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


,.,.,,,s .aIl forth. intuitively shuns observa-
tion. and had not the season OF mourning bet
-. - -,s.ae1 In otliet and meditation. lindiS
.,,rled Nv The Earring, the harsh, and the
Welcoming subjects of dress and fashion? e.
Ho.O ahey do Miags IN St. LOuis.-A letter
gives the following description of a duel
writer was an eye witness:
"A Spaniard and Frenchman, who have
long been accustomed to trapping on the
mountains. on arriving at this place went out
to settle an affair of honor. The spot select
ed for the purpose was an open square in the
suburbs of the city. When all parties were
ready and stripped for the occasion with two
large Bowie knives ian instrument about
twelve inches in length, and an inch and an
halfwide at the hilt, with two edges, tapering
to sharp point9 and the word ready was
given, both rushed to the contest! After par
rying these deadly weapons, u guarding g.
plunging some half dozen minutesthe French
man made strike at the Spaniard. and sue
ceeded in cutting open the abdomen,so as to let
outall the bowels! At the same time the Span
lard plunged his knife about ten inches in the
breast of his antagonist, who Immediately
yielded up the ghost with deep groan.-
The Spaniard survived some hours. With me
the scene created the most wretched feelings,
of horror but with many of the spectators
it served only for subject for discussion, as
to which showed the most GOODNESS, and par
ried the thrusts of his antagonist with the
most skill in short, which showed the most
slight in killing his fellow man.
A correspondent at Constantinople des-
cribes the procession at the late betrothing of
the Sultana as resembling the brilliant shows
of the Arabian Nights: "At the head walked
fifty cystOphOres, bearing on their heads round
trays covered with flowers; fifty others who
followed them carried in the same manner
baskets filled with fruits of various kinds :;
fifty more with elegant gauze panniers, con-
tanning every variety of the sweetmeats and
dainties for which the Turkish confectioners
and pastry cooks are SO justly renowned; fif-
ty more with china and cut glass vases of pre-
serves, jellies, and sherbets, prepared with
the essence OF Arabian perfumes. The Sec
ond series of presents consisted of the numer-
GUS ingredients necessary for the toilette ola
Turkish beNe-cosmetics, henna, dye for the
eyebrows, for the eyelashes, the different
preparations used for imparting softness to
the skin, and the glow of health to the cheeks,
&c. The third ofobjects used in the BATH
The bath pattens were splendid beyond des-
cription they were of ebony, studded with
brilliants and rubies. The same proflsion of
precious stones was remarkable also in the
mirror, combs, golden censers, and perfume
boxes. The cushions and mattresses on which
the fair limbs of the Sultana are to repose on
her leaving the bathroom were Of the soffest
materials, and had at each corner tassel of
pearls intermixed with emeralds. The Mis-
han, or pledge of love, exceeded in magnifi-
cence, elegance, and value, every other pres
ent it shOne, to use the Turkish expression,
brighter than the sun amidst the heavens
consultations. The sum which, in case of
separation, Sayd Pacha settled on his wife,
amounts to the small one of 5O0W.
London Ledger.
@Y; DE-. HUMPHREYS TOUR. @
Heaths of England.-I have spoken else
where of the fertility and high cultivation of
this charming country but it must not be in
ferred that there are no waste lands in Eng
land. passed over several heaths myself
a small one between Liverpool and London
another between Liverpool and Manches-
ter-Hounslow heath between London and
Windsor and Bagshot heath little further
on towards Southampton. Nothing can be
more desolate in the early part of the season,
when vegetation every where else is in all its
glory, than one of these tracts 1t seems as
If it was nigh unto cursing, whose end is to
be burned'-or rather, as if it had just been
BURNED-SO SO1IlDf0 anu uItCTky SLCTlAO Is AUS
aspect The HEATH is low black shrub,
covering the whole surface of the ground, like
the whOrtleberry, ON some of our own pine
barrens-suffering nothing else to take root,
and, as it seemed to me, offering no living
creature the smallest inducement to enter its
gloomy domains. In the month of July, how
ever, it begins to put out small delicate leaf,
and in August it is covered with beautiful
purple blossom, so rich and grateful to the
eye, that it is difficult to persuade yourself 1t
can be the same shrub which was so hope
lessly funereal but few weeks before. Some
of the heaths seem to be mere beds Of coarse
gravel, with scarcely film of soil to cherish
the most stunted vegetation but as if to force
upon the most undevout mind the conviction,
that nothing was made in vain, they furnish
an inexhaustible supply of the best materials
for Matchmaking the road of the country
In some places, however, the soil is better. A
considerable part of Hounslow heath has,
within few years been brought under cult
walton, and the prospect is, that nearly the
whole of it will be ultimately redeemed, and
clothed with beauty and plenty. And as we
were whirled over the Liverpool and Man.
chester rail road, took notice, that the same
redeeming process was going on in the small
heath through which we passed. Nothing
can be more tenacious of the rights of imme-
mortal occupancy than the dismal shrub of
which am speaking; but wherever the pro-
cess of cultivation is seriously commenced, it
cannot long stand before the skill and persc
verence of English husbandry.
Moors.-ln some of the counties of Eng
land, there are considerable tracts of low
swampy land, called moors which for ages
were thought to be of very little value. Lin