocence and
peace! What magic is there in these associ-
atoms of early childhood, as they come
thronging upon the mind, under such circum-
stances, even in the decline of life! Your
ripper experience and observation may have
told you better-your sober Judgment may
convince you that it is chiefly poetry. But
no matter. The witchery of pastoral ballads
will again come over the soul, and hold you
spell bound as when they lulled you to sleep
and brought sweet dreams to your pillow in
the nursery. .
Though there is but little wood growing on
the downs, there is, in some parts, a consid-
cradle growth of fiwze and underbrush. The
furze springs up in a great number of stalks,
from one root, somewhat like our current
bush. 1t is thickly covered, quite down to
the ground, with long narrow leaf, resem.
bling the spruce in shape and color. 1t grows
to the height of four or five feet, and bears a
beautiful yellow blossom. We should con-
slider few punches of it highly ornamental
in our gardens; and took notice, that here
and there clump was left or planted in the
pleasure grounds of England. l saw large
patches, or rather fields of it, growing so
thick and rank, as to be almost impervious ;
and where it once takes possession OF the hill
side in this manner, it is quite as exclusive
and inveterate as the heath itself.
Serious Rail Road Disaster.-The two trains
of Cars from Boston and from Dedham, came
in violent collision with each other at about
II O'Clock, on Wednesday morning, at or
near Roxbury, by which accident, fifteen or
twenty passengers were iniured-somc of
them seriously. The Massachusetts, left Pro-
violence in five or ten minutes after the arri-
val ofthe Boston train with the news, and we
are of course unable to obtain any of the par
ticulars.
P.S.-We have seen gentleman who con-
versed with one of the passengers in the train
i'm which the accident occurred, and learn
that the front car was filled with Sailors,
some of whom were dreadfully mangled.-
Lieut.. Russ of the Navy, had his leg smash
ed off near his body, and probably expired
shortly after. 1t was supposed that at least
five or six would die of their wounds. The
accident occurred at the corner near the old
fremont Hotel, and was entirely the result
of carelessness and neglect on the part of the
conductor of the Boston train, whose duty it
was to have waited at the turn out" east of
the place where the accident happened until
the Dedham train arrived and passed. At
the place where the trains came in contact,
owing to turn in the road, neither. could see
the other until within about eighty yards, and
of course it was impossible to prevent the col
lision, or even materially to lessen the velo-
city of the cars in that distance. The force
with which they met is said to have been ap-
palling, and almost crushed to atoms the en-
gines and forward cars.-N. Y. Courier.
ii From the Alexandria Gazette.
On Monday, the bills for the admission of
the Territories of Michigan and Arkansas
passed the House of Representatives, having
previously passed the Senate and, being now
signed by the President, have become laws.
Two new sovereign and independent States
are therefore joined to the Confederacy. 1t
is thus that the galaxy of American glory is
frightened, and that star after star is added
to that brilliant constellation which is the
pride of the Western World. Our happiness
and privilege it is to increase in national
greatness, by the mild arts of peace and the
progressive effects of industry and popula-
ton. It is not by desperate contests and the
desolating movements of armies that we ex-
tend our boundaries and obtain strength and
power. Nor is the glory of our flag height
ened by the record of such events in our ma
tional history. No! every star that glitters
and spangles the azure of our political tirma-
ment sheds the beams of peace alone-from
the moment it took it's station there down to
the present hour. Long may it SO continue
Forever may the banner of our country con-
tinue to wave, not a stripe erased nor star
obliterated, but rather with still increasing
effulgence, over
"The land Of the free and the home Of the brave
Extract of a letter, dated Columbus, June II /:
"A runior has reached this place, that a
battle was fought yesterday morning by L.
600 men under Gen. Moore, from Alabama,
with about !, 200 Indians on the Alabama side,
about 35 miles below or southwest of this
place. It was known that Gen. Moore with
his army left Fort Wilkinson for that pur-
pose, and expected to encounter the enemy
yesterday morning that considerable fir
ing was heard in the direction where the In
dams were encamped. The anxiety to hear
the result is very great, Ifany news arrives