Litchfield enquirer., 1836-12-29

CEngs to its mothers breast!
 Oh! who can utter half the thoughts
 Which breaks the mothers rest
 She sleeps though her babe is sleeping
 Achange-she sleeps !-her babe is weeping.
 The babe hath ceased to weep. The lark
 Vpspringing gTeets the morn
 Theres music in the blessed woods-
 Earth seems as newly born.
 AppF0ach the wanderers quiet bed
 The babes nsleep-the mother, dead!
 THOMAS C. JoNES
 OHo at the late election, polled more votes than all the New England States put together. Yet Ohio is entitled to but 2l votes and New England to 49. The Western Reserve alone, polled at the late election thirtyafUe thousand seUen Hundred and eleUen votes
 The fashionable ,uorA at Waskington-The Presi- den from the state of his health, cannot give many entertainments. The Vice President has just buried brother and will of course engage in the fashion. able parties of the winter Gov. Cass's family are gone There seems to be nobody left to make up the parties for this but Mrs. Forsyth and Mrs. Woodbury.
 Anecdote-"We must be unanimous' observed Hancock on the occasion of signing the declaration of independence; "there must be no pulling different ways; we must all hang together" "Yes," added Franklin, we must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
 0T ChiU Bains or frosted feet are cured by bathing the feet in warm water until they soft then place them in basin of cold vinegar for few moments, go to bed immediately and you will rise in the morning freed from this disagreeable and vexaous complaint.
 ODD TTLE-A temperance pamphlet in Boston is entitled The Hoe, designed to uproot the Brambe of John Gregory, of Woburn. By an Abstinence man." This is quaint the name of one of Cron, wells books, which was, Hooks and Eyes for Be- ieven' Brooches" ..
 The Girial ref,yns nf iha lale elecfinn i Tannes- see, give majority for the White Electoral ticket of 9,S42:
 Sly Joke.-A bachelor tells story int the Trnnseipt of two young ladies-both courted-amiabe and high ly accomplished. offering to srcp 1easx, and the negO tiation being carried on for some iime without even suspicion the part of the pares most interested in the exchange. The best of the jake s, that offhe young ladies actually offered boot" rather than not to have the bargain closed.
 couple of chaps hit upon the following expedient to raise the needfuonc was to feign himself dead to be put into bag the other and sold to physician in the neighborhood subject for dissection. The bag was procured, the fellow tied up in it. and at " night meridian" carried to the Doctor. The bar gain was soon finshed-the money pocketed, and the 
 when the subject in the bag began to kick. "Stop, stop," cried the Doctor, the man isn't dead" "No matter" replied he in the door way, "yoa kiu hi@ srhen y0u scant him"
 An awful and heart-rending catastrophe took place at Greenvile, S. c. about the 3d December. young lady, daughter of John Crowder, was returning home from neighbours, where she had been on lengthen cd visit when she met her brother returning from military muster He jokingy said to his sister, have good mind to shoot you for being away 90 long, at the same time raising his rife to his shoulder and snap ping it. when went off and the ball lodged in her bo- dy. He ran home for assistance, and returned with his father, when they found the poor girl in the last az. ones of death. The horror of such scene cannot be described. Thus has perished another victim to cul- pable foly.-Ib.
 Out ot lass.-Our venerable friend of the Richmond Inquirer admits that Col Johnson will be elected and pretends to think that it would have been great ca lamty the slave states if Granger had been chosen. Nonsense. All the aboitionists north voted the Van Buren ticket. and against the whigs. Ritchie howev. CT, finding that the intrigue to geta Virginia Vice Pre- sident, which originally was broached at the Baltimore Convention, having failed, is now content to swallow Johnson, "yellow girls and all."-NoaA
 A duel was fought on the 18th uis. on Hog Island, near Detroit by Mr. Richardson of that place, and Mir. Rankin of Sandwich U. C. They both fired st the same time, and MT. Richardson fel supposed to be mortalIy wounded The other parties fled so Can adas
 On Saturday week, fire broke out in the St. Law renee suburb of Montreal, which destroyed five hou- ses. Insurance on the property to the amount of l2OO
 The Schenectady Cabinet says .-"We are inform ed by undosbted authority at the close ofthe last sum- mer. that there was old wheat enough held by the western merchants, to supply the whole country."
 Quite Pafkaic.-At the fire in Barclay street gen. deman rushed up stairs through the cracking flames and brought down infant, which he snatched from the burning cradle, and handed to its mother. May the blessings of St. Patrick light you for saving the little crater but won't yer honor be good enough go up aein and save me barrel o -four what's in the pan. uyf"-N Y. StaS.
 4 Strict Constsucaionist-Som years ago MT. -, was elected a member of the Le- | gislature of New Hampshire. He was ve- 1 " genfiemanly, well educated man, but un- ! fortunately so fond of brandy and water, that l he was more or less intoxicated every day. 1 Al the session, he attempted to justify himself by saying that he came there sworR to truly represent his constituents. and he was satisf- cd from personal observation, that a large majority of them drank too much whenever fhev e0Alll net an opportunity.