The Litchfield County post., 1828-06-19

 of those laws, were excluded from office !: and. indeed, no person could enter upon the duties of an office, without having previously partaken of the Sacrament, according to the rites of the Established Church. This Test was one of the most unfortunate that could have been adopted, as it was calculated to exclude every man who could not conscien- tiOusly comply with it, and to admit those whose cOnsciences were less scrupulOus, and more pliable.
 We should not be surprised to find that this step on the part of Government should lead to the eventual removal of the Catholic disa biIities. The questions are not precisely the same; but on the ground of expediency one may naturally follow the other.
 N. Y. D. Ado.
 4 ShOwer of Herrings.-The Inverness Courier, received by the Florida. states that Maj. M'Kenzie, gentleman of FoddingtOn, in Strathpeffer, while traversing field on his farm, lately discovered portion of ground covered with fresh herrings. The fish, it is supposed, had been transported thither by water-spOut-a phenomenon that is common at that place.
 Extract of c letter to the editor cf the Boston
 Statesmen.
 HAVANA, May 19, 1923.
 At this time an epidemic is raging to wonderful extent. The Spaniards call it the Dengue-'tis attended with violent pain in the head and limbs. At present it is not con- sidered very fatal, but the physicians are of opinion that it will assume a more malignant type when the rainy season commences. You can hardly form an idea of it's preyalence-I may say at moderate estimation, that one half of the population of this city are now af- licted by this disorder. Many of the stores and places of business, where twenty or thirty persons are usually employed. are now clos ed, every one being confined by sickness Of yellow fever, there are not many cases at present."
 The following extract of letter, received at Buenos Ayres, will be read with interest, as it relates to an affair in which the pride of our navy is concerned: &
 "The only novelty which at present occu pies the town talk here, (Montevideo,) is d skirmish in black and white between GuedeZ, (the Brazilian Admirably and the American Commodore, Riddle, with regard to the A. merican ship James Birkhead, which arrived here from Rio Janeiro on the 25th ut. and anchored in the Outer Roads, under the pro- tecton of the Macedonian's guns. The Bra ziIian admiral sent his boat to desire the Capt. [Curtis1 to go on board the Admiral's ship with his papers, as he might probably pur- chase the vessel for the service of his Imperi- gl Majesty,- she is a fine corvette built ship] instead of which Guedez detained the papers, sent to the President Garcia insisting that the ship should come into the harbor, and sent on shore for pilot & guard of soldiers to take care of her in the ipterim. The A. merican Commodore ordered 50 men from the s!oop of war, Boston, to go on board the Birkhead, and bring her along side the Mace donian, which was handsomely effected, by the Boston sailing between that ship and the Brazilian squadron, consisting of the frigates Princess Imperial Admiral's shp] Emper- atrez, and Nitcheroy. The Brazilians loosed their sails, and we had great expectations to have seen some burning, of gunpowder be- tween the South and North American squad rons; we were however disappointed.
 Commodore Riddle has recovered the pa pers of the ship, and she is now discharging her cargo.
 The American Sloop of war Plymouth has o'1i'CN ot VAOhtCNiNCOS HUH tAC OuilCu States and Rio Janeiro, to relieve Tit is said the sloop ofwar Boston. The frigate Mace donian remained at Montevidco.
 On the 25th of April, in the French Cham her of Deputies, it was stated by a member, that in one prison alone in Paris, the victims ofusury were two hundred and fifty in num- Der, including many artists, officers, and It. erary men.
 Ihe Field of Honom.-Two gallant sons ot the Emerald Isle, who have taken up their abode on the north side of the St. Lawrence lately came over to the south side, in the neighborhond of Ogdensburgh. to settlca small matter between them in an honorable way mot by cracking each others knowledge boxes with their little bit sprigs of shillalah, hut to crack pistols at each other. The St. Lawrence Gazette intimates that the difficult ty originated in the explosion Of some tall words over jug of blue ruin." The parties came upon the ground. It was cool morn. ing. Their knees shook with the cold, and :heir hands trembIed. Indeed the grey mist of the morning had nigh well thrown both in- to an ague. However. they exchanged two shots, without effect, and might have procee- ded farther, had it not been for bright thought of one of the principals, while the seconds were charging the bull dogs for an- other trial 1G Och PheliIO 9 Said Patrick