Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1842-09-08

wicked" as to sell stuff which they call the very
genuine Thompsoniana.
But the science does not st p here there is the
| bone and sinew Doctor Ii, who cures all sores and
maladies Ofthe blood, and, as knowing person in
sisted till he became wroth incredibly; that
he cut open men alive and performed operations in
there and sewed them up, and cured them too'-aye
| and cured them II he had gone further, and said
that he could catch the substantial disease, and show
the tif:Le monster the point of knife, it would
have been rather plausible. This Hercules in med-
cine has an Office in frequented place, and in the
window Is placed sign running thus DIR. H. gives
notice that he will sell any of his medicines, to any
body, in any quantity. Now is not this gerry singu
lar; it really cannot be cyphered out without resort
ing to the rules for the Addition and Subtraction of
Federal Money
There are several ludicrous specimens of import
ed mendicants who daily parade the streets for
precarious subsistence. One, who seems to be quite
pet among the people, entertains all who wish to
hear, and many more no doubt, with some indifier-
\ ent German airs on asthmatic guitar, with vo-
cal repetition in tones initiative OF mocking bird
which is executed in perfect characters, that he
gets fed with many crumb. 1t is pitiful circum-
stance that such fouls are birds of passage; they
are fit for anything but to feather an eagles nest
Mr.. Editor-It is interesting to observe how many
| individuals of honorable note" were natives of
| some obscure hamlet among our own rocky hills
If the several towns in this county would take pains
to "count up their Jewels" it would be SEEM that in
this respect at least it bears enviabe precedence.
From the little town OF Bethlem we recolect the
following. who were mostly boys together: E.
Dr. SETH BIRD.
Rev. CHARLES PRENTICE, late OF South Canaan.
DAVID Prentice, LII. d., Professor in Geneva
College.
Rev. B. c. MErss, a Pioneer Missionary to Ceylon.
SAMUEL. J. HrtcHcocK, LII. D., Law Professor in
Yale Collie, &c.
HARVEY P. PEEr, Principal of the New-York Deaf
! and Dumb ASYLUM. STARS.
| A Story Of Crime and Wae.-Six years ago
a wealthy and influential widower of forty
five, named -, of Chelsea, VT, hired an
amiable and beautiful girl of eighteen, NAM
ed Mary T, to assume the care of his
children and household. A few months
since they were seen to ride away together !;
and in the next Woodstock paper appeared
reimbursement that they had been m ,rred
at that place by an Episcopal clergyman.
! They returned as man and wife, and have
SO lived until short time since when -
dismissed the unfortunate woman from his
house, alleging that. they were not married /!
Whether she had been utterly deceived by
, sham marriage, or had consented to a
deceit in order to save herself from inevita-
| BILE shame, cannot now be aScertained.
The poor victim, driven in disgrace from
the house in which she had SO long been re-
garged as virtuous wife, and thus render
cd an outcast from society, dared not to re-
turn to her relatives; she went elsewhere
and procured employment; but the finger
of ScOrn was pointed at her, and i'm whatev-
err company, she found herself fallen,
lonthed, and Stunned. She could not endure
this; and returned at length, by night, to
the house of her destroyer, and begged pite.
ously for shelter and protection, declaring
that she had wandered long without food and
was starving. Atlength The door was opened
to her, from the dread of attracting the aiten.
ton of tho neighborood. She was fed and
turned away, with strict orders never to show
herself there again. She left ; but where
could she GO? All day she wandered in the
woods aud lodges adjacent; and in the night,
faint and shivering, she crept back to the on
ly place where she could justly claim pro.
| lection, and cried for home. She was re-
PEELED /; but the noise aroused ncighbors, who
insisted that she should be allowed shelter.
1t was agreed that she might stay that night,
but should leave in the morning, a neighbor
agreeing to take her to her nearest relatives.
I"l will 60 il alive" was the only promise
that could be extorted from her. She went
to her room. and the next morning was found
in jt-dead! Deserted, lOathed, despair
ing, without friend or hope in the world,
the wIetched victim had committed suicide.
QUAKER POLICY WITH THE INDIANS.
mot dror Of Quaker blood aoas ever SHED by
an Indian"
Such is the expression of the historian, as
he finishes up the early history Of Pennsyl-
vania and the fact speaks volume in favor
Of the cause Of peace. The reader Of our
country's carly history-'vearied and sad
dened and sickened by almost constant hos
tilities, wars, and bloodshed, between the
aborigenes and the early settlers of what are
now Virginia. the New England States, the
Carolinas, &c.-is happily relieved OF turn.
ing to the history of William Penn. Instead
Of force and arms on one hand, and the
toInahawk and scalping-knife on the other,
we behold Penn without arms, and in the
dress Of peace, and the calmut and as a
consequence naturally to be expected, per-
feet pence and friendship existed, in the
stead of ambushes, massacres and burn.
ings. Beneath a large elm tree, says Ban.
croft, VIM. Penn, surrounded BY few
friends, in the habiliments of peace. met the
numerous delegation of the Lcnni and Lena.
pc tribes. I'VE et,'-such were the words
Of Penp,-' on the broad pathway Of good
faith and good will no advantage shalt be