Litchfield enquirer., 1838-01-11

horrible murder was committed, during last
 week, at . house short distance this side oi
 Springfield in this State. We have the name of the person who lived in the house, but, un. til the facts are fully ascertained by regular investigation we do not consider it our duty tC mention it. The circumstances were as fol lows. A poor woman with two children, was travelling to Springfield; when night overlook
 her, just as she reached the above named house, where she applied for lodgings until morning, which request was readily granted |; a short time after a gentleman on horse back arrived and likewise asked permission to stay all night. After supper, the lady was showed to her chamber, where, being wea1ied with travel, she soon fell asleep. She was arous- ed m the night by noise which sbe thought resembled person strangling, aud immedi- ataly after she imagined that sheheard blood running on the floor. Her terror was great but doubly increased when she heard some one in the adjoining room ask, "What shall we do with the old lady 2" |" Murder her, to be sure,' replied second voice. ..' But the children?" inquired the first speaker; sit will be hard to kill them" "Weli,then, "said the second, "we will ascertain if she is a. sleep, and if so we will let her go on in the but if not, she must die." The la- dy had sufficient fortitude and presence of mind to appear to the murderers to be in a sound sleep. In tho nlorning they gave her her breakfast and suffered her to depart W ith her children. She had not gone far when she met a man on foot, who stopped her, and inquired, where she had stayed the previous night! She replied, at the first house. What kind of people live there! asked the man. They were very kind and good to me, she re- piled. The stranger passed on, and she had not proceeded far before a second man ac- costed her with "where she stayed last night" By this time her suspicious were and she answered him in the same strain as she had replied to the first. He pas sed on, and she was met by third, who pro- posed similar questions and received similar At length she arrived at Spring field, and lost no time in informing the prop CT authorities all that she had seen and heard. A body of men were procured, and proceed ed to the House designated. The murderers were taken by surprise, and all secured.- The house was then searched, and the body of a murdered man found in the cellar, and also the sum of $13,OOO was found, supposed to be the property of the victim.
 Quincy (Ohio) Argus.
 Miraculous Po,cer 0f LoJeli0.-The N. Y. Morning News gives the following, as the re- ported testimony of witness in a trial for by the injudicious use of Lo- bella. The witness was called for the de- fence:
 know an important fact. A man was blown up in powder mill. Two and twenty fragments were collected in a basket; one ofthe seeds (of lobelia) was sha- ken into the basket with them this united the stray particles; the second teaspoonful pro- duced precipitation among the particles. and '' reused up healthy action" an the basket i; the basket, in 15 minutes vomited out the man in one entire mass, and he stood on his legs j; the third teaspoonful restored him to con- sciousness and motion, and . cup of compost ton tea enabled him to talk. He has been we'll ever since.-Boston Trans.
 Infamous Ou1rage-We learn from the Warsaw (Ky.) Patriot of Saturday last, that a respectable man of that place, by the name of Simon Stockdale, was deliberately shot dead, (while standing on the wharf,) by the captain or mate of the steamboat Mountain eer. The shot was fired from the boat Stockdale was in quarrel with some of the hands of the boat. We know not when we have read of more horrible, and inexcusable outrage, as detailed by the Patriot.
 The Death Bed.-How sad and lonely the couch where the cmaciated form is stretched, uncheered by the dawnings of the eternal day! Over the poor, unhappy, wasted clay, no starlight brightness, no cherub wings are lowering. In vain are the arms offriendship extended, and the bosom of love opened.- The rays of hope may gloom brief moment on the mind, but they are cold and cheerless No vivifying influence passes over the fever ish brain no holy gush of ecstatic joy fills. supports, and entrances the soul. o. it IS hard dying when the cancellations of religion are wanting when the past. present, and the flu. ture bring in the dreadful sentence. that all is lost when no uplifted arm makes strong the inner man, while the outer man falls into what easy, pleasant dying, when the comfort able assurances of Gods words are brought home to the stricken one in language that cannot be misunderstood when the soul, feeding after the promises, clinging to the Rock of Ages, and rising up in the strength of the Lord of hosts, grapples with the monster, on ground consecrated by the Son of God, and prevails, and triumphs It is then that man looks upon the fallen pillars in which he had once gloried. with smile, and beholds the crumbling tabernacle-new- fledged, he breaks his bonds, and flies away to dip his pinions in the fount of uncrcatcd light.-Natches Herald.
 Squatlers in IuinOis.-This class of specula- tors appear to be doing splendid business in Illinois. They have a register of claims in Milwaukee, by whom all claims are register ed. The office just at this time, says the Sen tinel, is doing better business than that of Uncle Sam, which is situated by the side of it. The number of new claims made daily is very large; and actual settlers are pouring in from all quarters. Many of those claims are already valuable and sell for high prices. Any man who makes claim now between