Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-11-14

n love Win 4 very beautiful young lady
named C, on Monday last, quarreled
about her on Tuesday, selected seconds on.
Wednesday, sent challenge on Thursday,
arranged the preliminaFiess on Friday, and
fought ON Saturday last. The particulars
are these. Mr.. Cooper and Mr.. Van Ingen
both work IN the Office Of the Herald, and
both CHANGED TO fall in love with the samela.
dy. Both not being able TO obtain her hand
and heart, they agreed to fight each other,
and the survivor to take the lady, Accord.
ingly they selected as seconds, Mr.. Glen, and
Mr.. Connery. both also compositors in our of.
fee, and agreed to fight in avalley near the
bridge at Harlem OH Saturday The parties
like wise men, nude no parade Of their IN
tentions, neither did they deem ii necessary
to run Otto Canada TO fight; but went cut
quietly, like men of business, and took their
places back to back. The distance measure
ed was ten PAGES; the parties placed back to
back, marched OF and tt:rned sat The word
'one.' AT two they drew up in line; and
at the drop ola handkerchief they fired, with
out hitting each other. They loaded, and
again the handkerchief was dropped, Van
Ineen fired: Cooper's pistol missed. A de-
bate was then held whether Cooper was enti-
tied to fire by himself to make up for the
miss This was allowed; Van Ingen stood
as cool as cucumber. Cooper fred and
missed him. The seconds loaded again, and
again they both fired Cooper missed, Van
Ingcn's ball grazed Cooper3 arm. The ser
opds interfered- declared the honor Of both
parties satisfied; and they all adjourned 10
take quiet drink, and wound up with good
supper, over which they shook bands and
swore brothers. Yesterday they were both
back at their cases working like men of sense,
and fit for senator's. YsHsrald. s4,s
MYSTERY, REASON AND FAITH.
tits seldom that we meet with a passage
more truly eloquent than the following. It
Is taken from an essay BY the Rev. r. Pea
body, Of New Bedford -
!" Night comes oyera ship at sea- and a
passenger fingers hour after hour alone on
the deck. The waters plunge and weller
and glide away beneath the keel. (, Above,
the sails tower up Id the darkness, almost 10
the sky, and their shadow falls as it were
burden on the deck below. In the clouded
night no star is to be seen, and as the ship
changes her course the passenger knows not
which way is east or west, or north or south.
What islands, what sunken rocksmay be on
her course-or what that course is, or where
they are, he knows not. ALI around to him
is Mystery. He bows down in the subfnis-
sion Of utter ignorance. !,
But men of science have read the laws of
the sky. And the next day this passenger
behotds the captain looking at Q clock. and
taking note Of the place Of the sun, and. with
| the aid of couple Of books composed Of
rules and mathematical tables, making cal
| culations. And when he has completed
! them, he is able to point almost within a
hands breadth to the place ct which after
Iunnumbered winnings, be. has arrived in the
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and currents drifted, but he knows where
they are, and the precise point where. hun
dred leagues over the water, lies his native
shore. Here is Reason approaching and
making use of .he revelations Qf we may SO
callihem) Of science. Va s!s Il s 81
Night again shuts down over the waste OF
the waves, and the passenger beholds sin
| gle seaman stand at fha wheel. and watch,
hour after hour, as it yibrates beneath
lamp, alittle needle. which points ever, as if
It were a living fngersto the steady pole.
| This man knows nothing of the rules Of
navigation, nothing OF the course Of the sky.
But reason and experience have given him
FaiM in the commanding officer of the ship
faith in theSlaWs that control her course
faith in the funerfilg integrity Of the little
guide before him. And so. without single
doubt, be steers his ship on, according. 70 a
waves. And that faith is not disappointed.
With the morning sun, he beholds far away
the submits Of the gray and misty highlands
rising like d cloud on the horizon; and. as
he nears them, the hills appear, the light.
houses at the entrance of the harbor, and
(sightI Of joy the spires Of the churches, and
the shining roofs among which pc strives to
detect his own. $50 Jssfles 4.
a8s2 54l1s ----Isi Il qss fsE hsfs5
Money and Bread. The snow and temper
allure Of yesterday felt wiiterish. We are
informed that the millers ia this section OF
the country stop grinding on the 18th inst,
and that the FOrwafders draw OF their boais
all at the same time. This will leave but ii
working days afler today, 70 supply New
England and New York, which places are
now entirely bare Of -four. The price y 80
low in New York. and the utter impossibility
of procuring funds 64he country such. that
d much less quantity will 70 forward. than
would otherwise be for the interest OF the
country. Thissis no fiction for atthe pres
ent time, we are informed, there are not QUO
barrels of -four in New York, whereas last
year on the first of November there was sup
posed TO be 100000 barrels at the least cal
culation.- Rochester Democrat. tsasa
h If you must form harsh judgments. form
them of yourself not Of others and, M
general, beginby attending to your own de-
ficiences first, If every one would sweep his
own walk,W should have very clean Streets
The Corporal During the american rev.
olution, an oficeB not habi ~ ms militia,
~ costume, was passing py wneres g small
company Of soldiers were At work making
some ,repairs ,IDon a small Tedoubt. The
cnuornn,,Anr &c ~ i;ttlao snuad was giving