Litchfield enquirer., 1830-05-13

with the murder of Major John Floyd in January last On the same day. before breakfast, while Mr. Powell was standing in the of Mr. Palmer, in Darien, pistol was fired at him by Mr. Charles Floyd, the ball of which cutthe sleeve ofhis cOai passed through mOlasses hOgshead, and lodged in partition wall:- Judge Law, on the affidavit of Powell, issued war rant for the arrest of Charles and Richard FIoyd for " an assault with intent to murder" but they could not be foand. On the subsequent day, true bill returned against the former principal, and the latter as necessary in the offence above mentioned. Powell was escorted to the cOurt-house and back to his Iodg inga, by an armed party of his friends.
 The jury on Saturday, without leaving their box. found Eilson, the mail rOb6er, GUILTY on all the counts of the indictment. Ot course his sentence must be death. We understand that he ex pressed a wish to see Mr. Reside the mail contractor, whom he promises make disclosures that will aston ish our ctz ens.-U. s. Gag. Maya.
 Mail Ro66er-WilsoR, one of the arrest ed on suspicion of having been concerned in robbng the Reading Mail in December last, has been tried in Philadelphia, before the Circuit Court and found guilty. The crime is punishable with decth. Porter alias May, who has been apprehended the supposed ciate Of Wilson, is now trial for the offence.
 s.s@aa@G l- Hartford Mirror.
 Suicides.-Mr. Normand CIapp, of Wethersfeld, cut his throat on the 3Oth ut in such manner as to
 
 had been in poor health for number of years-and had been de!irious fer the last six months.
 A convict in State Prison, ta black man) cut his throat the same day, and died Uf the Wound Tues day iast.-Hartford Times.
 It is said that murder recently perpetrated in Meredith, N. H. and pedler seeing light in tav- ern window at night and ladder resting against it, had the curiosity to mount and look in, whenNe dis covered three men in consultation, and the dead body ~c a..l L. h.. .l.. the floor. He descended, took away the ladder, a- harmed the tavern keeper, and all three secured 7A Erie Canal.-The Albany Daily Advertiser says the business of the canal uncommoniy brisk, and its e feet npon the city is very apparent. It remarks however, that the canal, in places, appears to be in a very neglected and ruinous condition.
 Breach ia the Erie Canoi.-A letter the editor of the Argus. dated Canistota, May 3, says:-" Iemaye be interesting 10 forwarders and merchants to have early information that breach in the Erie canal oc cured at 2ociock this morning, which will prevent navigation for some days. It is at Oneida creek a. quedact. am not precisely informed of the extent ofihe breach. One report says that one of the arch- es has given way; but another and think the true one, is, that the embankmeDt connected with the stone work ony has gone for about 30 40 feet to the depth of2O or 30 feet"
 The Daily Advertiser has be en informed by intel ligent gentleman from the west that forty thousand barrels -four, lying the village of Rochester, and intended for the New-York market, had, in conse- uence of the increase ofhe tolls upon the cana and before the information of their reduction recev ed, been shipped to Montreal. This is a severe com mentary upon this rash and mprudent act of the canal board. s..s
 ANew-Orleans paper. speaking of,he late fire in that city, says's such was the scarcity of the water though within 100 yards of the Mississippi, that Mr. Woof suprlied the engines the engineers, pretty Iiberaiy with beer and c;der."
 In Rhode Island every electors name must be writ ten on the bach of his This renders it easy to decide contested elections. The Virginia viua method is as good as any after all.
 A writer in the New-York Evening Journal states instance where poor, but worthy aud respectable females allowed three cents pair for making pan taioons, and six cents each for making vests. Accounts from Prospect Hil near Richmond N. C. mention the shocking dea,l,.of the Rev. Mir. Owen. who has oficiated; in the church of that place for more than thirty years. He was in a state ofnoxi- cation when he met his fate, having broken his neck iran unsuccessful attempt to climb fence.
 ASeh"so"o ASss6a"t ot"sC0 ""e s"S which is going the rounds' in the newspapers that "Ex-President Madison, is among the petitioners for stopping Sunday Mails, is mistake"
 Coanecticnt Temperance Record.-The Secretary of the State Soc. reports the present number of per- sons pledged to entire abstinence in the whole State 18,745.
 The Darien (Geo.) Phenix thus facetously alludes to the decease of that paper :DlEp, to-day, after existence of quite Is months, the Darien Phenir. Consumption inherited from its ancestor the Darien Ga=ete may perhaps be assigned one of the remote causes of its dea,h but the proxima,e agent doubtedly starvaton for, with the appetite of the cormoran it had scarcely pabaI"m enough to subsst a swallow. Yet neither hunger nor discase could subdue its complaint and gave up the ghost laughing at the pale messenger of destruction. By borrowing from Pope, an epitaph is appended:
 How cursed or lauded once avails thee not
 By whom conducted or by whom begot: heap of pi s all remains of thee
 'Tisall thou art, and all thou e'er wilt be.
 Maj. Asa May, of Woods,ock, in this State, hung himself on the 18th ut.
 The litile steamboat, of 90 tons, which last year ed by fire. ff e<r
 One of the Thomsouian steam Doctors, has been indicted in Philadelphia for misdemeanor, in stcain- ing a child to death. He was colOved physician.
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