Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-05-16

found themselves in the undisturbed posses.
sion of the deck Of the other. By this time
the dust had cleared away little, and it was
found that nothing serious had occurred to
either boat.
From the Miledgeule Recorder
Riot and Murder.-Twenty-on Irish work.
men from Savannah, going to Allatoony with
their carts and plumber, to work on the Rail-
road, they struck camp near the house Of a
Mr.. Brumley, and about 10 o'clock went to
rest, and at or 2 o'clock in the morning,
were awakened by the fire of q gun, and
next followed about 70 of the Irishmen who
were engaged with Mr.. Thomas on the Rail-
road, near the place where they encamped,
with picks, spades, knives and sticks, killed
two Of the females dead on the spot, and Sc
verely wounded eight more, and did not stop
at that, they next broke open their trunks and
plundered them of every thing valuable. On
the next day, the citizens raised in arms, and
went and arrested sixty-four of the supposed
murderers, and thirty -four of that number
were identified to be of the numbering clan,
and committed to Jail to wait their trial.
Singular loss of Muscular Poacer.-"I 1t re-
quires all sorts of men to make world. -
u0 1OlAOWluR SAUSuA0A N00O 10 ACAOtOO Wy
Doctor Smith in the Medical and Surgical
Journal:
A man has been walking the streets of Bos-
ton, lately, from the eastward, who has suf-
fered such perfect loss of contractile power
in the posterior muscles of the neck, that he
is wholly unable to hold up his head. Such
is the sensation Of weight, and SO inconven-
lent is it to have it dangling, as it were, on
the breast, wholly interfering with the use of
the eyes or mouth, that somewhat compli-
Gated machine has been invented expressly
to remedy the case. An iron rod runs down
the hips upward, encircling the body. Upon
the top Of the rod, broad band embraces
the forehead, and thus the organs of vision
are kept on horizontal line-and thus the
poor fellow threads his way over the city,
hoped up almost like cask. How admira-
bic, simple and symmetrical is the apparatus
nature employs-snugly packed away on the
back of the neck, which maintains the head
in an upright condition, far more perfectly
than the clumsy contrivances of man, when
his ingenuity has been taxed to its utmost.
The Mormon Bible.-The origin of this
work which it has puzzled many to account
for, being evidently the production of cul-
tivated mind, yet found in the hands of ex-
ceedingly ignorant and illiterate persons, is
at length explained. 1t was written in 1872,
for amusement, as historical romance of
the lost race, the remains of whose numerous
mounds and forts are found on the banks of
the Ohio. The author was the Rev. Solo
mon Spaulding, graduate of Dartmouth
College, who resided at New Salem, Ohio i;
and on the appearance of a Mormon preacher
there, many of the friends of the deceased
clergyman, recollected passages of which he
had read to them during the time he was en-
gagged in composing it. On inquiry, the
original manuscript was found among his pa
pers. 1t also appeared that at one time he
had some thoughts in relation 10 printing the
work, and that it remained at printing Of
fee for some time. Sidney Rigdon, who has
figured so largely in the history of the Nor
mons, was at that time employed in this prin-
ting office, and 1t was no doubt copied by
him.
Another steamboat, Pennsylvania, OH her
way from Tuscumbia,( Ala. } having on board,
besides full cargo, $4,000 in specie for the
Branch of the State Bank at Decatur, took
fire at the landing at Paducah, mouth Of the
Tennessee river, on the evening of Monday
of last week, and was destroyed. From
twenty to thirty thousand dollars of the spe-
Gle were saved. The loss is computed at
$4,000, some of which was insured, but
we cannot learn how much.-N. Y. Express.
We understand, that one of the defeated
!oco-foco candidates for Congress in Connect
lieut.. has just written letter to Mr.. Van Blu
rem. describing his prosecutions and his suf-
ferings in the cause of democracy. Fearing.
however. that his meaning might not be suffi-
GENTLY palpabie. he hinied something in his
Posiscript about a foreign mission.
1t was very prudent hint. The member
was as sagacious as the elderly maiden lady,
described in Blackwood, who used to pray
tor the Lords blessing, which she always ex-
planned In an elevated tone thus And lest
. Lord. thou shouldst not understand what
mean, four hundred year, paid quarterly
-Loaisuille Journal.
A SIR Fish Etory-Silk worms eggs. In
connection with morus multicaulis buds have
lately been great article Of merchandise,
ana nave sold ut forty TO fily dollars an
ounce. We learn that an Individual. anx.
ious 70 satisfy, as Tar 40 possible, the disDoai.
ton for agricultural speculation, has been
supplying the Jersey market with shad's
eggs, Ut q considerable reduction IN price,
Snles were made In Monmouth county 10 tho
amount ofsovon hundred d0llara. Next venr
we shall expect 10 500 shad growing on inml.
berry trooo.-Jour n Com.