Litchfield enquirer., 1839-06-27


 Globe and Enquirer, are shouting glorious victory jn the Old Dominion" and affect the liveliest satisfaction at the result of our elections. Of course it is all afEectation, de. signed to gull the distant public and operate upon the approaching elections. The lead. CTS here know the desperate straight they are | in; they not only feel and know that they are beaten now, but that their late defeat fore shadows a worse defeat next spring. They know they put forth their whole strength in the late contest-Money, lies, bank influence and big names, all were put in requsitiOn, were exhausted, and proved unavaiIing.- I They can no more be resOrted to with even as much effect as they lately had. The ca- 1 lumnies against MT. Clay will be stale and unproftable--the Judges will scarcely ven- ture again the use of their names and station to the purposes of faction, and the extraordi- nary spectacle of the President of the Bank entering the political arena will fail in future to strike terror into the hearts of the People, 1 Recent experience has proved that that mon- eyed functionary IS neither Onniscient nor on1nipotent. a.s
 We repeat, that the Party here, whatever they may say to keep up their credit at Washington, they feel and knpsc, that, in put ting forth their unwonted exertions, and elec- ting only 56 members of the House of Dele gates, they exhausted their strength and arc l thers cannot save them and the conscious ness of their undone condition will add to the discomfturey and forever keep them down.
 Whilst they are thus exhausted, dispiritcd and depressed the Whig Party is buoyant with hope, and gaining daily aecessions from the youth of the country. When the next batch of this class -20ths of whom are Whigs) shall come upon the stage, scarcely a vestige will be left of the sink or swim par ty in the Commoawealth.-RichmOnd Whig.
 Trial for Mwder.--Nathan Smith was tri- cd at Lowell last week for the murder of his wife Hannah. in Sept. 1898. Smith, it seems, had Quarreled with his wife, for several years previous to the murder, and a separa- tion had taken place. She lived in Wayland, having with her two young children between five and seven years of age, and Smith had thrown himself upon the town of Sudbury where he belonged, and was supported as a pauper. The other children, being five in number, were living at different places, un- der Mrs. Smiths general direction, and tho proceeds of their labor, were in part appro- priated to her support. On the night of the 27th of September, Smith, according to his confession at the primary examination, pro- ceeded from Sudbury to Wayland, and reached the house occupied by his wife about l o'clock. Before arriving there. he cut Q green birch club, determining. that if any of his boys were there, not to be driven off at any hazard. Upon reaching the house, he broke open window, and sprung into tho room where Mrs. Smith and a young child were in bed. She jumped out of her bed and slipped on loose dress, and attempted to escape from Smith. He took hold of her and backed her on the bed, and took iack- knife from his pocket. She pleaded earnest ly for her life, and promised to live with inc prisoner, if he would spare her. Smith re- piled that he wouldn't trust her again. and immediately stabbed her in the neck and se- parated the jugular vein. The child was Jeff upon the bed unharmed. With the same knife he then cut his own throat, and their covered himself up with his wife's clothing upon the floor. In this situation they were both discovered by one of their sons, who testified on trial that he found his mother lv- ing upon the bed iRher blood, dead and coM, with the wounds precisely as before descri- bed. and his father lying on the floor with his throat ci.t, although alive.
 Smith was very incorporate man, and always had nbuscd his wife when under the influence of liquor. His counsel attempted to prove that he was insane but could only make out that he sometimes appeared singu- lar when he was intoxicated. The iury im- mcdiately returned a verdict of GUILTY.
 Friday, Smith was sentenced to be hung.
 [Smith hanged himself in his cell, in the Lowell Jail, the 12th inst.l v
 The Weather.--s Don't you calg this all.fir. ed hot weather :? said fresh casght Yankee yesterday to an old residenter. , j Hot ! oh. no; this is nothing. We uso the short thermometer, now. Wait till June when we get the long ones up, if you want to see hot weather.' IF ,t-aA.
 'Thank you, rather gurss you'll see ne a takin' rather long strides for the northard- jand -eastard afOrc the season gets so hot that them are thermometers can't give the idea. Mines one hundred and twenty degi ees long; when the mercury piles over in that, Fun o-p-h.-N. o. Picayuns.
 An affecting incident occurred at Lynn on Saturday. little girl about two years of age, child of MT. Ingalls,, wandered away from its parents in the afternoon. and on the most diligent search could not be found dl- ring the evening. On Sunday morning the search was renewed by many people in vain. An intelligent dog belonging to the family, understanding that something was wanting, set of in pursuit. In short time he return. ed, and endeavored by significant signs to in- duce some one to follow him, but human sa. gacity in this instance, as in many before, was inferior to canine. Again he went away, and again returned, and by repeated whi. nings and Awnings was at length successful in making himself understood. "A person tol. lowed him, and found the little sufferer in a swamp. where she was standing up to her arms in mud and water. She must have re- mained there during the whole or greater part of the night without sleep ~ 7rGDeHer. F.
 Mou,nfal Casualty.-We are informed that Q child aged about fen years, the daughter of Mr. Abraham Welch, who resides about fen miles in the forest. north of Lake Pleasant,