Litchfield enquirer., 1841-12-23


 The following stanzas by Miss Gould. from " The Token, is one of the pretes little conceits We have for long time met with.
 FROST.
 The frost looked forth one still clear night,
 And he said, Now shall be out of sight. So through the valley and over the height,
 In silence I'll take my way;
 1 will not go like that clustering train,
 The wind and the snow-the hail and the rain, Who make much buster and noise m VaIn,
 But I'll be as busy as they!
 Then he went to the mountain and powderedits crest, He climbed up the trees and their boughs he dress d, With diamonds and pearls. and over the breast or the quvering lake he spread coat of mai that it need not fear The downward point of many spear. That he hung on it's margin far and neah Where rock could rear it's head.
 He went to the windows of those who slept,
 And over each pane, like fairy, crept; Wherever he breathed, wherever he stepped, By the light of the morn were seen
 Most beautiful things there were flowers and trees, There were bevies of birds and swarms o: bees. There cities with temples and towers; and these All pictured in silver sheen Bu, he did one thing that was hardly fair, He reeped in the cupboard. and finding there, That all had forgotten for him to prepare, "Now just to set them thinking. I'll bite this basket of fruit, said he; :" This costly pitcher I'll burst in three! And the glass of water they've left for me Shall 'lchick' to tell them I'm drlnking' A Challenge ef Lore:-The following anecdote is too good to be lost. Two of our most respectable and benevolent citizens, whom we shall designate by B. and w., were in conversation respecting poor family who needed % od f Said you enqS Gngh tho other. "it you will wheel it down there in twenty minutes" "rll do it," responded B. The barrel of flour was purchased, and B. trundled it off, in com pliance with the challenge, through tho snow and ] 1rp,, dofV Vocf yIadHpn hearts n poor family, distance ot not less than mlle. l Il0mpshirs Gazette.
 A whole family were lately poisoned in Newport k. l., through carelessness. The father had mixed some arsenic with flour and Jeff it over night on shelf in the closet, to kill mice. The next morning his daughter gnorantly turned the whole with more flour into johnnycake she made for breakfast, o which all the family partook, and few hours after medies they all recovered, however, but the occur 1 renee should operate as a caution to others. IIaryford Courons. By the official statement of the Comptroller in an- other coluRn it will he tha aside from those of Buffalo, only of our Banks under the General Banking Law have failed this season, viz. the Staten Island, James, Cean, Washington Gin this city, Al legany Co, St. Lawrence and Watertown. The first ] two had failed before, and have not been in good credit this year or so The total circulation of the whole, seven is but s3S2 ,s22 including whatever bills they may have on hand, while their assets in the hands of the Comptroller amount to $42l ,O33.- These, if sold now, would not produce more than S20oOoO; so that, allowing the Banks to have no dollar The deficiency is caused by the sudden and extraordnary depreciation of State Stocks we'll as Real Estate It Presumabe, however, that they have other assets besides those pledged for the re- demption of their notes, and that the loss of the hold CTS will consequently be lghter.-N '. Tribune. "Have you voted r asked political drummer of loaier who was hanging, around the polls, as he fbrISt a ot into h band No hor', Jo',. mean to- that's more. till the THIRD day, about sun down. Nobody shakes hands with me, or treats, AFTER have voted. You don't catch me"
 Louisiana Chronicle.
 Henuy Tsrdict-TKs morning in the Circuit Court ot the United States, the jury in the case of the United States vs; James A. Reeside, gave ,. verdict Tn favor of MT. Reeside for the sum of $l88, ,496 G. So says the Philadelphia Gazette of the 6th.. l. SingMLnr Phsnomenn.-The Lexington (Ky) Intel-
 gencer states that there is young lpdy living in that vicinity from whose thumb there have recently grown hairs, some of them 26 inches in length. The editor says that he has seen the young lady and vouch for the truth of the story The hairs grow from the inner side of the thumb, and sometimes from under the nail; some of them soft, others like brstles, and they vary in color size, and length Their growth is very rapid. A number of scientific gentlemen have examined this singular phenomena, but can give no explanation oft
 A meeting of the Wings of Orange county, N. C. has nominated HENRY CLAY Of Ky. for President of the United States Senators Mangum and Graham were present, and advocated the election.
 Sad 7ragedy.-A young man in Canton, Illinois, named Selfndge, a week or two since pointed rife at young and amiable sister in sport, and instantly shot her dead. The unfortunate young man has since been deranged.
 Hills Patrio: says, Daniel Webster, like Peter, denies that he ever belonged the old federal party This is the first time ever heard that Peter member of the " federal" party. We knew that No aha democrat of the first water-was member of the Hartford Convention, and that Lot or rather his wife. was standing monument of Salt River locofo- coism. Methusaleh' too, we believed, belonged to the Essex Junto and if we mistake noi Cain bore the radical mark on his forehead-but Peter-by St. Paul it required more than three crowines of the Chap mans of that day to make him confess to the sins charged by Hills Patriot CLaremOnt Eagle.
 REecutiOn.-Patrck Russell, who had been sen- tenced for the murder of his wife in June last in M York, was executed in the prison yard in that city, between 10 and II o'clock A. M. on the sth inst As the law required the execution to be private, only a small number of persOns were present He was attended in his last hours by two eleTgYnen of the Catholic persuasion.