Litchfield enquirer., 1836-11-17
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 From morning nl nght he will sing his song; = i+' l Now moaning, and short--pow bowling and long
 His voice is loud, for his lungs are strongo f1l5 | merry old fellow is he 9fc, r ,,,,.,-, *. | , Old Winters wicked old chap, ween--i ., iG I .- As wicked as ever you seei!. ,I -...,,. ,,. | He wthers the flowers. So fresh and green '+ v
 And bites the pert nose of the Miss of sixteen,
 As she trippingly walks in maidenly sheen !lna yi | fJy AWicked old fellow is he ' ao sf '9 2is.
 Old Wintef,sa tough old fellow.for blows, " ,,+'j - AS tough us ever you'll sec " 7Aas I9 HE'it''i He will trip up trotters. and rend our clothes,
 And stiffenour hmbss from our fingers to toes--
 He minds pSs a sss e ssiss 9t hs friends or his
 cunning old s tslIox s is }; Winter, they say, I'd oa He peeps into erevices day by day, t-'r ''' To see how we're passing our time away, al hf8 And marks all our dongs, from grave to gay, i9
 I'm afraid he IS peepng at me. sssgsg,, fla Chdfdcter.-There are cases in which 1t is as inl- possible to restore character to life 1t IS to recover the dead. It is a Phoenix that can expire but once, and from whose ashes there is no resurrection. lit
 Discussion of Politics principles and conduct of any government must be bad, when that govern ment dreads and startes at discussion, and seeks curity by prevention of knowledge -e0iseiu eaf | Equahfy of R;gAts.--The principle of equality of ysgM is clear and simple. Every man can understand and is by understanding his rights that he learns ry must finally seethe necessity of protecting the
 rights of others, us the most eectual security for his I own. et fH4gH. qG tsl.fU.t eBihat0 r8t8ag4 | Igaordnce- Ignorance is ofa peculiar nature once dspeleh it is impossible to re-estabish it. It is not originally, thing of selt, but it is only the absence of Knowledge and though man may be kept ignorant | he cannot be made so when once informed, X, g,ts I Arissocracy-Arstecraoy has an lnjurops efiecton the n,esel ard physical character of man. Like slave bowed down by slavery, loses in silence, it's elastic in the contrary extrenle when 1t Is buoy pp by folly. it becomes incapable 1f exertng them into rSSagys sa | greatly. Y. Democrat. 2sel .s''''. 2" .l'i'" I'|lao .d5Ha os --ssal ot64Gd t9 39o4 7t7Re William Gibbons-" According to q statement given to the editor of the Elizabeth City Herald, and published in that paper the conduct of the the l Wm Gibbons to the passengers was worse than that which might have been expected of highway robbers, their baggage shore when they left the boats but some of the crew, the remen particularly got drunk, armed themselves with knives and went to work cut ting open the trunks and other baggage which they robbed of money jevelry, clothng and every thing else valuable, and then sunk the trunks in the bottom of the boat: Even the dressing and other boxes be- aso broken % open % and T red of their contents Such
 was the destitute condition of some of the passengers (ays the Herald their arrival here, that they obliged to make a loan to defray ther expenses to | terl are gone off with their plunder."
 One of the lady passengers begged these rufiians to
 
 clothing for her infant but it refused It issup- ing amounted to at least or S5OO6 ''''1,L ','. Abs4,n M;ndsdness.-A young married woman iii Baltimore the other day, unconscousy threw her babe into the cooking stove and was very alice. tionately nursing leg of mutton Ap instance oi Thursday, may not embody much comcality, but has the adyantage at least of coming uery aaar lhe truth lady having some clean shirts and pan oi ashes I .o dispose Of threw the shirts into an and care fully deposited the ashes in . bureau draw ss, ,Sieaus Boat Incdenf.-On Wednesday, the steam- boat Providence made passage from Providence t9 New ork amid one of the most violent gales ot slnd that have visited the sound these many years. She had on board about two hundred ana TOT tes of her passengers suffered severely from sea-sek cde ] of tRrng 1 interest es' occurred winch may be | we'll to relate. 10 teyJ5 8JtS02 @hg W.+ ..3
 One of the upper state rooms was occupied by Miss MT. Ccstef of New York and another gentleman
 and the farther one the stern of the boaf by two re spectable young ladies belonging to Arlington in thii chanbermaid was sent by MT, Coster to the room ol Miss Clifton on some errand but mistaking her room she knocked at the door of the one occupied by the
 ladies just referred to, one of whom, Miss Hobart, la boring under the severe effects of sea.sckness ana frightened by the roar of the clements and still more alarmed by being salted al such a time by an un . known voice, sprang from her berth m her nIgh into the saloon, attempted to escape from the win Il dow which is only one foot square Cssa 4lal !. i I On getting out she found projection Of abont tw't inches only to stand on-beneath and around her wert the raging pillows of the Sound 1T she had released her hold, ihe pillows would have formed her winding sheet but fortunately she became sensible of the dan ger of her situation and cried piteodsy for help, when one of the gentlemen the next room hed to the res hand from his berth and fortunately she was rescued from her perlous situation, taken over the railing and again conducted to her room.. An incident better calculated t0 call all the sympathies and anxeties of
 In cOnseduence of the violence of the gale the Pro Il violence was twenty-six hours on her passage--her wood was exhausted, and t was only by burning the vessels handspkes, the seepings of her wood house and such coInbustbe materials as were at hand tlsaE she was enabled to reach the sNewsYork Dry Dock several miles from her usual place of landing The Saftinett Factory of MT. Robbins, in Granby, 1 Mas was destroyed by fire on Thursday last. A pa4 of the machinery was saved, and there was 1n' Il surapce on the building to the amount of S6OOO.
 l GPos1e BfiH Erpiosion-The pOwder-mill in South wick. Mas. owned by Messrs Tryoh Ssl Co. was blown p and totally destroyed on Friday. .Of last
 The laborers luckily escaped. having left the mill few minutes before the explosion The loss is est; mated at six thousand dollars. On Tuesday last the poysder-mill belonging to Col. Wincheli. in Weai Sprinefield and one of the laborers named Heywood was killed. He was thrown twenty-one rods, and [ shOckingly mangied. .trno9.i gAeenfleman in Massachusetts, few weahs ago met travelling caravan of rats half mile in length d IAt any man, on the Ath of March next. station hin , ae,,, tIs ycaV leading from Whalinaton City, anG