Litchfield enquirer., 1829-02-26

ReFSerer0nee--AFe 0nEeySe mat NoTnelIus t1lsgins has got bis bill through the Assembly for the payment of a bOekhoase, destroyed during the last war. See the benct, of peESeveraacsl Every year since the peace, COrne;ius has F1litioned the Legislature for the claims, and it often came within few votes of passing It has cost more in debate than would build forty block houses and M them with blockheads. Mr. Higgins will now descend to future ages celebrated as Amey Darbin's horse, waich Mr. Randolph im- mortalized.-Noah.
 9'he North Poie,-A widow in Alloa has son who, last season, commanded ship engaged in the whale fishery. His ship was lost and he wrote home to his mother that afer is disaster he had fortunate y found out and was coming home (Scotice) with, tho North Pole, ship now in Leith harbo,. The old woman, reading the news, was in raIlures,and exclaimed, ,-''Our Johns . made man at last. He has found inc North Pole, and is bringing it amc wi him. A braw reward, nae doubt, hell ha' fra the govcrnment.--E Eng. PGpeE.
 The report of the death of Gen. Jackson is said to nave arisen from mis-reading. A person writing that 'the General leave on tlIe 2Oh of January,bu did on the l9,h,' the i,ac word was blunde, ,ingIy read died.
 This is as bad as the mistake respecting convacs- cent gentleman who took asj.Mrney to the South.-- After he had staried, te daily inquirers re- speeding his health, being .Si. the domes,ics that the poor invalid was goass .Gadee repOT1ed tha, he had departed to the other s;rorld.-PaH. 4 neat one.-The Palladium, in giving an account from auo.her paper of the bad custom of suffering dogs to enter houses of worship, observes: ''This evil docs not exist in Boston. The dogs instead of If th0sc who have no time to attend meeting."
 A Branch of inc Bank of the United States, has been established at St. Louis, of which John O'Fal- lon is the first President. r A village newspaper, in Maine,. complains that the young ladies of the place dance with both Jackson and Adams incn.
 Counterfeit five dollar bills, 1.-the TIarord, Conn. Bank, in circulation. They are badly executed, and dated rstof January s2s payable to G. Cowles. Letter E. No l27l. Horace Burr, Cashier; Nathan icl Ferry, President. | A hog weighing 544 pounds when dressed, was re- gently sold at Providence for $34. 1t was raised a, Cranston, by Mir. D. Randall. The hog was of the short legged small boned breed, and doubtless says the American, did not cost one fourth in his keeping, that one of your weaze! nosed, flap cared fellows would do, with afralnc Ike 74.---Noah.
 Presbyterians-The Presbyterian Church in the United States orsanizedby the establishment o the Presbytery of ofPhadephi;s in 7O4, or l24 years ago. In l7l6, tbere were Synod and Presbyte- rics. In 1903, there were,7 Synods and g Presbyt cries. In 1913, ten years ago. there were Il Synods and 5 Preshyteries. In 1898, l6synods and sOPres bytcries. By the last annual reports there were l2S .l-s..- T Presbyterian Preacherso the Gospel. Also, 242 can ddates in various stages ofpreparaton for the sacree ofice., sy ,..I:--,-=r...s 4sss.--s.
 Six Manufacturing CoInPanics were incorporated by the Norlh iCaroima Legislature, at the late ses sion viz: one in Fayetteville; one in Rockingham Richmond County; one in Randolph county; ono ir Edgecomb county; one In Beaufort county; and ono for the Manufacture of Iron in Chatham County.
 On the 18th ult. Joseph Gales, Senior, editor of paper in Raleigh ". c. was reelected Mayor oftha city, and Joseph Gales, Junior, son of the above na- med gentleman, and editor of the National Intelligent cer, has been reelected Mayor of the city of Wash l.ington. .@
 | A correspondent of the Little Falls People. Friend, says, that thirty couple attended ball in thu town of Mannheim, Herkimer county, on the lst Q JhuuAFys Ao<oS anu OI tuIS uumOer lV were narrie within the year-each of the ten gentlemen havin been united to the ladies they severaly gallanted the occasion.
 Messrs. Johnson and M'Quesion, of Rocks VilIag, HaverhiI, Mass. recently killed hog l5 months oIt which weighed 565 pounds.
 In January last, two young of Franklin, India
 nearly related quarreed at the house of an uncle while no but his wife was present, and stabbe each other desperately that the lie of de spaired of and the other in state little less danger ons. They are said to have been drunk.
 A member of southern legislature spoke hour on the Tariff. "Pooh!" says Kentucky editor five have members that speak speech of three day long, and from Tartary to the Rocky Mountains il breadth" ... ,.s.t taassr .r...
 It is stated that Gen. Jackson has large and beau tifnl farm, and cntyates annually upwards of hun dred acres of cotton, and raises about 5000 bushels grain. "A a29. ,.. .4- I -=E=ss.issl s, .,. --.t l s4 MARRIED, ,sf1ss+ RE In MiddIetown, MT. Asa Williams to Miss Mary Savage. f'ssa
 In New-IIaven, Mir. Charles Darlington to Mis-. Mary Anne Bartlett. at In Woodbridge, Doct Lucion Spencer of Water bury, to Miss Harriet E. Thomas; Mr Jared French to Miss Caroline Tollcs. h
 In New-York, Mir. Enoch c. Stanton to Miss Luc, Jane Shepard, both of Hartford. .
 DIED.
 In this village, on Sunday last. Peter Hamlin, colored man, aged 94. -.