Litchfield enquirer., 1838-01-04

Nu 0SOAuOuI luuk uupDC4ACA GO Q 4AAAs NAAoAACo Colby in that village, on Saturday, Dec. 2d: Mir. c. had descended we'll for the pur- pose of removing some rubbish therefrom. which having accomplished, he was about ascending, holding by his hands upon a bucket and assisting with his feet against the wall, which being loose, gave way, and car ricd him down beneath it to the depth of 25 feet, with IS feet of the walling upon him. This was at midday, and the alarm being given, villagers hastily collected and com menced clearing the we'll, and had proceed ed several feet when the surrounding bank of gravel fell in, but the operators escaped un- hurt, and undismayed immediately re-com- menced the work. When they had arrived within eight feet of him, and without the least expectation of finding him alive, he was heard calling for them to hasten their work, but which they had been all the time doing to the utmost extent. At length, after hav- ing sedulously labored for six hours, they ar- rived where the victim was buried. He was in a sitting posture, with his feet under him, and his head bent forward and defended by the bucket, which was strongly secured by iron hoops and a stone standing over 1t m the form of rafters. In this situation he had been so compressed for nearly six hours, that he had not been able to move himself particle. The anterior portion of the skull had been laid bare, his left shoulder dislocated, and his right ancle fractured, with bruises cover- ing his whole body. His wounds were care fully dressed, his shoulder and ancle repla- ced, and every attention paid that Kindness could suggest, but he survived only l2 hours. He had preserved his senses, and had listen ed attentively while in the well to what was passing over him, heard the slide of the grav- el when it fell, and was able to describe eve- vooox,oy,,oof Ho haS loft wife and One4 child. Aged Al years"
 "Is not the SHIP itself wonder! That 9 fabric so gigantic as first rate ship of traffic or of war, framed of ponderous timbers, com pacted with bolts and bars of still more pom derous iron, holding in its bosom masses of merchandise, under whose weight strong cars have groaned, and paved streets trembled, or bearing on decks hosts of armed men, with the laundering armament of a nation-that 8 fabric thus framed and freighted, should float in fluid into which if a man fall he sinks and is lost, is in itself wonder. But that such a fabric should traverse oceans, strug- glng on amid the strife of seas and storms, that it should hold on it's way like a thing of life," nay thing of intellect, being endued with courage and stimulated by high pur- pose, a traveller that has seen the end of his voyage from the beginning. that goes forth upon it without fear and completes it as with the feeling of triumph, is. as 1t seems to me, Q greater wonder still. Let mo ask you to stand, as you perhaps have stood, upon the deck of such ship,
 "In the dead waste and middle of the night"
 now in the strong light ofthe moon as it looks down upon you between the swelling sails, or now in the deep shadow which the sails throw over you. Hear the majestic thing that bears you breasting and breaking her march! She is moving alone, on the top of the world through the dread solitude ofthc sea. Nothing is heard, save, perhaps the fal- ling back of wave, that has been showing its white crest to the morn, or, as your ship is ploughing her way, the rushing of the water along the sides. Yet she seems to care for all that she contains, and to watch, while they sleep as sweetly in her bosom as in their own beds at home and though she sees no con- voy to guard her, and no torch bearer 10 guide her, she seems as conscious that she is going safe, as she is confident that she is going right. Is not this wonder !"-Pierpoint.
 Maternal Influence. the tenderest sight on earth-the mother giving the first bent to the mind that is immortal. Oh! what lessons of heavenly wisdom may come down through her lips and find their way to g. heart not yet in contact with the world! How may she seize on the first indications of intellect.
 and consecrate it to God. How may the eye
 of q mother, beaming with affectionate re-
 gard, direct the little dependent being to the
 Savior! A warm-hearted and prudent moth- CT will exert almost unlimited influence over her. children the first six or eight years of their life period above all others when the heart is susceptible of deep and lasting ina- pressions. Solomon frequently adverts, with great tenderness, to the pious counselS of his mother. Timothy was instructed when child by his mother and grandmother. John Randolph, of Roanoke, used to say, T should have been French Atheist, were it not for the recollection of the time when my departed mother used to take my little hand in hers, and make me say, on my pended knees, Our Father who art in Heaven! There are few men eminent in science and religion, who have not expressed deep-felt gratitude for the example, counsels and prayers of pious mother; and it would be difficult to find an instance in which children have been brought up in the fear of God, and the love ofthe Sa- vior, where the mother asshowed no marked solicitude to cherish life ofpiety in her fam ily.-Dr. J. s. Law.
 Melancholy and Distressing Death cf Three Brothers.-Three brothers, by the name of McGready, were drowned on Saturday, a few yards above the dam, in Patroon's Creek The youngest of them, aged about 4 years, was playing near the water, and slipped un- der the ice the second one went in to save him, and became entangled in the ice. By this time the mother had arrived on the spot. The oldest one. aged 1S, was just plunging in for the purpose of attempting to save hls