Litchfield enquirer., 1837-03-02
CHILDHOOD.


 'Tis childhOOd's spirit.
 There's liquid eye, as the heavens 90 blue,
 ha That no tear of repentance ever knew;
 That shines like the sun through its fringe of lace, As inquinng it looks into every face;
 'Tis childhood's eye.
 There's a cherub lip that prattles away
 The imperfect words of its baby lay;
 That breaks into smiles in it's golden sleep,
 'Tis childhood's lip.
 There's tiny hand that with coaxing art,
 Finds its way to mothers face and hearS
 A tiny hand, that in after years,
 May do deeds that will cause mothers tears;
 'Tis chldhood's hand.
 For the fairy spirit, that nestles its wings,
 Will be dreaming anon of forbidden things;
 And the liquid eye, as the heavens so blue,
 Will change its expression, though not its hue:
 Then farewell childhood. And the cherub lip, and the tiny hand,
 Will be prompt to resist the once sweet command: 7: And the language of men, and their vices too The labor of love will alas undo.
 So ofarewell childhood!
 Going the ,chole Hog.-A learned Pundit of Lon- don, since Jim Crow has familarized the cockneys with our Backwoods lingo, attempts to expound the above-but he has erred we think most "awfully Its a caution to hear hmin the London Courier During the late American war, the great scarcity of small coin in the States led to the issue ot an i'm. mense quantity of small notes for fractional parts ot the dollar even so low as sareenth or six and guar distinguish them at first sight, and especially for the accommodation of the unlettered negroes each de- nomination bore the figure, in one corner, of an an- ma-the three-quarters for instance, or seyenty-ve cents, being denoted by horse the half dollar, or M ty cents by hog the quarter, or twenty-five cents by dog the eighth or tweve-and-a-half cents, by goat; and the sixteenth cents, by cock. In inducing, therefore, any tolay out the entire value of the note, it became usual to say, go the whole horse,' or the whole dog,;" and as the the others time after the necessity for such pa. per had ceased the expression of Ego the whole hog become proverbial.
 lam, Sir, your obedient servant ", DIT "Au Contraire !"-The whole Hog means the "en- tire swine"-derived unquestonaby from roasting. whole hog at jolly Saturnaas in old Kentuck call cd Barbdcues. Will you roast ha quarter, or how? No! I'll go the entire animal-the whole hog-the perfect shote-the pig complete-the bacon out and out-N0ah.
 A MT. Hiram Brundage, resident of the town of Greenwich in this State the night of the 4th inst. attempted to kill his wife by beating her in most hor rid manner with pair of tongs and then set fire to tho house. The woman recovered sufficiently to mako her escape from the house to of the neigh bors, while the house with all its contents were de- stroyed. The men wasimmediately arrested, and af- ter being examined safely lodged in the jail at Fair fed It is expected that the woman will recover from her wounds.-Harsford Patriot
 Fire.-The Sattnet Factory ot Messrs. Bliss & Wales in the town of Wales, with its entire contents was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 2lst ult. It contained 5000 pounds of wool and 4OOO yards of cloth process of manufacture. Loss estimated at s16OoO, of which S7 800 was insured at the Manufac- turers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Worces- ter.-Springfeld Republican.
 Horrid Afair-if true.-Thc Portland Advertiser says we are informed that man has been arrested in Raymond or Poland, and is undergoing examina- ton before Magistrate, charged with the crime of murdering his own wife, and subsequently female with whom it is said he had been in the habit of illicit intercourse Both deaths are supposed to have been effected by poison.
 The St. Louis Republican of Jan. 27th, says, "Go- vernon Pondcxter is dead. The wounds received by him from fall at the Mansion House in Natchez, proved fatal to his e after his friends had began to entertain strong hopes of his recovery"
 To thdw out q pump-Take piece of lead pipe, long enough to extend from the top of the pump to the bottom ot the ice. Run it down the pumpso to let one end rest upon the ce and pour boiling water into the other. The pipe keeps the water from spreading, and applies it to exact spot, and fast melts the pipe sinks upon the bottom of the hole It will in this way bore hole through the ice faster than can bore with an augur. After one hole is made in this way fairly through raise the pipe and rest it on the ice in another spot, and pour in water as bcfore After this process two or three tmes the ice will be found all melted, and the piston rod will be free.
 MGine Farmer. Calumnics of ofEncm;es.-The celebrated Boerhaave, who had many enemies, used to say that he never thought it necessary orepeat their caumnies. They are sparks" said he, whichit you do not blow them they will go out of themselves. The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverng in well doing, and by prayer to God, that he would cure the dstempercd minds of those who traduce and nure us."
 Trade and TraUel in Connecticut. During the last year, stages between New Haven and Hartford have conveyed between the two cities thirty Ousand pas sengcrs at an average of two dollars for each passen- ger There has been paid teamsters for the ranspor- aton of merchandise during the same period fty-two thousand doas, and it is said that during the last sum- mer there were conveyed by the Hartford boats on the Connecticut river between the cities of Hartford and New York, no less thad 400 passengers daily, be- sides freight to large amount.-Erpress.
 The Tuskaloosa Intellgencer states that " the fla tgues of the very arduous campaigns and the inhos- ptable climate of Florida, have cut of nearly one third of the Tennessee volunteers, and that large portion of those who have been lucky to return, arrived in New Orleans almOst naked !!" DeaA 6y CAarcoal-Mr. and Mrs. Whitney while on visit to his brother Capt. Whitney, in Gorham, (Maine) retired to bed in close bedroom without fire place, and took with them warmer or clay fur mace filled with ignited coals from the hearth. The old gentleman and lady not rising in the morning as