Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1840-01-30

the object they design to promote, there is
often some provision annexed to the fulfil
ment of the design, either irrelevant or 'ab-
! soIuieIy a clog to its accomplishment. The
great legacy of Mr.. Girar0 was irtrmmelled
with conditions, which, should the radicalism
OF the present day GET rank hold upon the
laws will lead possibly to endle IS litigation
ana eventual waste of that huge donation Ia
the city OF Penn. We have other instances
40 mind but one of the most singular is that
mentioned in the Providence Journal. In
1924, Col. E. X. DEXTER died in that CITY, af.
ter bequeathing the whole of his large prop.
erty to the town of Providence, for the pur.
pose OF founding an Asylum for the benefit
OF the poor. lie made condition, howev-
er, requiring that the town of Providence
should within twenty years after his decease,
erect all around upon the extensive lines of
n's larm, upon which the Asylum was 10 be
erected, a good, permanent stone wall, ~
least three feet thick at the bottom, and at
least eight feet Highland to be placed upon
a foundation made Of small stones, and as
thtck as the bnftom of the wall. and sunk two
feet into the ground. If the above conul-
ticus were not strictly complied with, in the
tinhe mentioned (twenty years from 1920
then the whole Of his property was to revert
back to his heirs at law.
completion of the wall, in just ten years and
four months from the laying Of the first
foundation stone. The wall, by actual ad.
measurement, is ascertained Ia be three hum
drGd and seventy seven rods, seq thousand
one hundred and fre feet lover one mile 10
circumference. 1t is eight feet three inches
Highland is built of the first quality Of ma
terials, and nothing is left undone, to ensure
it to stand for ages.-Empire State.
Part Of tro Ssories.-An old gentleman, no.
table for his truth and veracity, once called
some listeners of his extraordinary activity
when youth. He was once, he said, going
out to NOW, and deer jumped across the
road. He pursued him, and after a hard
chase succeeded in catching him by the hind
legs and killing him. The lads expressed
more surprise at the relation than was ex.
pectcd, and he qualified it by saying that a
crust Of snow through which the deer's feet
him up, gave an advantage, without which,
he might not have been able to overtake so
fleet an animal. "Ah, but, (said they,) we
thought that you was going to moving" He
considered minute. ~ believe (said he) l
have part of two Stories"
The pILGRMs.-" Methinks see ii now,
| that one solitary, adventurous vessel, the
Mayfower of forlorn hope, freighted with
prospects Of future state, and bound across
the unknown sea. Ibeheld it pursuing with
thousand misgivings, the uncertain, the to-
dious voyage. Suns rise and set, and weeks
and months pass, and winter surprises them
on the deer, but brings them not the sight OF
the wished for shore. see them now scan.
tily supplied with provisions, crowded almost
to suffocation IN their il.stored prison, delay
ed by Gains, pursuing circuitous route
and now driven in fury before the raging
tempest, on the high and giddy waves. The
awful voice of the storm howls through the
rigging. The laboring masts seemed strain
ed from their base the dismal sound OF the
pump is heard ;--the ship leaps, as 1t were
modly. from billow 10 billow; the ocear
breaks. and settles with engulphing floods
over the floating deck, aud beats with dead
encd weight, against the staggered vessel.
sec them, escaped from the perils. pursuing
their oil but desperate undertaking, and land
ed at last after five months passage, on the
ice.clad rocks of Plymouth,-weak and
weary from the voyage,-poorly armed.
scantily provisioDcd, depending upon the
charity of their ship-master for draft OF
beer on hoard, drinking nothing but water
on shore,-without shelter,-without means,
surrounded by hostile tribes. Shut now
the volume of history. and tell me. on.any.
principle of human probability, what shall
be the fate Of this handful of adventures
Tell me, man Of military science, in how ma.
ny months were they all swept on ~ the
thirty savage tribes enumerated within the
early Limits Of New. England Tell me
politician, how long did this shadow Of col.
ony. on which your conventions and treaties
had not smiled, languish on the distant coast
Student of history compare for me the BAT.
fed projects, the deserted settlements. the
abandoned adventures of other times, and
| find the parallel Of this. Was II the winters
storm beating upon the houseless heads Of
women and children; was 1t hard labor and
SPARE meals; was II disease-waSit the tom.
ahawk,- il the deep fiialady of blight.
ed hope, a ruined enterprise, and broken
heart. aching In it's last moments, at the re.
collection of the loved and left, beyond the
sea was II some, or all of these United, that
hurried this forsaken company I'd. their mel.
ancholy fate And is IL possible that mel.
Their Of these causes, that not all combined
were able to blast this bud of hopel Is Il
possible, that from beginning SO feeble, &C
frail, so worthy, not 50 much Of admiration
as of pity, there has gone forth progress SC
steady, growth 70 wonderful, reality so i'm
portani, a promise yet 10 be fulfilled, so gio-
rious ?"-GOreTnor Everett.
Lane SeminGry.-O readers have been informed
that the Rev. Dr. Dickinson. Of Lane Seminary, has
accepted an appointment TO professorship in the
Auburn Theological Seminary. A report 10 nov
aAoat that Dr. BeecheT 10 expected 70 take the paste
raj charge Of church 10 Philadelphia; and that Lane
Seminary will DO abandoned. We can hardly cred
j, such unpleasant intelligence fgGfio"aiisf
Singular Preservation. Mrs. Barnun,. Of this town
los. sheep in the first snow storm which visited u'
this season, and ater having been buried in the sno~
for seventeen days, found on Saturday last in 81
exhausted stsr, basssill alive. The poor animal has
remained IN tie snow during this long period witou
an;ou,hful 10 eat -SGamford SentiSel.