Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1844-06-20

point around which the controversy must turn, re-
sembles the tact Of intuition, and when he has set
tied within himself, and by process Of his own,
the grand conclusion on which he must rest has
cause comes the display Of the energy of his reason,
in which his strength consists. He never asksyou,
he never entices you by the splendor Of his die
ton, to follow him to the goal on which hseye IS
intently fixed and where he is triumphantly to ar
rive. With the master-tact of an arch-magician,
he contrives to rivit your attention, and then he
forces you, willing not to the end whittier he IS
fastening, with the surprising energy of his own
career. Fortifying position after petition, raising
obstruction after obstruction, you heed him might
lily, wrestling with his labor, and if he is host
within himself no less than host can follow him.
Amid fog and gins, and snares and pitfalls, he is
never bewildered striding forward unentangled and
on solid ground.
In attacking the strong holdsof his adversary, he
is most cautious in selecting the point of his as
sault but he never triumphs by feint or sur
prise. You see him come up before it, with bat
tle-axe in hand and as he welds stroke after stroke
with that engine of destruction you see wing after
wing, and battlement after battlement tumbling
around him; and when he leaves it behind him,
not one stone is left upon another. But no
sooner has he raised the fortress than he turns him
to torture the garrison. From the shafts of his
casm, there can be no hiding place for his antago
mist under the sun. There is no essayng to turn
the magnity of the accuser, into pity for the ac-
turns him to his torture the lines of his counte-
nance, which were before full of impassioned earn
estness and lofty enthusiasm become intensive with
mingled pity and scorn, and curling his lip with
half formed smile of ineffable condescension, and
pointing his long bony finger to make the aim and
effect more sure, with tone, before which his vic
tim might wish to shrink away as the most insig-
nifcant of mortals, he hurls shaft which armor
can resist, which no parrying can turn aside.
A quick movement running through the house, las
if the breathing time of his audience had tells
you his argument is closed And now, in his turn,
he awaits the onset of his antagonist with that in
trepid GOODNESS which, in itself, would be an armor
proof against the dint of the most deadly of weap-
ons. Every nerve is as firm the nerve of Stole,
every feature is as rigid as iron. Not tremor
plays for an instant, on that countenance, where
thought has engravenits mastery in indelible lines.
He seems to retire within himself as within citadel
against which lances are shivered and the strokes
of the battle.axe thunder in vain and there dark
planning and Alone he rests himself, herculean and
secure When he rises to speak, every thing about
him is angular and awkwark. He rises slowly and
clumsily his arms hang handling by his side his
diminutive form is crouched and bent forward; his
eve is dull and expressionless; his first words are
often ill chosen and i'll spoken but the current
Of his thoughts begins to flow, as he becomes warm
ed with his subject his eye deepens with unwonted
fire, his form gradually rises to the stature of the
ger preparatory to give full play to every MUSCLE
and godlike action to every limb. LYRA.
Piainfeld, May 16, 1914.
Il Great RobJery.-A robbery was committed in
Albany Friday last. Mr.. H. Mckee, of Salem,
Washington county, N. ", arrived in that city
about seven o'clock in the morning, and Immediate
y repaired to the City Hotel, leaving carpet bag
and overcoat in the hail. and sat down to breakfast,
without giving his baggage in charge to any
On coming out, his carpet bag, containing ten thou
sand dollars, was gone. The robber, who was seen
leaving the hotel, was traced to the Mohawk rail-
road depot where he was too late for the cars and
was last seen going up Iydus street. Mr.. Mckee
offers two thousand dolars.for the recovery of the
money and arrest of the thief.
! P. S. The officers in New-York city, on Monday,
were on the look out A $50 note of the CONNER
cial Bank of Albany was changed at Houghs bro
| kers Office, by woman She was traced to hotel
next to the corner of Murray s. Washington streets.
Subsequently, the woman was seen in a cab with a
large quantity Of baggage, and she was overtaken
{ by an elderly man who told her the Boston Boat
had left. He requested that she should drive tothe
Battery Hotel and he would Join. her there. She
afterwards encountered one Of sthe officers, whom
she did not suspect as being on the look out, and
| asked him if the Boston boat had left She then
ordered the coachman to drive to the Battery Ho.
tel. Just at that moment another officer came up,
and they both concluded-to arrest the woman. Mr.
Sweet entered the cab and told the woman she
must consider herself arrested She said she would
order another coach, but that she was prevented
from doing. They went with her TO the hotel,
when the woman took something from one of the
small trunks. The officer finally replaced her in
the cab, and iuan instant after, the man who had
spoken with hcrin the street, came down. He was
immediately arrested. The man and woman were
then searched when an immense roll of bank notes
was found on the woman, nicely enclosed in sbus
tie that she had used to adorn her person, and
which, it is supposed she had taken from the trunk
Immediately before she had attempted to escape
from the coach. The two were then, taken to the
police Office where the money was counted and
found to be 9495, in notes Of fves and tens of the
Farmers and Mechanics and Exchange Bank of
Hartford, Connecticuty thus answering to the de-
scrption of money lost by Mr.. Mckee, and within
$50S Of that amount The suspected rogue gave
his name as John Daily He is about so years of age
hair thin and nearly white, which was covered
with short cut brown wig, and pair of false
used, probably to disguise himself. He appears to
be an Englishman by birth, and from every APP
pearance, is cunning shrewd rogue. The woman
is young and very good looking, and says her name
is Elizabeth Hanson
Repatriation the NJ Z. Courier & Enqt1er.s
POLICE OFFICE-WEDNESDAY
Attempt Suicide by the RoLber DGiiey.--Between
5 and o'clock this morning. one Of the Deputy
Keepers of the City Prison visited the cell of John
Daley, who was arrested last evening together
with his paramour, the girl Hanson, for robbing on
Friday last Mi. Mckee. while. at Albany, of his
carpet bag containing $1,000 and odd. On looking
into the place Of the incarceration the keeper dis
covered Daley lying on the floor weltering in his
blood, having opened several veins Of his body du-
ring the night by means Of blade of lancet which
he convened into his cell in the lining of his hat