Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

Al
 folIowine from the Detroit Free Press, goes a
 little ahead of the Carstang case, just concluded st st Touis: "A woman made her appearance st the office of the Police Justice, day or two e;nce for the purpose of entering complaint against man for breach of promise. She said she had devoted herself to him long time, un- der promise of marriage, and all she ever got from him was six little pigs, which, in momen- tarv burst of generosity, he presented her with. She nursed and fed the diminutive porkers until they attained goodly size and gave promise of great porcfne dimensions, when, in character istic fit of meaness, he drove the pigs away and deserted her forever. The loss of the bios and the abandonment was double blow, which led her to seek revenge"
 AN ENGLISH VIEW OF THE IMPENDING CR1- SIS. - From British country paper )-Ihe boasted republic, so much vaunted by vain glori- ons Yankees, seems on the brink of a precpce from which retreat will be disgrace and advance destruction. The. very wisest of American statesmen-Bonner, the Smith Brothers, Aaron Burr and others-are wrangling in the House of Parliament Tn the Columbia District over lit tie volume called the Impending Crisis" writ ten by an Octaroon, named Ieifer, in which the author proves that unless the states south of the state of New Orleans agree to abolish slave ". the North will supply them with no more shoe pegs, and utter financial ruin Will be the Consequence. The members of Parliament who quarrel over this singular book betray all the American characteristics in their savage abuse of each other, and sometimes even come to blows. The Hon. Charles Sumner, one of their number was recently fired upon by man named Hooks and just before the Asia sailed, it was reported that member named Asking was de- tected in the act of throwing away heavy rife, which he had previously managed to carry in pocket made expressly for it. Though we have no particular faith in what the Americans call their republican institutions, we are sorry to see our cousins working their own ruin with the edge-sword of political incompatibity. As born Englishmen. we are bound to sympa- thize with the so-caed abolitionsts' of the northern states of Georgia. Nashville, Harpers Virginia, &c., in their efforts to free the negroes from bondage. Some of the greatest men now living in America are blacks the fimJu Jus John Brown negro therefore the governor of Harpers Virginia hung him. Horace Greedy, the famous journalist, is negro ;and their great sensation preacher Henry Wood Beaker, is said to be quadroon. Yet despite such ev- dence of the Africans natural equality with the whites in intellect as well as in every thing else the southern members of Parliament led on by Mr. Sippi, are threatening to dissolve the American Union, if they are not allowed to
 
 WHEN DRINK MAY BE TAKEN MEpu1x- ALLY.-Aftcr goose, or duck, or pork, or Irish Dstew, or any delicacy of the season into which onions may have seasonally entered invariably aft4f salmon; when there is any washing being done at home; when painters are in the house when a person feels faint, and doe snt know what is the matter with him when a friend turns up after an absence of several years, or when you are parting with friend whom you do not expect to see for several years when a person has the toothache when a person has lost at cards. or when person has come into a large property; when q person has met with misfortune; or made tremendous harg in; wh, a person has quarrelled when rec n ilation has taken place; when pe'son is on a sea voyage, or goes out between the its of q fl te act tragedy or ascending in d balloon or after coming off the jury of coronef's inquest or when you are sitting up for your wfA; or when frienl drops in to sm Ike cigar and, in fact upon al! suitable occasions of <a e nr me- riment wh n person feels rathe, low, CT .e Is in very high spirits.
 ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.-The following incl dent in the life of the grandfather of the late Governor Caleb Strong of Massachusetts, is quite romantic: :. He had paid some attention to Mary (daughter of Captain john) sheldon, of Deerficid, Mass, and there was love, but 10 cn- gagement, between them. On the fatal 29th of February, 104, she was taken prisoner by tae French and Indians and carried to Canada, where she remained two or three years It is stated that the first question she asked of those who came to redeem her was whether Jonathan Strong Was married. He was mauied-her re- turn being considered very uncertain. After her return she also married But in 175l her hus- .ba ld and Mir. Strong's wife both died and these lao, ,,,h II, he' 76th--renewed their attachment, after lapse of fifty eight years, and were married in l762-" Sylvester Judd Esq, of Northampton, says that third of a century ago people were living in Northampton who had seen the vener able couple ride through the streets of that town she on billion behind her husband.
 TIE LENNON SLAVE CAsE.-The decision of the New York court of appeals in the Lennon slave case, to the effect that slaves taken into New York by the act of their owners are made free thereby, was concurred in by five of the judges, to wit Denio, Davis, Wright Bacon and Welles, and diss Anted from by Judges Con- stock, Selden and Clark. The decision is one of principle merely, individual rights or interests being involved, inasmuch as Mir. Lennon was settled with years ago. being more than amply repaid the value of hislost chattels by subscrip- tion taken up in New York The state of Nir- glnia however, insisted on continuing the litiga- ton, in order to establish that her citizens may take and hold their slaves where they please. Thus far she has been unsuccessful, three adverse decisions having been given in succession. She now threatens to carry it to the Supreme Court of the United States. whose we'll known nred Scott proclivites encourage the hope of differ- ent result.
 At the morning prayer-meeting in the Old South Chapel, in Boston, on Wednesday morn- ing last, gentleman made a statement of a sad case of gambling and suicide which occurred on board the steamer Empire State the night be- fore. A party of men who appeared to be pro- fessionaa gamblers were playing cards in the cabin and UT ing the bystanders to bet upon the cards. They induced one gentleman, who had been apparently interested in the game. to put down $40, and by one turn of the cards it was swept into the gamblers pocket. The loser ap- peared to be much agitated, and was seen soon after to go out on the deck, and in few mo- ments afterward man who was supposed to be him, jumped overheard and was lost His name was not known. It is supposed that the cha grin and modification which filled his mind when he came to reflect how foolishly he had lost his money, led him to commit the act. The occurrence should warn all honest men not to put themselves in the power of the sharners
 who infest the lines of public travel.