Litchfield enquirer., 1858-06-24

near them with segar is warned away by the French guards. There is French police here. to which the Italian police is subsidiary, and it is said to be much the better of the two.
 LOSING ALL-A FAMILY SCENE.
 There is something exceedingly beautiful, as we'll as instructive, in the following incident in the life of an unfortunate mtrchart:
 A few years ago merchant failed in busin. ess. He went home one evening ill great az. tarien
 "What is the matter p asked the wife. "I am ruined am beggared. I have lost my all l" he exclaimed, pressing his hand upon his forehead as if his brains were in whirl
 "Al said his wife; II am eft" "All, papa said his eldest boy here am T." " And ], too, papa" said his little gill running up and putting her arms around his neck. "I's not lost papa" repeated Eddie. "And you have your health left," said his wife" "And your two hands to work with papa" said his eldes /" and l can help you" "And your two feet, papa, to carry you about" " md your two eyes to see with, papa" said little Eddie.
 "And you have Gods promise" said the grandmother. "And good God" said lis wife. "And heaven to go to-" said his lit tie girl. And Jesus to come and fetch us ther ," said his eldest.
 "God forgive me-" said the roor merchant, bursting into tears. II have not lost my aIl What are the few thousands which I have called my all, to those more precious things which God has left me ?" and he clasped his family to his bosom, and kissed his wife and children with a thankful heart
 An, no, there are many things more precious than gold and bank stocks, valuable as these may be in their place. When the Central America was foundered at sea, bags and purs- es of gold were strewn about the deck, as worthless as the merest rubbish. Life, life l" was the prayer. To some of the wretched sur- vvors, "Water, water 1 was the prayer Bread, bread 7" it was was worth it's weight in gold, if gold could have bought it.
 The loss of property must not cloud the blessings which are left behind. No man sho should despair, for no man has lost his all until he has lost his integrity, lost the mercy of God, aud lost his hope of heaven at last
 A RAILROAD TRAIN AT SEA-A corfgspon- dent of 7He Cincimmati Gazette, writing from Ou UOd1u GlC CdIS VI buC SuiO dtiu IuiSoLSoippl Railroad, west of Vincennes, May 2, gives a description of Q somewhat novel kind of rail roadng He says:
 "On crossing the bridge of the Ohio and ] Mississippi Railroad, at Viucennes, the travel CT westward witnesses Lovcl sight in railroad ing. Before him is lake (the Wabash valley overfowed) over six miles wide, and longer than the eye can reach Across this sea the train runs on trestle work that sticks out just four inches above the top of the water. Nothing is seen on it's broad surface save these two iron rails, around which the waters eddy and whirl, aud dash mady against the slender frame, which seems to tremble under their force. All over the lake are whirlng edIies, carrying big trees and drift round and round These soon make your head swim, and you feel that the trestle-~ ork is certainly moving the bot tom seems to be undermined and is moving |: while the top is tipping over against the cur rent and you expect every mom' nt to hear the splash of the train going down into the sea But it don't go, and there is no danger, fright full as it looks.
 But now we come to place that really seems fearful We are in the middle of the lake, It is just twilight. Almost ont of sight of land-nothing but a waste of waters on every side of that long, solitary railway train ; we leave the straight line, and go curving southward like snakes track. Why? Sim ply because the flood has carried the trestle work away from it's straight course, and left it in zig-zag llne (and half upset, at that), some distance below where it originally stood. So badly upset that this trestle-work, that in some places the rail on one side was two feet lower than on the other, and it seemed as though it wanted only the weight of the train to throw it entirely down. The lower rail had, however, been taken up, and timbers placed on that side to bring it up as high, and in some cases little higher than OH the other so as to throw most of the weight on tie upper side It was also braced up and stayed as well as could be done in the present state of the food
 On this half overturned, racked and tottlish- looking trestle-work, our train crept cautiously along. A railroad train out at sea, with iron enough about it to anchor it safely it the bot tom, and creeping along on shaky tre'tle- work, that the engineer is afraid to jar for fear he may jar it down."
 It is b. lieyed that Ger. Sam Houston is about to organise an armed force invade Mexi- co. He is anxious for the government of the United States to establish protectorate over that country and has more than once brought the matter before the Senate, but it was re- jected. Upon one occasion he made the follow ing significant remarks ::
 elf the government of this nation does not intcrpose in the name of outraged humanity in Mexico, men will be found who will not shrink