Litchfield enquirer., 1829-03-19


 Washington correspondents state, that Gen. Scott has not left Washington, nor has he placed his resignation in the hands ofa friend, as heretofore stated.--N. Y.P.
 In the Senate of the U. States, Mr. Mckinley has presented protest from the Legislature of Alabama against the Tariff.
 Flies.-Po Poulson's Advertiser contains communication which states, that some flies which had found their way into a bottle of spirits of wine, and apparently drank them selves to death, were taken put in lifeless state.. and buried amidst heap of warm wood ashes. lin few minutes they were seen starting from the ashes, shaking off the dust from their wings, and flying about as brisk as ever
 The mail stage between New-York and Albany was lately overturned and precipita- ted down a precipice, rolling over and over several times. Gov. Van Ness of Vermont was in the stage at the time; but so much had he become accustomed to turning somer-- sets, that he received no injury .---Am. Ado.
 Several individuals, in different parts of the country. have been claiming the credit of being the Jfrst to propose Geueral Jackson as candidate for the Presidency. This has in. duced the editor of the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette to make the following statement:
 "As early as the year 1916, the writer of this article was in company with several gem tlemen from Nashville and its vicinity. then in this city purchasing merchandise. The conversation frequently turned upon the char acter and services Of General Jackson. Afler some very free remarks one day at the din. ner table, upon some acts that had been im- puted to the General, one of the covnpanys-- we believe he had been a member of Gen. Jackson's military family in New Orleans, observed. .-" Gentlemen, you mistake the character and qualifications of the General: nor is it probable that you win ever under stand them, until he is e President of the United States.' ThePhiladelphians expressed much astonshment at the idea so seriously advanced, but the gentleman insisted upon it. .So true," said he, as there is a sun in the heaven so true will Gen. Jackson be President of the United States"
 7Ke bird 0f Jove.--!Two large black Ea- gles, driven from their eyre probably by the late severe weather, were killed last week near Morris Cove, on the East Haven shore of our harbour, by Capt. Abijah ParCee.- They were male and female. The former measured eight feet two inches from the ex- tremity of one wing to that of the other, three feet two inches from head to tail, and weighed nearly IS pounds. The other. was somewhat smaller. Capt. P. attempted to take the male alive, having brought him down with broken wing. but he showed fight. and attacked his assailant with so much vigor that he was obliged to dispatch him to secure the conquest. They have been exhibited in town, and were two powerful and noble birds.
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 Some idea of the immense extent of the Mauch Chunk Coal Mines may be formed from the following report of the Committee appointed by the Legislature of N. York to view the Morris Canal and inclined planes :-- " On Thursday night, 4th December, the Committee lodged at Bethlehem. On Friday they proceeded to Mauch Chunk. On Satur- day, 9th Dec. they went on the inclined plane to the coal field of the Lehigh Company. The day was spent in examining the extent of the coal, and manner of transporting it to the shute or landing upon the Lehigh. The whole top of the mountain. except few feet upon the surface of the earth, isa coal bed. ascertained to be many miles in ex- tent, and in depth has been explored more than forty feet, the coal still of good quail ty, and most probably extends to the base of the mountain, which is nine hundrrd feet high and may in a manner be considered as inex- haustible." -<ras..t
 There was ball at Providence on the eye- hing of Friday last, when the great snow storm commenced, and as the music and dancing continued till late hour on the suc- ceeding morning. when the drifts were heapeGi up mountain high. the gentlemen were obli- ged to perform that duty which could not be done by horses and carriages. The ladies were mounted on the backs of their gallants. and a picture was described not unlike that described in one of the dreams of Addison's Spectator, where the females came out Ofa besicged city. lugging upon their shoulders they were most anxious to preserve rom ruin. The lovers, it is said. were often obliged to put down their precious little bur lens in the snow banks. that they might .take hem up better"
 The State of Rhode Island now contains S9 cotton factories, and 90 w0OalsO factories NhO foOuna af Na rvvsNk and CsnfekAaA na~A