Litchfield enquirer., 1841-02-18

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| For many distant age;
r, Ye love to watch the inspiration caught
From your snblme examples, and to cheer
The iaIntlng student to your high career.
| Ye come TO nerve the soul
(Llke HIM " no near III At0ner* stood, when fIE,
trembling, saw round him roll
The wrathiHl p0rtens Of Gethsemane,)
| WIth courage strong-the promise We have known
| And proved, rapt from the eternal throne.
Still keep. oh ! keep me near you!
Compass me rennd with your immortal wings
Still let my glad soul hear you
Striking your trumphs from your golden strings,
Until mount with you, and Join the song.
An p a1gG ke yG ~. mid I'd the white robed Thong
LUKE xxi, 40: "And there appeared an angel
unto him from heaven, strengthening him."
sPUNK.-The editor of the Fayette mississippi
Advertiser, Van Buren, man, thinks that it is bad
enough to be beat without being compelled to pub.
fish the election file says he will see Harri-
and every body else in Guinea before lie will do it,
and then he wont: hear him: what, must we strip
bare our backs, and permit the wings to clap their
hands ut the sight Of every bruise To publish the
returns would be tantamount 10 an acknowledgment
of having received pair Of black eyes in Pennsyva.
mia, bloody nose in New York, our teeth knocked
down our throat in Tennessee, and sundry kicks un,
der the ribs in Georgia, Mississippi, &c.
% For election returns. see wing papers,
The Oldest Postmasfer.-Dr Thomas o. H. Cros-
we'll has held the Office Of Postmaster in Cnt,skI for
nearly half century. He was appointed in 1892,
under the administration Of Gen. Washington
good chance for speculation.-The following ad.
vsrtisement under The head Of Wife Wanted is in the
Batesvile (Ark.> News. Any gal what's got bed,
Calico dress, Cofecpot and skillet, knows how to cut
briclies, can make hunin shirt, and knows how to
take Of Children can have my services till death
parts both .s...
Newspaper as it should be.-A journal Of the right
kind, is in which the father and mother Of an in
teres,ng family can put perfect confidence, without
first critically examining to whether il be freight
ed with the deadlest moral poison, as it enters the
domestic Eden 1t is from which is carefully ex-
cluded every sentiment which might by its mpropri
ETY., raise upon the pure, unsued cheek Of modesty
and chastity the slightest nge of conscious shame
How unlike those sewers of moral filth which send
out their blackened pollule the earth is
such journal.-N. Y. Democrat.
The National Intelsencer states that among the
fashionable arrivals in Washington, ais n Chinese
Boodhist. from Canton, accompanied by Doctor PAR
KER, who has been for years resident Of that
Inch-shoo-yin, Or student Of letters. He yeser-
day presented to the President, and. among other
questions he asked, in the gura,ivo language of the
EAST hoU long has ErceencY had been the security Of
The people. meaning how long he had been President"
What Mr.. Van Buren's ANSWER was the Intelligencer
does not s'ate.-Bosion alias.
Lucky Escope. young girl while crossing rail-
road somewhere in England. was hit by a snow ball
in the face and fell between the rails. Twenty five
laden coal wagons passed her and did not inure
her. We remember q similar incident on the Co.
lumba railroad. near the Paoli. black fellow slip
ped and fell while running before the engine, and the
whole train went over him. AS soon the last car
passed he jumped to his feet and sung out Justify
Ell locoiuoky can't kill dis niger"
Good Salaris.-It is stated that the sum received
BY the United States District Attorney at New ork,
during the last year S23.OOOO7 by the Clerk ofthe
Court sl9,469e2 The Marshal Of Mississippi receiv-
cd $s7, $50. A new law has been reported, to make
these and all similar officers salary Offices at $4,000
per annum.
In one town in Vermont is said that all the adult
inhabitants but three are professors Of religion, and
that nearly all belong to the same denomination ot
Christians.
In clearing out well at Wilmington, Del. few
days since, vessel fourd, containing gold coins
TO the value Of about $780, which, for aught that is
known, may have been deposited there durng the
revolutionary war. . ..... .
DeLasOare.-There IS not, we are informed in this
gallant little State single dstilleFy to be found The
lovers Of antiquity can be gratifed with view Of The
ruins Of an old one OF the banks Of the Bra ndvwne
i F... Phil Gas.
The report Of a Valuation Committee to the Legis
lature Of Massachusetts, makes the ratable property
in that state but a little short Of three hundred mil
lions of dollars more than lO9 millions Of which belong
to Boston. + 'f''t
The remains of Napoleon are now in six collins
one Of tin, second Of mahogany third Of Lead a
fourth also Of lead, separated from that within it by
sawdust and wedges Of wood-he fifth, the sarcopha
gus of ebony-and the sixth, the outer case, Of oak
AMALGAMATIoN.--The Pennsylvania House of Re
representatives. have passed bill ga to 25) to prevent
the intermaniage OF blacks and whites.
Il The fact that many houses were blown mp in ihs
effort to stay the progress OF the great fire in New
York, in 1885, will be recoIlected The owners sueC
the corporation for damages. and the cases wen
through several courts until il reached the Court fo
the Correction Of Errors OF issue there have
the following paragraph from the New-York Stand
ard by recent reports Of the Court of Errors, nov
in session at Albany, it will be seen tina: in five Of thu
New York fire cases carried to it from the Suprem
Court, the decision has been affirmed. This release
the city from the liability for buildings torn down
stop confnsraliOn."