Litchfield enquirer., 1829-04-16

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 Mir. Barry, the new Postmaster General, arrived at Washington on Sunday the 5lh inst; and on Monday took the oath of office and entered upon the discharge of his dutcs
 The several foreign Ministers at present at the seat ofGovcrnmcnt presented to the President on the 9th inst. by the Secretary of State.
 Mir Van Buren, accompanied by James A. Haml. ton Esq visited Mir. Adams at his residence on Mer- dian Hill, Washington, on the 4th inst. It is said Mr. Van Buren is the only prominent man of the Jackson party who has visited the late President since he went out of office. The ice Luke Erie is said to be four feet thick, circumstance which has not occurred before in @ years.
 fellow recently sent toja for twenty days for puroining newspapers from the subscribers doors in Boston.
 The venerable patriot, JOHN TAYLOR formerly It. Governor of the state York, died ut Albany on the 18th uIt aged B. The Argus, in giving some de- tails of his life, says that Gin l776 he was delegate to the Provincial Congress; in l777 conspicuous member of the committee of sNe.y-a body of fearless patriots, who at the hazard of their lives, exercised the executive powers, from the subverson of the Co. lonal Government until the adoption of first State Constitution; and he was member of the convention that framed that instrument.
 For many years prior to l8l3 he was member of the State Senate. In tlat year he was elected Lieu tenant Governor of the State, in which office he was continued, by successive elections, until Janunry, 1893, when he retiled from public lie. From Febru- "ry, 1917, until July following he administered the DOva nf Ina G,u, s..n nation of Governor Tompkins.
 In December last, he was chosen by the electoral college of this state, elceor of president and vice. president; and the vote which he gave that occa sion for Gen. Jackson, was the last official act of his IilcA It may he said ofhim-bu the remark will ap. ply {" few ofany age or couky-hat for the lOs, sixty years he has been, amos, without in,erruption in the discharge of civil trusts of the highest public import. ance."
 1Io 1924, he was also an Elec,or and voted for Mr Adams for President.
 Reported Assassination cf Boiivar.-We learn from Capt. Clark, of the brig of Gen. Paes, who arrived here in nineteen days from Curacan, that report in circulation there, which was generally credited, that Bolivar had been assassnated-that his troops, amounting to about 5000 men, had Aed-and that all communications between Valencia and the other parts of the country had been cut of.
 Our readers will no doubt remember that an attempt was made some mouths since to destroy the President of Colombia and that he Iniraculously escaped. We shall await with much anxiety the receipt of more d advccs, to ascertain the huth or fasiy of,he mor.-N r. Gas.
 The Richmond Enquirer says i've have reason to believe that Mir. Tazewe has had the offer the Embassy to London, though we have not understood whether he means to accept it.
 MARRIED,
 In this town, (Sou.h Farms,l by the Rev. Mir. RO. In Hartford, Mir James T. Hinsdalc to Miss Louisa Goodwin Dr. Edward Brace to Miss Mary Cotton l; Mr. Joseph Arnold, of East Hartford, to Miss Lucia Wadsworth.
 In Pennington, MT Cad II. Hart to Miss Eliza E. Cowles.
 In New.EIaven, Mir. Albert Wilcox to Miss Be,sey TOmlnson, of Derby; Mir Stephen D. Pardee to Miss Jane C. Stevens.
 In KillingwOrth, Dea. Gould Campbell to Miss AL In East Haven, Mr Chester Bradley to Miss Hes- ter Bradley.
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 In Guilford, Mir Abel Kimberly to Miss Lucy Bishop. In North Killngworth, Mir Abner Neueton to Miss Hannah Stevens.
 DIED, . In Farmington, in February last, Mir. Elisha Wells, o9, soldier in the revolution.
 In New.Haven, Miss Minerva Bassett, g. la Berlin, Capt Reuben Dunham, 56.-In Mid dletown, Mrs. Abigail Hamlin.-In Glastonbury, Mrs. Rachel Goodrich, 66.-In Chaplin, Mir. Oliver Ro- gers, SU:-in Wilton, George Cannon, Esq. 45.--In Strauo.1, ADyan zn.sooks' Esq. U.-In Hamden, Mir.
 In Salisbury, Mr. John Wood. s4. formerly of Chatham.-ln Vernon' Mr. Cornelius Roberts, 69