Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1840-02-06
THE FUNERAL AT SEA.
By Henry James Finn, Dho scds lost on board a
steamboat L.eriMgfon.

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seem'd hush'd, to halIow the frlendIess dead.
And heavily heaved on the gloomy sea, sst |
Ahe ship that SHELTERED that homeless one |
AS though his funeral hour should he, [gone. |
when the waves were still and the winds were
And there he lay, in his coarse, cold shroud, j
y, And strangers were round the coftnless; !
N0L Kinsman was seen among that crowd, |
moi an eye 10 weep nor a lip to bless.
No sound from the church passing hell
was echoed along the pathless deep,
Anehearts that were far Away TO tell
where the mariner lies in his lasting sleep.
Not whisper then linger'd upon the air
Der his body one moment his messmafes bent;
out INC ptnng'ng sound Of The dead arns there,
l. ana me ocean now is his monument!
But many sigh and many tear .a
7hal ne oreathed and shed in the hours TO come,
men me widow and iatherless shall hear
81 HOW ne cled-tar, far from his happy home!
The Snor Storms of this winter have ex- |
ceeded in depth and intensity, any thing
WITHIN the recollection, of the Oldest inhabi-
tants. In the Valley, the snow lies two feet
upon n.level, good measure; but in the towns
west OF us, located upon the elevations which |
incline toward the summit level of the lofty |
BERKSHIRE Mountains, it will average four |
feet upon the ground. In fact, even to this
hour, many roads remain unbroken-the
cepth OF snow being such, as TO prevent all
intercourse of the isolated inhabitants with
each other, except on snow shoes. The
breaking open Of the roads so that animals
alone could pass, occupied some days, and
| travelling with sleghs is now tedious and
dlsagreeablc. In many places the depth of
the snow is so great, amounting to fifteen feet
in some spots, that track has been beaten
down upon the summit, and the traveller goes
over the tops of the lofty snow-banks. In
/ nj vv,Ch has, svnfN n
died, and SO shut up was his family by the
depth OF the snow, that four days expired be-
fore they could reach their neighbors with
the intelligence. We could fill column Of
narration, describing the tedious process OF
mails being disinterred by farmers and oxen,
and stages detained by the snow,with passen-
gers, through live-long nights, in passing
from village to village. Ofhorses getting in
to deep drifts and struggling until the ,yehic--
les were broken and the driver exha listed and
finally left until help could be procured,mi!es
distant, to come to their rescue. OfindiVld-
uals both on foot and horse back, nearly
pershing in attempting to pass from only
one neighborhood to another, by unexpected
| ly getting beyond their depth and exhausting
themselves with vain efforts to obtain succor
or eXtricate themselves. People in towns
and cities, with we'll broken roads and even
shoveled foot-paths, can have no conception
Of the depth ofthe snow, and fatigue Of traV-
cling in the country.where banks like "Alps
on Alps arise blocking up the roads and
rendering the farm-houses almost invisible
TO the neighbors. We can only remark, that
the snow exceeds in depth any former win.
ter within tho recollection of people Older
than we arc, and that is saying something.
S Northampton Caurier.
Up here on the Litchfieli and Goshen hills
the people can say ditto to the abovc.--Enq
I APPEARANCES feature in the condition
of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom,
4 ana which is aided by the facilities that COM
mcrce and manufactures afford for It's expo
rience and operation, is great attention and
homage to appearances, and what is mis-
called responsibility. IF this attention were
directed to what constitutes real respectable
ity--that is, something deserving OF, and
commanding respect it would DO we'll
| Unfortunately. however, this homage IS not
paid to superiority of understanding or rec
iitude of morals, but merely 20 appearances.
! If people are we'll dressed, live in good
house. and have good furniture, they are
called respectable people; and if they make
a show, and keep horses, gigs and carriages,
then they are very respectable. All this is
attributed to those persons, irrespective OF
their understandings or their morals; and
they may be simpletons or knaves--siill
they are respectable, whether the possessors
are SO or not. People seeing this, strain ev-
cry nerve and ply every energy to make an
appearance in the world. They say that APP
pearance is every thing now. They get In
to debt and impose upon others to prop up an
appearance which is beyond their station,
and smash at length. To the thinking few,
whilst this pretension exists It is ridiculous,
and when the bubble bursts 1t is contempt.
| BILE. This perverted and mischieyous view
Of repectability is the ruin of thousands, and
| furnishes the cunning with fine feast on
the credulity OF the superficial, and cnuses
the nation to abound with hypocrisy. and de-
ceit, and private suffering, and anguish, and,
to considerable extent, it operates to BAN
ish honor and integrity from the land.
| The only superiority Of man is under
standing and conduct; and those who pos
sess the best understanding, and show the
most irreproachable conduct, are the most
respectable, after all.
A Court in The Woods.-somc Days since \
| traveller called at public hou"c III Little
| Falls, with n horse and cutter, giving the
horse in charge of the ostier; he went to the
house. but soon returned 10 the barn to see
how his horse Jared bat 20 his establishment,
neither his horse nor the Irishmnn who at.
tended The stables could be found. Seeing
another horse and sleigh. he solicited tho
loan Of thenI to pursue the thief; and after
being absent for an hour returned with his
properly. "What has become Of the ostler I"
inoafred the landlord 81 rather suspect"
reioined the stranger, "that he will not re-
turn while am here !" and pursued his Jour-
ney to the west. Nothing moro was known
Of the Irishman for several days, when the
landlord seeing the track ola horse and cut
ter leading into the woods about two miles
from town, followed it until nc care to a man !
hanging to the limb of tree; when, behold, |
there was the osfLer dead-whicli the stranger |
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