Litchfield enquirer., 1837-08-24


 in office and well paid for his services, dare to presume upon his former popularity tO dictate to us by his opinions and notions what we should do, when it can be seen with out spectacles he has made gross mistake, and, like the fox that lost his tail in the trap, now wants all of us to cut off our tails, so as to cover his mistake. If such things are to be, and we are slaves to fall in- to these notions, then for one say, I'll scrape off the names of the Two Pollies of Dow ningville," and paint on her stran "The Mig ger ot Araby"-and any man who wears collar may command her.
 Fellow Citizens-I aint in the humor i,lSf now to tell you the fatal error you are la- boring under. am one of yourselves, beat en down, shlpwrecked, and humbugged- almost ashamed to say how it has ali come ! about as It has-because in telling vou the. story, tell it to all creation, and that is what l don't like. would rather keep our fam. fly quarrels within the walls of the old home stead and that is the reason, when I was abroad and among foreigners, heard them talking about and reading aloud the Globe and other official papers containing matters l was ashamed of, would say hot Globe" was published away down in South Ameri- ca, and that the folks there were all koun- terfeit Americans-they had papers and ed- itors and towns all called after our own, and there warnt no dependence to be put in 'em.
 Bnt as said jest now, we are in scrape, ana mean to try-as good citizen, loving my country and every useful class of citizens in it, as man should-to get us out of it.- We are all ashore, jest as the Two Pollies'' is-but we have not gone to pieces vet. nor she mother, and don't think we shall but this depends on ourselves. I have known pilots in my day run ship on shore, and to kiver his mistake, wish every other pilot would do the same thing. Ihave seen cook spoil a whole pot of broth, and when turn- ed out. laugh in his sleeve to see his suc- cessor do the same thing. I have seen great politicians and Generals who have failed in their experiments, so far forget the interest of those who employ them, as 10 turn to and curse party leaders and soldiers, and wish to kiver up their disgrace by wishing their suc- cessors the same misfortune. knew once captain of steamboat who did not know his business, and blew up his boat and passen- gers, feel as happy as a bird when he heard that others had been as unfortunate as him. self, and gravely say, that for his part he was sure there was no safety in steam engines.- And now we see some folks equally ready to blow up the hull Banking system, because in their mismanagement of it they have burnt their fingers, and now say that all
 
 tinker who boasted of knowing all about q steam engine, and after having tinkered changes in its pipes, and valves, and blown it all to etarnal smash, say "all engines are dangerous and i-democratic-away with them, and let us take to oars and poles again ;" jest so-but this is enough for the present. And till have time to write to you again, let us all remember that when ceak, bad, or foolish men combine, it is time for sound, good and intelegent folks to unite. So no more at present from your old friend and fellow citizen, J. DOWNING, Major,
 2nd Brigade Downingville Militia.
 Strange Phenomenon following from the Findlay (Hancock co.,. Ohio) Courier, of August Sd, is certainly the most remarkable phenomenon we remember ever having heard of. The country for miles around, presents nearly dead level. "On Saturday the 29th ult. MT. Richard Wade Jr was engaged in digging well OH his premises, about four miles south of Find- lay after having dug down something like IS feet. the appearance of water was evident. MT. Wade being anxious to obtain water, seized crowbar, which was standing near, and made several strokes near the centre of the well. whereupon the water gushed forth in vivid torrents. Had not MT. Wade been extremely active in attempting to escape, he would have perished almost instantly.
 "At the time of the water gushing forth, continued roaring ensued, similar to loud clap of thunder, which shook the earth vio- lently for several hours. By an application of fircbrand to the water, it took fire and burnt like Alcohol the blaze struck five feet above the surface of the well, and at the same time burning the puncheons that lay on the top of the we'll. The water still continues to boil"
 The black girl who attempted to poison whole family, at Shodack, with arsenic, is in jail at Troy The Troy Budget says her name is Diana Vanaller.- She is reckoned about l5 The cause of her dissas- faction was jealousy towards white girl, named Ma " Welsh, who ill-treated her. She likes the family we'll enough. She went systematically to work, and sprinked the ar lie around the edge of the butter, and covered it slightly, supposng, probably, that all would be likely to partake oft, than fit was deposited in the centre of the pate She says she did not eat any of it herse and she knew it would kill rats, ifthey drank water after eatngit.
 Shocking Accident-We learn that wagon con- tainng ten kegs and about fifty cansters of gun pow der, was placed under shed in Plainfeld one day last week. appears that one keg had been opened' and that some powder had been spilled upon the wag- gon bottom, portion of which fell through the crack upon the floor of the shed. An individual, carelessy, without being aware of his presumption, applied a coal of fire to the powder the oor when, shocking to relate the powder in the wagon ignted, and the result was. five men were so severely wounded as to leave serious doubts of their recovery. The wagon and shed were torn to attoms; the explosion was