Litchfield enquirer., 1838-11-08
-.r. FOR THE ENQUIRER. u
TO A DEPARTED FRIEND

All unconscious of my tears
Sympathy no more is weeping w.
.t 10 console my anxious fears. -''. I'D.
| IN Dreary winds around are signing, .
ei& III Where my fevered head is laid ..f
An my fondest hopes are dying ~
80 Gentle spirits bring me aid
rG Scatter far yon cloud Of anguish 81, .,tl
mNH Drive away distracting care; ldi ~. ..u
Fer beneath its weight llangnish-- br4
Fer yield to dark despair. !- #at
BY thy soft mysterious power, .- AID
| nl Hush the storm within my breast; ,l.l
Cheer with smiles this lonely honr-- als
10 sweetly hull thy charge to rest. 2 H
| Let no needless fears awake me l.....
| 3 From repose so kindly given, ~,
But-should death this night o'ertake me, s.
| May wake with thee in Heaven. C.
:" Stcnd and Deliuer,'' were the words addressed
to tailor travelling on foot, BY hghwaynan whose
brace Of pistols looked rather dangerous than other
| wise. 5f tt4E 9.t4 --'fJJ SIG H,:F"
an do that with pleasure was the reply, at the
same time handing over to the outsreched hands o.
the ro6ber 2 purse apparently pretty well stocked
e Ny sods would laugh az ne t
home and tell them was robbed with as much pa
tience as lamb; s'pose you FIRE your two bulldogs
right through the crown Of my hat it will look some
| thing like show Of resistance"
| His request was acceded to but hardly had the
smoke from the discharge of the weapons passed
away. when the tailor pulled out rusty old horse pis
hghwayman to shell out every thing Of value his pis.
tolls not omitted. about him. o.'''' @'i* '3f' Z
No PARTY MEN.-The celeba,ed Dean Swift, in a
passage in one OF his essays thus fecitously hits off
the true character Of " no party man:" .l...,.
| "A man Of no party Whoever gives himself this
character, you may depend upon il, is Of party but
il such party as he is ashamed to own: For even
while he says he is Of party you may observe from
the whole drift Of his DISCOURSE that he is plainly pre-
JUDGED in favor Of one party, and that, TOO, always
the worst. And the true reason Of his declaring,
nff e s'e g. good
Of the intention, seems TO be wholly out Of this
gentleman's scheme. The only distinction he goes
~ s to Be politically q 10 party; tina. ne may coca
| ly Of party and don't know it. They carry on de-
signs which kept secret from them and these. in
deed, are such Insignificant tools OF party, that they
may properly enough be said to be ofno party they
are machines purely passive, and without any will d
their own, obey the impulse Of the wheel that moves
them. But you will never hear man Of true princ
y if TO stand by and resolutely defend the constu
ton must be called being of party But the Other
party, seems, must be divided into two sortsthose
preston to themselves, would beg leave to reason
thus Either they are Of party o. they are not I
unnannerly expressonl while they give out the con;
trary they are not, they ought 70 be ashamed OF
such an infamous neutrality, and Of deserving that
cause which they are bound in honor and conscience
"Lot's Wifs"-Mr. Coman, in hie agricultural nd.
dress last week, illustrated the folly Of modern female
BY 90 man WIG had
mated by half pair OF scissors at last seriously de-
terrnined he would. procure him wife, He got The
refusal Of one who was beautiful and tashionably
accomplished. and took her upon trial to bis home.-
Soon learning that she knew nothing, either how to
darn stocking, or boil potato or roast bit OF bee
returned her 70 her fathers house. as having been
was commenced by the good lady, but the husband
alleged that che was not "up to the sample, and o.
course the obligation to retain the commodity was
s Us b but bs would have sVen fortune rather thar
not to he liberated from such irksome engagement
..As well might The farmer have the original venn'
q p%eSsTn s
continued he " 1t would he much better to have Lot
wife standing here. for che might answer one usefu
purpose; she might sab has bacon !--Northampto'
Courier. s,ll( H.. Il .,rr,,y, I'D f..r5.f
Dreadful Accidsnt-Y Yesterday afternoon. At thre'
o'clock, Mr.. Geo. Tappen, who had business 10 trans
act in the vicinity Of the Bowery stopped his hors
and light wagon at the corner Of Elizabeth and He's
ter streets, where he made the animal fast. He hat
been absent scarcely moment, when bis horse tool
fright, broke loose. and dashed fnrousy up Elizabeth
street. AT the corner Of Grand ST. the horse came r
contact with an aged and respectfully dressed man
whom he knocked down, trod upon his person, the
wheels ofthe wagon passed over his head managing hs
scalp, and acerating his face in dreadful manner
| IS:
yeyed to the 18th Ward Hotel where his wounds wert
dressed by DR.. Cheeseman, and be partially revived
A Mr.. Wagstaf, who CHANGED to call in at the time
Immediately recognized in the sufferer the person o
the venerable JOsrpA Lancaster the founder Of III,
Lancaserian system Of education. He was taken Il
the hospital, where twas supposed that he will not b
able to survive his injuries Y Era. [Since dead
| Accidenf.-We learn that n man Of the nnme o.
Hubbell, who was working at the Clifton Scythe
Works, in Winchester, Instantly killed on Friday
last by the bursting Of grndstone, on which he wal
grinding scythe. He has LET: wife and two child
ren.-Hartford Couranf .......5.
Precocity.-The returns Of the number Of children
in the several school districts in this State between
the ages Of four and sixteen required by law 10 BE-
made annually. for the purpose ofregnatng the distr
button of the avails Of the school fund, show this year
remarkable fact. The names ola mother and child.
both between the ages flour and sixteen, return
ed as among the children attending district school
in one Of the western towns. This fact is probably
wiihou, precedent in New Enaland.-Cowanf
TIE SrocK ExHAusTED.-A Western paper states
that the last single lady in Scott county, Iowa, found
her market Oh the lGlh u. and that anxious are
the settlers for wives, that they never ask lady her
age-al they require IL teeth Now Is the chance for
the forlorn hopes to turn their faces Westward. n
their faces have No teeth the dentists will fix them
out, and although they may cost money, they win
find it cheaper in the end.-har.ford COarier.
The Charleston papers announce the death Of Mr.
EIhhert the mate of the Pnlaski who aacanad in a