Litchfield enquirer., 1837-11-23

he preached his Parkstreet Lectures afterwards pu- lished in an svo. volume. He was also for while. Professor in the Theological Seminary at Andover- For some years pas owing to old age and bodily mfr. mites, his mental powers have evidently declined-- He had worn himself in the service ofhis Master .s.-.s. Journal Comn,crcr. ] The Louisville Journal says" Another village Postmaster in Virginia has run away. Thus vanish es another of the administrators deposit banks The government will soon find out that it is guilty of ye " great error in having banks with legs to them."
 Judge Lewis, now distinguished lawyer and judge in Pennsylvania, was a journeymnn printer in the office of the New-York Daily Advertiser in lSlS Application and industry will do more than Trades Unions. +'%i @ { Mqrried L0dies.-A married lady, alluding in con versaton to the hundred and tory-eighth Psalm, ob served, that while "young men and mailens, old men and children," we've expressly mentioned, not word was said about married womeDv An old clergyman, whom she was addressing, assured her they had not been omitted, and that she could find them included in one of the preceding verses under the description of Uapours and storm.
 Conrad Deftenbacher, of Danville Pa. went into his stable to saddle horse; and while fixing on the saddle, another horse loose in the stable frightened from some cause, commenced kicking, and struck MT. D. on his breast, knocking him against stone wal which his head struck with great violence caus- ing his death in two hours. q.as. boy, playing on the top of three story house in Philadelphia. slipped, and fell to the pavement, caus- ing his death almost instantly. #a sa ,ca A TAoroughgoiHg Villain.-Aseamp named Chris topher Babcock has been committed to prison in Buff talo, charged with five cases of seduction.
 DronoaJ .-Tho I<,d,y oro ,,., ., ,. loatingin Conn. river, near the Messrs Rands wharf, in this city. on Thursday last. He had on a white cotton shirt, black wooen vest tow-cloth panaloons and green flannel drawers. He was feet inches in height A Jury of inquest was summoned. who, on examination, gave verdict of accidental drowning
 MiddLetO1Dn Sentinel.
 Look ua!-The Hartford Courier states that there are counterfeit @ notes of the Phenix Bank Weser- y, R. l., and of the Leicester Bank, Mass in crcu- lation. @=
 An engineer of steamboat at Cincinnati having on the 23d inst. struck clerk attached to one of the boats, and drawn blood, the latter drew pistol and the charge entered neighboring store. The clerk then snapped twice second pistol and the engineer made of. @s#
 A New-Hampshire farmer recently gathered sew enty-two bushels of fair, handsome apples, enough to
 make nine barrels of cider from tree, and harvest ed twenty five bushels of wheat from less than one a. ere of land, planted with one bushel fseed wheat.
 EGstern papers.
 Ironical.- prospectus ofthe Missouri Iron Com- pany in glowing aesesiPs;v f sarnaania nf Mis- souri City and the Iron Mountain, says "near the top of the mountain the blocks of naked ore vary from the size of small roo that of the largest class of churches! We understand they intend to get it out in humps about the size of a cellar door.-Ibid.
 Notice, or Alarm g01g.-A very ingenious instrument, of which we have seen a model, has been invented by Capt. George Smith, R. N., intended to give warning of the ap- proach, and to announce the course steamer is sailing on in a fog. It consists of gong on which a hammer is made to strike every ten seconds a certain number of blows, by very simple machinery, according to the course the steamer is sailing on. For exam pie, if she be going north, the gong is struck once; if east, twice if south, thrice !; if west, four times, every ten seconds. By this sys- tematic method, the position, of course, and proximity of a steamer will be clearly an- nounced to any other vessel. In rivers Cap tain Smith proposes the gong to emit single sounds every ten seconds, which would be enough to give warning. He also proposes to apply the instrument to railway trains, by the blowing of a trumpet. The peculiar merit of the invention appears to us to lie in the cquability of the intervals, and of intensi- ty of sound, which cannot be equalled by any human means. Railray Magazine.
 True but not Fzanering g-The following picture of MT. Van Bnren we copy from the National Gazette f~el #aal
 We are among those who always foretold that MT. Van Buren neither would nor could originate any statesnanlike measure of poli- cy and that of all our public men he was the least fit to meet crisis like the present. There are little men in nll pursuits of life ; quibbling lawyers; mechanical doctors peddling merchants; martnets in the camp and drudges il. inc council, and to this class of little men does our present Chief Magis- trate emphatically belong. When at the bar he held that intermediate rank between high and low. which all who are observers of the gradations of professional merit, so we'll un- derstand. As . politician he was an expert man at expedients. As Senator he never originated a great measure or made great speech, and was confessedly inferior in point ofnerve and talent, not only 10 the great men who once represented New York in that bo- dy. but to his immediate predecessor and suc- cessor; to either Governor Marcy or MT. Wright. As Cabinet Minister he degrad- ed the country by single despatch, memo rable only because it exposed our domestic broils to foreign observation. As President, his first public act has been singularly characteristic; and in it, as in all beside, was manifested the same contracted spirit, the same purblind vision; resort to the same inverted medium which .s belitties'' every thing at which it is directed.
 As contrast. we find in the same article the following sketch of Gen. Jackson