Litchfield enquirer., 1830-04-01

Wm. B. Lewis, to be Second Auditor of the Treas,. ry Department; and of John Campbell as Treasurer oft the United States among many others, have been confirmed by the Senate. The "editorial' nomina. nons' Noah, Hillj Kendall, &c, as one of our aged Jackson friends very forcibly expresses himself s, Chang by the gills."
 CongTsss.-The Senate have laid the resolution of the House of Representatives, for an adjournment on the l7th of May, the table until the first of Nav lntmatng that they will not De able to get through the public business so as to adjourn by that time.
 GENERAL SUMMARY.
 DaeH'"g.-The National Gazette mentions, that William Miller, Jr. young lawyer, of Philadelpha, was killed in duel at Naaman's Creek, on ,he bor. oers of Maryland, on Sunday last, by Lieut.. Charle. u. Hunter, of the U. s. Navy. It is said that Mr.. Miller died on the spot, having been shot through the lungs. The Philadelphia Journal speaks of several dues likely to grow out of the same origin. It is to be lamensd that, although reports had been in circu 'at'on 10 New York for days previously the au. thor'aes of Philadelphia the real friends of the youth concerned, could not have found means to pre- vent the commission of a deliberate murder.
 The bills of the Washington and Warren Bank were immediately discred;etl, in New York, as soon as the fact was known that injunction had been laid on the Dutchess County and Western Insurance Companies, which are believed to be in some way connected with tho Bank. The Brokers decline 10 purchase; and is impossible to say what the bils worth, or to give any iniohasion in relation to them which can be relied on.
 " SAM PATCH FoUND.-ThA body of this bold b,, unfortunate adventurcr was found on the l7h inst in the river aboutsix miles below Rochester. |, was known to be hs, by the black handkerchief about Iris waist and other marks.-A1. D Ado.
 Herman M. Hardenburgh, member of Assembly. from Sullivan County was found dead n his bed this morning, at his lodgings at GOurlays. This sudden and aftlicng dispensatiOn ofDivine Providence has caused among our citizens and lis colleagues in the Legislature, deep reflection on the uncertainty oflif and much sympathy for his sorrowing friends, He was, on the previous evening, apparently in good health, and conversed with his friends with his usual cheerfulness. He was a man highly esteemed, and was elected to the Assembly, at the last election ale most uaanimously.-U.
 strange epidemic prevails in Albany. The face swells tll 1t is shockngly deformed. In some cases the eyesght is severely affected. In others, it is att tended by severe headache.--In very many cases however, there is no pnin and though the eyes are rendered weak, they neither inAamsd nor in pain
 The New York Gazette says, it has learned, yer. hay, from Washington, that the Senate had rejected the nomination of John P. Decatur as collector at Portsmouth.
 Massachusetts Claim.-A private letter from Was,- ington of the 18th inst states that the military com. mit,e of the Senate have reported bill making an appropriation for the payment of the Massachusetts claim, to the amount of s43O, OOe.-BestOn COur.
 Militia Laso in NesO York.-The Senate yesterday, in committee of the whole, passed the bill brought in by Mir. Wheeler, in relation to the militia of this State The principal changes introduced by this law are, to reduce the non-commissoned officers u.usi. clans, and prvates; and pay all monies collected for fines, and communication money, to the commissioners ofc0mmon schools, in the town or city where the de- lnquent resdes to be by them distributed as other school monies are.-Aiboay Argvs.
 MOnumsnt to Washington.-rhe resolutions sul,. mitted n the House natives on Friday. pro vide, that the remains of General Washington, and of Mrs. Washington, be removed, in December next. to the City of Washington, and entombed in the Centre Ofthe Capitol, and that Marble Monument be erect. ed them, to be surmOuned, when it reaches the Rotunda, with Pedestrian Statute of Washington, to be executed by the abest artiits.--N. Y. Amer.
 Official information has been received at the De- partpem ofStMe, from Mr. Moorej Minister of the U- ned StaieS at Bogoa, that Bolivar has approved the C0nveftioH of 25th November aet, recognizing cer- tain claims of citizens of the U. StRtess and providing for their payment.
 The Secretary of the Treasury, (in the U. s. Tele- graph, ack nowedges the recept 0ftrO thousand dOl LGvs, transmitted te him from New York by an un- known person, ss " dae to the United Sta.es."
 The National fntell igencer says, "the Senate sat nearly seven hours on Thursday, with closed doors, in the consideration of Executive business" Extract of letter dated, Mobile, llth March, " Lat evening a fire broke out in . stable adjoining che Theatre, which destroyed the Theatre and num- beTof houses."
 L<siskatsve of NeD York.=In the House. on the 24h u among the bills reported was one for chang. ing the Rame ofthe town of CLAY, Onondago county, to that O Ewciid It that these new scholars in Euclid, intend to show that Clay Is sot Clay. The corpse of Mr. Ar,emas Kennedy was found in NepOnset river on Saturday morning last. He had been, until late at night, where cards were played, and is is supposed, pausibly, that he fell from the wharf in returning home. But ss he had, not Iong before, renounced masonry, "suspicions have bsen circulated that masOns concerned in his dea,h ~. Y. GGxette. Two seeding masons have been indicted in Genes. see cOunty for MURDER.-ULstsr SemtiAeI