Litchfield enquirer., 1839-08-08

CASUALTIES From HORsBBAcK R9p1No.-.
Miss Mary Macnamara, daughter Of Col. NJ.
of Salisbury, N. c., while riding on horse
back, was run away with, thrown against
tree and killed. The gentleman with her
was also run away with and thrown. Mr..
McCalla, of Lexington, KY, was thrown
from his horse near the Lower Blue Licks;
and his skull dangerously fractured. Miss
Louisa Amelia Shaler, second daughter of
Charles Shaler, Esq. of Woodvilie, near
Pittsburgh, came to her death on the 10Th in
a manner truly melancholy. Riding ahead
of her companions, "a young lady and gen.
tleman, )the horse ran away when she scream.
ed and swooned. The gentleman overlook
her. and with great difficulty transferred the.
young lady to his own horse, which fell and
struck Miss H. as he stumbled. She died in
a few minutes, probably from fright. as no
fracture D.: bruise was discovered. She was
eminent for her piety, and was followed to
the grave by numerous circle, and by the
Sunday Scholars she had taught.-Euening
Star. .
Locomotives wear much better than was
anticipated. That called THE Lancaster, on
the Columbia, Pa, railroad has been in use
since 1888, and is now nearly as good as new.
1t was built by Mr.. Baldwin of Philadelphia,
and has, it is said, travelled more than
100000. 1t was placed on the road TO test,
in presence Of the Legislature, the superior
ity Of locomotive steam over animal power,
and such was its efficiency that the Assem-
bly, adopted it at once. There are also 9TH
er engines as old as the I" Lancaster" on 9th.
err routes, which have been running for six
years, and promise to last more than as long
again. The estimate of wear was originally
put down, with good usage, at $1,000 an en-
CINE per annum, but experience has shewn
that one half the sum is an ample allowance.
Newark Daily Advertiser.
"Have you Goldsmith's Greece 7" asked q
gentleman on enteringa bookstore in Broad
way. "No Sir; but they have some excel.
lent bears oil in the next door," replied the
counter boy. - t
The Boundary Question.-The London
Morning Herald of June %, contains re-
port that the British Government had ap-
pointed two Commissioners with instructions
to proceed Immediately to the disputed ter
ritory between New Brunswick and Maine,
for the purpose of surveying it."
Noble Liberality.-The inhabitants of st.
John, N. B. have transmitted to Eastport, Me.
$1,000 for the relief of sufferers by the late
disastrous fire in that place. Such dona-
ton from town no larger than st. John,
would have been liberal under any circum-
stances but when we take into view the Sc
mi-hostile relations which so recently exist
ed between the two people, New Bruins
wick and Maine,) and the unsettled contro-
versy still remaining, VIC confess that there
is something in this act of the citizens Of st.
John which strikes us as truly magnanimous.
IN. Y. Journal Of Commerce.
Recozlections.-Time mellows ideas as il
mellows wine. Things in themselves indif.
ferent acquire certain tenderness in recol.
lection. and the scenes of Our youth, though
remarkable neither for elegance nor feeling
rise up to our memory dignified at the
a distant land acknowledge one another's
friends, so objects to which, when present
we give but little attention, are nourished in
distant remembrance with cordial regard
If in their own nature of tender kind, the
ties which they had in the heart are drawn
still closer, and we recall them with enthusi
asm of feeling which the same objects at the
immediate time are unable TO excite. The
hum of little tune, to which in our infancy
we have often listened the course of a brook
which in our childhood we have frequently
traced the ruins Of an ancient building
which we remember almost entire; these re-
membranes sweep over the mind with ar
enchanting power of tenderness and melan-
choly. at whose bidding the pleasures, the
business, the ambition ofthe present moment
fade and disappear. Our finer feelings are
generally not more grateful to the fancy than
moral to the mind. OF this tender power
which remembrance has over us, several
uses might be made this divinity of mem.
DRY, did we worship it Alright, might lend its
aid to our happiness US welt as our virtue.
-'''A Anonymous.
REMARKAnLE REsuscrTATroN FROM DRowNINe.-
Friday morning. last week, as the steamer Hannibal
on its passage down the river just above Randolph
had finished wooding and put out into the river.
passenger. Horace Gridley, Esq, member oithe CT
" Council Of Natchez. il, attempting TO walk dowr
the forward steps from the PASSENGER to the boile
deck slipped and plunged deep into the river, clear O
the wheels and adrift in the Mississippi. Mr.. Grid
the hoat, and thus rendered unable 10 help himself
When he rose he was not able to see any object o.
any side. He seemed to be alone in waste Of wa
tcrs--soon snnk agnin, and with perfect conscious
ness that all was over with him. srangled in the wa
ter and became insensible.
The cry having been given that man was over
board the steamer came too as soon as possible anc
the boat sent out to hunt for the body. After consid
CtNuiC sCuiCu tlicy o'kne ~ Nie
senseess body, pulled il in, gained the steamer, and
went through the us,al process Of resusci,ating the
drowned, at length with success.
Mr.. Gridley was supposed to have been in the wa
terneariy quite twenty minutes. He speaks in tSe
warmest terms OF the care and attention of the Cap
tain Of the Hannibal, and Of every officer and kant
on board from the commander to the cook. The dear
est relatives could not have been more prompt in res
cuing the body or more energetic in the means Of re
suscitation.
The Hannibal. its commander, officers, and crew
should be remembered. II is fine boat manned b,
whole soulod felows.-Nafches Free Trader July IS.
MEXICO. .1@#
BY the arrival Of the schooner Essex, Captain Cot
tre, at New-Orleans on the 10th inst, intelligence
has been received partially confirming the rumo
which had already reached us of the resignation o
Santa Anna. and the election of Gen. Bravo to fhs
Presidential Chair. This important intelligence hae