Litchfield enquirer., 1842-06-23

c.ou"'Ty' as Tar So0th as Virginia, can beaI
living testimony to its beauties Just now. on
saturday morning after an Hnhurried
breakfast, we left New York, and were In
season on the next afternoon to- eat a late din.
ner some miles below Richmond on Jane
River, where our astonished eyes were greet.
ed with, not only the PAST novelties Of the
season, such as Strawberries, green peas, &c.
nut the PRESENT, such as raSpberries, cherries.
new potatoes, &c. &c. But what more than
all astonished US was the sight of the harvest
Haying is over. The clover crop is stacked.
The wheat harvest was rapidly going on.
and the fields were scattered far and wide
with the rich sheafs of the bountif1l grain.
Express.
SALE OF THE New York RA!1RoAD,-tVitFf.
reference to the advertised sale of Railrords5
in this State the Washington True Wing has,
the following remarks:
With all our hearts we cheer on this work
OF Loco-Focoism. 1t can't stop now. and
the end is at hand. When all public works
are stopped, the poor have no bread, the
people no money; when labor goes begging
tor employment, and the products of labor
for market; when industry and talent of
every kind, sits down, like Patience on a
monument, sucking their own claws: when
British enterprise, laughing at our folly and
profiting thereby, shall draw the products
of the West through the Welland canal !:
when the people shall be taxed to paw Ma.
tional and State debts, without any money!
when the tariff of foreign nations shall get
our last penny, for want of a countervailing
tariff of our own then, we think, and little
before, Loco-Focoism will be pretty much.
used up. So mote it be.
DEATH OF INSTRUMENTATION Alexander
was at Babylon, having spent whole night
in carousing, second feast was. PROMISED to-
him. He went accordingly, and there were
twenty guests at the table. He drank the
health ofevery person in the company. and
then pledged them severally. Alter this,
called for Hercules cup, which held an in
credible quantity. 1t was filed. when he
poured it all down, drinking to a Macedoni-
an of the company, Proteas by name and
pledged him in the same extra
VACANT bumper. He had no sooner swallow
ed it, than he fell upon the floor. @Here.
them" cried Seneca, describing the fatal eff
tects of drunkenness, "this hero, uncoRuuer-
ed by all the tolls of prodigious marches,
exposed to the dangers of seiges and CON-
bats. to the most violent extremes Of heat
and cold, here he lies, subdued by his intern
perance, struck to the earth by the fatal cup
of Hercules" In this condition he was
seized with a fever, which in few DAYS ter
minated in his death. No one, says PFatarch
and ARIA, then suspected that Alexander
was poisoned; the true poison which brought
him to his end was wine, which has kilIed
many thousands besides Alexander.
Discovery OF MuMMrEs At DURANGO; MEX
million of mummies it is stated, have
lately been discovered in the environs of Du-
range, in Mexico. They are in sitting
posture, but have the same wrappingsy bands
and ornaments, as the Egyptian. Among
them was found poniard of flint, with u
sculptured handle, chaplets, necklaces, &C.,
of alternately colosed beads; fragments Of
bones polished like ivory, fine.worked elias
tic tissues, (probably our modern India rub.
Der cloth,) moecasinS worked like those Of
our Indians now, bones Of vipers, &c. II re-
mains to continue these interesting research-
es. and America will soon become another
Egypt to antiquaries, and her ruins will go
back to the oldest period Of the world, show
ing, doubtless, that the ancestors of the Nom
tezumas lived on the Nile, and that their lux
urious civilization was broken aud overpow-
cred by the hardy hordes OF Asiatic Tartars,
who came down from Behring's Straits and
the Rocky Mountains. The scenes of Attilla
and Alaric in Rome and Greece, we've reher.
sed at an earlier day on the shores of Cali
forna, the plains of Mexico. II is unknown
of the mummies above mentioned, what kind
of embalmment was used, or whether ID was
nitrous dispositions in the caves where they
are found. A fact of importance is stated,
that the shells OF the necklaces are ofa ma
rine shell found at Zicatecas, on the Pacific.
where the Columbus of their FORE fathers.
probably. therefore, landed from the Malay,
Hindoostan, or Chinese coast, or from Isle
L. s.NA6 N1 SnA
A FELLOW from Kentucky went into the
store of fashionable milliner in Canal
street.
"Have you any skirts?" asked he.
"Plenty Of all kinds" answered Madam
w.
"What do you ask cord T." said the chap.
"a cord g. replied Madam w.
"Yes want about a cord. Up in our
diggins the petticoats and things has gin out.
I see you advertise corded skirts, and I
thought. while my hand was in, I'd take
what you had corded up"
The milliner fainted.-Cresent City.
AspARAGus.-A writer in the Erie Chrou.
icle says, that the best way to kill weeds on
asparagus beds is water them literally with
beef pork brine, or any salt brine. The salt
kills the weeds while it nourishes asparagus
which is a maritime plant, and grows tho
better for having salt.
BuFrALoEs.-Some Yankee has started a
live Buffalo speculation in the west. Last
summer he bought 80 live Buffaloes of the
Indians, taken BY them up the Missouri
They were kept on Gov. Duncan's farm in
Illinois last winter, and are to be taken TO an
eastern market this spring. The same geu-
teman has an elk in the drove.