Litchfield enquirer., 1836-12-01
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 AT HOME ON WEDNESDAY, EVENING FROM , EIGHT TO TEN O'cLOcK.
 (" So so," says to my wife, NJ desPerGa- dun should ever be the motto of an old Datcn- . elor."
 The Changes in the Bed otr the LOarer M'SS1s-
 Sippi.-The total number of decuraIIoII;a, I;. O-
 cut offs which have been made m .u Io Mic
 tion oft the serpentine course oi tie ti:'.T hed at
 sissip(Ii by the shifting oI US auo,,,'ted Inf no
 varioIls times from 1869, are coLnP:m m aost;,,a lncc tbon I9(l miles. The Channel iS eSIIU
 tod in tbe Grand Gulph Advertiser 10 nave
 hoon ,,oo,,Iarlv changing for ages at Ine La1o
 ~: tI, ,sS;IoS 14.r year. It has ProDaDly mus
 tn, o. 'a1snJ inc whole alluvial surface of the
 states of Louisiana and Mlsslsslppl, parIicu-
 larlv the delta of the former' wnlcn IS so Iow'
 Tho tendency has been towards the eaSt' pro-
 hahIv from the diurnal motion of the sum-
 Rv n direct route to the Red River, leaving 1 New Orleans 100 miles to the east, the Mis- sissippi might reach the Gulph l5O miles nearer than it does. The Grand Guiph Ad- 1 vertiser, from which the facts are taken, adds: Bends i,s the Rirer.-By cutting about ten miles, the River between New-OrleanS ana the mouth of the Arkansas, which IS l6O miles above, may be shortened more than lOO miles. A line ot 360 miles, drawn due north rom l N. Orleans, will pass within miles or Jack son in this state, and Memphis in Tennessee. From the latter town it is 720 miles by water l to N. Orleans. Grand Gulph Bend, m winch our town is situated, is 9 miles round ana across which gives the advantage ot Delng aware of the approach of steam boats an hour before their arrival here. Palmyra Bend ends above the one just named, 1t is l2 miles round, and only mile across, through which sluice passes in high water. It is but 10 miles from Grand Gulph to Warrenton by road passable ten months in year, yet 1t IS 30 miles by the course of the river. Vlcks- burg Bend commencing miles above, ana ending 6 below. is l2 round, and but 300 rods across, and was passed over by terry boat | in 1928. Warland's Bend is IA miles round and but 30 rods across.
 Neduction, Desertion, and dA,reSt.-YeSterday morning, MT. McGrath, street inspector o1 the 9th Ward, arrested in house ot Ill tame. kept by Mrs. Blanchard, corner of little Wa ter and Anthony streets, young, handsome and innocent looking girl named phebe Bed ford, who had long attracted his attention and whom he determined to rescue from ut- ter ruin if possible. He carried her to the Police Office, where she stated that she was the daughter fAaron Bedford, late ot Mor- ristown, N. J. deceased-her widowed moth- CT, now residing in the township ot Chatham, in Morris county-that she had been about year since in her mothers house, seduced by her uncle, her mothers brother, Lewis Whitehead; who came into her chamber at night, and persevered until he accomplished his designs, and some time after brought her to New York, and placing her in the house of infamy of Mrs. Miller, alias Furnnan, No. A Orange street, deserted her and left her to her fate. That she there was compelled to Pur- 1 sue life of prostitution for a living, and was sometime after taken under the protection of a silversmith, now of Newark, NJ., who af- l ter removing her to the house of Mrs. Blanch- ard, also abandoned her. She said her un- | cle who had seduced and ruined her, was married about six months ago, and lives m Newark, where he carries on business us | shoemaker. She expressed a wish to be re- stored to her friends, and was accordingly detained in custody to be sent to them, as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made.
 The offence recorded in the foregoing, is one of those acts of villany for which unfor- tInately the laws of the land do not afford an ample punishment. The infamous wretch, who could be guilty of so gross an offence a. gainst the laws of God, of man, morality, or religion, should be placed in position where he will forever after prove harmless to socie- l ty. The ordeal of the Cauldron would not be too severe a punishment for such crime. 1
 Boston Com. Gaz.
 AnoodOte of q dog.-Two near neighbors in the country, farmer and a tanner, enter- 1 taiDed great friendship for each other. The tanner had large dog, which for some un- known cause, conceived such an inveterate 1 hatred to the farmer that he could not go with | safety to visit his friend when the dog was aOoses and on this account the farmer loaded 1 tine animal with heavy clog, that he might l net be able to fly at the farmer. \ As The faannes and one of his plowmen N were going about the grounds together, one 1 day. they pereeaNed the dog apparently in II great dtlstness aud paans Ayang near a fence II as they approached they found that in at N tempting to Ou6np tue &enee, he had left the
 clog on fine other side, fke weight of which 4 had alm0at stranglsd hia. N The ploughnan knowing Fhe enasaity which \ the dog bore to bAls employer proposed to J, knock him on the head , but the farsnes waS
 unwilling to Aalll ahe Gneatus'e mshie6 he ktaew e was useful and valuable to his friend, aud ia- stead of hurting hlas he daseSgaged tue poor heast, laid hiM AO@n upon the grass. wateh- 7 cd hltn lNntl he saw he recovered, asd thaen 2 pursued his way.
 7 When he aetarned to the spot, he saw the tiog stti there, quite recovered, and as usual, sNpeeted an stttaeak. but t0 his great asa0atsb- ti'e'h tns eneSaape fawhed upon him and ex- pressed ms gratitude ln tue most lively Hsar- ? nef, and arom thaa time t0 the day Of his
 death attended the faesaer, aud could rot Iae prevailed upon to return to his former master
 Exee@ion.-on Friday Last Levi Miller,