Litchfield enquirer., 1838-07-05


 My days of revelry
 o gladly give up;
 They're but the masks of misery Which still Turk in the cup; While Incidence and Want ..- .-.. Themselves % in every r drunkard's haun,,- I've cast the bowl away'
 A drunkard's gloomy grave
 Shall ne'er be made for mei o, rather let the rushing wave Engulph me in the sea!
 And may it be my lot
 To die meath Reasons ray! Remembered by my friends or not,- I've cast the bowl away! My path henceforth is plain, . In honesty to live .... To shun ihtemp'rance and its train, By industry to thrive
 No duty to forget,
 And live to bless the day s. .- When was led without regret, To cast the bowl away!
 Up to any thing-A good anecdote is told of the Rev. J. L. Weems, that eloquent bographer of wrote books, but that he peddted them, also In one of his excursions of this nature, he accidentally fe in with pair of young people who were ape4t 10 pc was immediately applied to to perform the ceremony of uniting them in wedlock: After this important matter had been settled the idea very naturally sug-
 ss o o .bs s | had no objection and the only difficulty which ap- peared to render the proposal impracncabie was
 that they had no fiddler. It was whispered that the difficulty could be overcome if certain arrangements were made. Accordingly. curtain was suspended
 from the ceiling, extending from one side ct the room
 the other and presently Dend # ne aar bs merry dance began: All things went gay and merrIiy for while but suddenly, the curtain was torn oose when o T5o should he @ dear
 life itself, but really for the amusement of the oanc CTS. certainly happy faculty to be able to turn hand to any thing M Air. %as o Ge e ebas I est wrters-an honest peddler-a first rate fiddler, | and above all, good man.-Bah. Sun. l Keen Retort-Miss Martineau, in her late work, has chapter therein on originals" In her peregr- nations, she stopped short time at Bratteboro, V During her stay there, her female companion was ta ken ill., and the village doctor was caed; Hne S9na ,a all her ingenuity in varying her questions, she could not ascertain from the doctor, the nature of the dis ease which asSted her friend All t ms f9sTsTs r @ bert. The doctor has published the repiy' 'n which he a says; avs ..u hor ,,ho,.b .h. slmos, nes. tered my life out to be informed bore It all, ana equvocated and evaded, and all from motives of de | icacy, to spare the woman's feelings. If she has been so very much concerned to know, ana IS yet m the dark, will enighten her darkness. Her irend was in the first stages of del,rium trenaens -tamp- shire Gag.
 Manners i, Missouri.-A member elect of the lower chamber of the Legislature of this State, was last year persuaded by some wags of his neighborhood, that if he did not reach the State House at 10 o'clock on the day ot Assembly, he could not be sworn, and would lose his seat. He immediately mounted, with hunting frock, rifle and bowie knife, and spurred till he got to the door of the State House, where he hitched his nag. A crowd were in the chamber in the lower house on the ground floor, walking about with their hats on and smoking cigars. These he pass ed, ran up stairs into the Senate Chamber, set his rife against the wall, and bawled out, Strangers where's the man that swores me in 2" at the same time taking out his creden- tials. "Walk this way" said the clerk, who was at the moment igniting real Principe, and he was sworn without inquiry. When the Teller came to count noses he found that there was one Senator too many present; the mistake was soon discovered, and the hunts man was informed that he did not belong there. "Fool ,Oho with your corn bread 7" he roared. You can't funk this child, no how you can fix it. I'm elected to this here Legislature, and I'll go again all banks and eternal improvements, and if there's any of your oratory gentlemen wants to get skin ned, jest say the word, and I'll light upon You like a nigger on a woodchuck. My consti- tuents sent me here, and if you wants to floor this two legged animal, hop on, jest as soon as you like, for tho I'm from the back coun. try I'm a little smarter than any other quad- ruped you can turn out of this drove" Af- ter this admirable harangue, he put his bowie knife between his teeth, and took up his rife with. "Come here old Suke, stand by me" at the same time presenting it to the chair man, who however had seen such people be- fore. After some expostulation, the man was persuaded that he belonged to the lower chamber, upon which he sheathed his knife, flung his gun on his shoulder, and with pro- found congee, remarked, "Gentlemen, beg your pardon, but if I didn't think that are lower room was the groggery, may be shot.'- Western pep.
 Irish hEquify-A couple from the Green Isl- and-Pat and Nancy-had settled on the Mississippi, and in course of time, (to use the language of the regions) had "acquired six children and nine negroes" Pat had made up his mind to better his fortunes, and to go unincumbered, higher up the river i; and he therefore explained his plans to Man. cy, finishing with, and so, my darlin, I'll lave you; but I'll do my best by you; I'll lave you the six dear. nate pretty children. and I'll take the nine nasty. dirty nagers."- Miss Martineou.