Litchfield enquirer., 1839-12-19
11Eo-a tLs Maine CuItisas0r.

forth the evils of Winter se n.o,,;dence | circumstance in its favor 1S . .s';.s Svs. had forgotten or .' ,o ,be yicissi- ....,,. .".i. - of ,he seasons, which appears Iu
 .,,her Separtnaent of his natural oPerasG; .s;. ;s
 Sccor.li1g to his description every .nS
 .nId-uvind is cold, water IS coio' sns!ts diS
 cold. gravy is cold in short' tne WoiM .s ,s S
 S osS ths beorfs in it are as cold as lceCergs' l Everv thing, too, is dark; the cIouos are 5ark.the mind is dark-the nlgnl lS "1tA' .od inc ,lav is dark. In addition to thus, cV- ~.S ar., ,binO is blue: the noses are blue-loOAs ore hlue. and the prospects of the people are hIne. If the writer did not have the blues even in autumn while he is writing, then we miss our guess.
 Such person does injustice to Providence and to the real facts in the case. The nHr, cies of Heaven are more equally distributed throughout the season, than many are Will linp io allow. Says Solomon, "t lie hath made every thing beautiful in his time." It green fields are beautiful in summer, so are also the white ones in winter. 1t the tecm- ing earth lies at rest in her slumoers ourlhs winter, she only allows her human occupants to enjoy themselves the more merrlly wal'e she sleeps. Winter. after alt, Is the ll'ellest season of the year. The snows glSe us a rail.road in every direction, and the merry bells impart liveIiness 10 the scene. True, cold weaIner makes us more acuVe Ou' activity is necessary to health. both of body and of mind. The farmer goes to market, and our villages are filled with the busy hun of trade.
 The social effects of winter, too. are ot in. estimable importance to our community There is then more time for reading and vis- iting-for Lyceurns and other literary asso- citations which abound in New England. It is to the rigors of northern winter that we are indebted for much of our moral and so- cial pre-eminence over the south.
 Let the long winter evenings now before us be we'll appropriated to purposes of lntel- lec,ual improvement and social happiness As the father returns to his fire side from the cares of a busy life, let him establish, for cer- tain evenings in the week, system of judi cious family reading. Let him select some useful works of History, Biography, Trav- els, &c. and cause them to be read tn course by some member of his household; taking care to give variety and interest to the occa- sions by seasonable conversational hints and suggestions as the reading proceeds. In this way he will save his children from bad com pany and dangerous influences, and confer a lasting good upon his family. No person deserves to enjoy the relation or the honora- ble name of father, who does not, by some such system, take good care to feed the minds of his offspring with salutary intellectual and moral food, as well as to provide for the wants of their mere animal nature.
 Sirty dollars for lady's hGt.-The Phila- delphia Saturday Courier says, that on certain occasion, Joseph Bonaparte was in the city of Philadelphia, with some members of his family, and one of the young ladies ex- pressing desire to purchase fashionable hat for the season, they entered ton store,on Chesnut street, and the lady selecting Leg horn hat, which she fancied, the price was l asked, and Count Surveillers was told sixty dollars! He replied, "I must decline to buy it, then true, can afford it, but will not set so foolish an example,"
 A day or two afterwards, adds the above paper. the fippant daughter of dealer in merchandise, dropped into the same store, to get fashionable hat for the season. The one which the young lady of the Counts fam lily had selected, was shown her. She was delighted with it--especially "as the Bona- parte's had fancied it," and of course it was sent home. and the father passed a check for the sixty dollars. Well, it was admired and talked about, but whose business was it, |" since her father was so very rich, and they 1 could afford it!" "Aye, there's the rub" tor in less than four months, the father fail. l ed for four or five hundred thousand dollars, but the daughter had previously thrown aside | the sixty dollar hal as "out of season.'
 An Adrenturoas Lss.-Gilbert Y. Francis, who lately died at New Orleans of yellow fever, led most remarkable and romantic life. He asleft memoir for the press. In early life he was attached to the navy-then | to the stage-traveled over the four quarters | or the globe-was for two years prisoner l m the Great Desert of Ara abia-afterwa a 1 slave to the Bashaw of Tunis-then lieuten. ant of Guerilla party in Spain-master of Dutch lugger trading to the Malaccas. He was subsequently, oyerseer of a sugar estate m Jamaica-then engaged in cutting haywood m the forest of Campeachy--was for three mon!ns a prisoner among the banditti in Mexico-then captive among the Caman- cncs-was ransomed by some fur traders from the Orregon-was employed bv inc governor of the Russian settlements to com mand a brig in the wheat trade with Chilli nnaily revisited his native State and married. | ana was extensively engaged in Texan one. rations when death arrested him. still in inc | prime of life. His education was defective, but he was man of great energy of charac. ter.-N. Y. TaAler.
 Ihe Ohio.-No river in the world rolls for | thousand miles current so smooth and | peaceful. Its tributes wind through as ma. | ny v4ilies in ten different states. The Ten. nessee' the first in size. having passed nav. .gaOie course through three states for more | than one thousand miles, falls into the Ohio river aDove Its mouth :; the Cumberland sixty-two miles-being navigable for steam. bouts to Nashville, and for keel boats three hundred miles further; the Wabash. two hundred miles; Green river, two hundred ana eighty miles from the mouth of the Ohio sNe ssNNeer-navigable two hundred miles. and G. S yards wide at the mouth the Kentuckv. H. n.s hundred and four miles, navigable one h.1ed hhundIed and fifty miles; Great Miami. four nunuIec I S, ana eighty two miles-navieable