Litchfield enquirer., 1841-02-11

female Academy:
"Imagine for q moment, that the beauii-
full diamond is placed i'll your hand, ON
which YOU are requested TO engraVc u sem
llment, which must be read at the great day
OF account in the presence OF listening an
gels ard assembled worlds! What care
would YOU exercise, what industry would
YOU use, to select from the vast common
wealth Of letters q sentence, pure, chaStc,
refined and holy! No costello pains--no
efforts would bo lacking Permit me then
to say to you-that this is your present situ-
alton, Precious innocent hearts, i'll all the
purity of childhood's delightful bloom, are
placed in your keeping, and the duty OF en-
craving principles there, which will outliVe
the sun, and live--and still live-and live
forever, deyolycs on YOU" off, ., 3D.
EARTHQUAKE SHock.--About 4 O'Clock
yesterday morning, this city, and the vIcln-
| ity, were visited by Il shock oi an earth
quake, which created considerable alarm
with those who felt it. 1t was SO violent
that several who were in the. street at the
time, whom we have seen, could scarcely
keep their feet. The cupola of the Prince
street watch house shook very much, and u
stove-pipe on the opposite side was shaken
down. Windows clattcrcd mcrrlly, and the
shaking of houses in the upper part OF the
city was felt very sensibly. We learned at
Jersey City yesterday morning, that, the
shock was quite as severe on that side OF the
river, as it was on this side, and that it &C.
casioned good deal Of alarm there. We
have not as yet heard of any serious injury
having been produced by this strange and
alarming visitation. - .... .....s
Since penning the preceding paragraph,
we learn that the interior OF NeW-Jersey,
and Long Island, were greatly agitated by
the shock. From Flushing, we hear par
ticularly, that the commotion OF the houses,
windows, &C., was very alarming. The
noise occasioned by it in this city appeared
like the distant runlbing of thousands of
carts over our pavcmcnts, and induced ma
nv from whose chambers the light was ex-
cludcd, to imagine they had oversight them
selves, and that the streets were alive with
morning vehicles. 1t seems to have been
heard simultaneously in every part OF the
city. Near the Columbia College, the noise
resembled the rolling of y heavy laden
Pennsylvania wagon. In Hudson street,
near St. Johns Park, in the upper part Of
Greenwich street., and in Vandewater street,
the sound was the same. A house IN the
last mentioned street shook SO as to awake
the inmates,-N. Y. &tar. ,, ..n ..,, hnr
. The Administration has called on Con-
gress for $,:1s,350,O00 for the Florida war;
$l5O,OOO to pay pensioners OF the navy
although, six years ago, tho sum IN the
hands of the administration to pay them,
was $1,2OO,OO0. There is, also, a call for
$5,OO0,0OO Of Treasury notes Immediately =
and all this, after the President and the, Sec
retary of the Treasury had said there would
be large balance in the Treasury on the
first of January-and the Secretary of the
Treasury had said, that nothing further
would be required than he had stated, and
given estimates of expenditures necessary
and that no such appropriations should
be made, to swell the public debt! -5a
Boston Nero Journal.
Singular Seduction and Suicide in Buffalo.
One of the most remarkable suicides that
ever occurred in this era of suicides, is one
since, of young lady in Buffalo. We have
the particulars from the N. Y. papers ,...
"She was the daughter of q substantial
and respectable citizen of that place, and
moved in good society, of which she was till
the seducer blasted her fame, an ornament.
She was about seventeen, of. fine figure,
and some pretensions to beauty of a lively
and pleasing disposition-and as the sequel
has shown, of strong passions, and great
strength Of character. She became a VIC
tim to the arts of a man well known in the
financial world, by his connection with
late banking house in Canada which had
its branches in Buffalo and this city,, ~;
The unfortunate girl, having become en-
ciente, eloped with him from Buffalo, and
they were on their way to New York, when
they were ovcrtaken by her friends and
she taken back to her home. Unable to
endure the disgrace Of the exposure, conse-
qucnt upon this movement, and excluded
from the society in which she had been ac-
customed to move, she resolved to put an
end to her existence, and selected poison by
arsenic as the means; and for the scene, a
fashionable party, at the house Of her mar
ried sister, to which, she had been given to
understand, under the circumstances, she
should receive no invitation.
She took the poison, q dose sufficient to
defy. all attempts to save her, and proceeded
to dress Tor the party. 81 shall die in the
midst of them," she said, as she dressed
Its terrible effects commenced sooner, how
ever, than she expected; and while attiring
herself with unusual elegance, she, was
seized with the agonies of death. Refusing
all assistance, she died lamcnting only that
she had failed to reach the party. and die,
as she had before purposcd, in the scene of
social enjoyment; from which the conse e;
quenccs Of her folly had excluded her, and
among those, whose cold scorn had, driven
her to despair, madness, and sclf-destruc-
ton; victim to her own passions, the viii
lany of base wretch, and the customs Of
society, which, while the most guilty escape
almost unscathed, visit upon the weak, and
unfortunate, its severcst Vengeance"
Great Fire and Loss Of Life in PHILADELPHIA