Litchfield enquirer., 1836-09-15

eA----.-,T TsrAr1Ds AND THE MISSfONi
 HE :S.S,s American Quarterly kevieH, !o
 1IEes.s,,,I,er: gives the following deilgnu9t pc
 t,,ns of some of the Denenss WnIcu s.o s.:.,..
 ..,, LG[ Tslands have derived from AmericaI
 Missionaries.
 r,.-- .1,,, establishment of the American
 :SI:Is., ,1oTv about sixteen years, Q most ma
 tn.:si change has taken place in this people
 s r.1anv respects and when we state tha
 -eading and writing-aye and printing too
 nave been introduced by the missionaries
 and now extensively diffused, and that the
 natives feel the most intense interest in those
 precious arts, we have said all that an intelli.
 gent reader will desire to know, in order to form an estimate of their future prospects For these advantages, of which the grateful natives are fully sensible, they have been in- debted to Americans. Their curiously con- structed language, of more than Italian sOft- ness, was first reduced to writing by Ameri- can missionaries, according to plan origin ally proposed by an American, and by which their children and adults learn to read in vastly shorter time than it is possible for us to learn our language. They have theIr eIe' mentary books of all the most usefu! ana necessary kinds-primmers, spelling books and reading books; and among these we cannot omit to mention book of AFIthD1etsc, inc study of which is almost passion with them. and in the opinion of the missionaries, has done more to excite their thinking pow CTS. than has been effected by any other work ever published for their instruction. The Gospels and other parts of the New Testa- ment have been for some time in common use among then-the types set up and the work done by native printers, but of course not without the aid of Americans-and what will more surprise our readers, we have now ly- ing before US two different newspapers, pub 1 lished in the language of the Island yes, two newspapers, one on a whole sheet and the | other on half sheet, of the large quarto size, | and quite as respectable in their external ap- Dearance as the average of our own gaZetteS. | Our readers, we are sure, will not be dis pleased to have brief notice of these two journals, the first fruits of what we must call, however strange it may sound to our civili- zed ears, the literature of the Sandwich Isl- ands.
 In their $ Shipping List' an American reader will be struck with their mode fwrit- ing our difficult names. It is we'll known, that all the syllables of their language end with ro,oel sound, and that they cannot pro- l nounce the harsh combinations of two or more consonants, which occur so continually ! in the European languages. We according ly see our English names all softened in con formity with this principle; New Bedford becomes Nu Redefoda Boston is made a word of four syllables, Bosetona Nantucket is Nonetuketa 1; Philadelphia becomes Pila- delpia; and Britain, Beritania. The letter is one of the stumbling blocks; they cannot pronounce it, but always change it into or [; hence MT. Ellis, the missionary, was cal led Elliki.
 From the Nese- Yor1 Gasesfe
 Melancholy Su;cide--Mr. Peter Bacot, re- gently from Charleston, s. c, committed s,l- icide con Thursday morning, atthe City Hotel, by shooting himself through the mouth, with 8 pocket pistol. From personal friend of the deceased, and the testimony of witnesses before the Coroner's jury, we learn the fol- lowing particulars of this melancholy event MT. Bacot took his breakfast, as usual, at he public table yesterday morning, and soon liter left the house; he returned in about an lour and went to his room. About 1Qo'clock, ] gentleman called to see him, and went to lis room door, where after knocking several md requested him to call again in half an four. He did so, but on again knocking at he door, which was locked, and getting no lnswer, he retired, About 8 o'clock, the son md son-in-law of the deceased, arrived in own from Dobb's Ferry, and immediately proceeded to his room, the door of which was locked and the key inside. They communi- cated the fact to MT. Mather, who returned with them to his room, and broke open the floor, where they found his corpse lying a. cross chair, with his head on the floor.
 Mr. Racot has resided for many years in Charleston. and was Cashier of the Branch Bank ofthe United States at that place, from it's first establishment until the expiration of me charter. After the affairs of that institu- non were brought toa close there, (such was the confidence of fhe prnesSnut md n;vocforc, o1 the Bank) he wus entrusted with the wind ing up of several of the branches in the west. Having performed this duty to the entire sat- staction of the Directors, he returned to Charleston, and soon after received an invi- !ation to accept the Cashiership of bank in | New Orleans, with salary of six thousand | dollars. He repaired thither, but from pri- vate considerations, soon returned to Charles | ton. After remaining there short time, he came to this city about three weeks since | with his family, and had just been unani- mously chosen Cashier of the Morris Canal | Company, the duties of which he entered up- on last Monday. He remained in the office ! oi the Company quite late on Tuesday eve mng with the President, and on coming to | the notel, he told friend that he was very l much fatlgued. and would retire. He had | been quite melancholy for several days, but l without any assignable cause, and committed tnls rash act under morbid excitement, for winch 1t IS impossible to account. He wrote | snort note to Mir. M'Lane yesterday nor. Mng, inclosing him the key of the vault, and morning him that before he received it, he would be in another world.
 MT. Bacot has left wife and ten children, wno are at Dobb's Ferry. He has always SS S.sse1ne1 an enviable character for honor 6rs. Rnaray Ry, and was considered one of the