Litchfield enquirer., 1830-08-26

Newspaper Thiec-one Willard Curtis, hairdress. has been convicted in tho Police Cour, of stealing newspaper, the Boston Courier, and sentenced to ten days imprisonment and costs of Court.
 AmerScG" Sak.-A gentleman from Mansfield, C, informs us, (says the NewEngland Farmer) that is computed that al least four tons of raw silk have been raised in Connecticut this season and that the silk raised In Mansfield and the adjoining towns this year. has amounted to 2i,000-a of which has found a ready sale.
 As0eT0I0y'-A man, very plainly attircd, and of n very unpre'endIng address called few days since on the Secretary of the Colonization Society, and alier making lew pertinent inquiries respecting the pros- poets of the Society, presented the Secretary with Hundred dollar bil On being asked to whom the Society were indebted for the liberal donation, he re- piled frie"d to the of African Colonization, who lives in New-Orleans, aud who for many years has had opportunity Ofw,nessng the evils of slave. ry.-POuiso,.'s Ado.
 Rufus K. Anderson, charged with the murder o Thomas P. Taul, has recently been tried before the Circuit Court a, Winchester, and acquitted.
 correspondent of the Virginia Farmer, and of the National Intelligencer, nominaies the Hon. WSAiGm D"ayton, of Sou.h-C Carolina, as candidate for Vice President of the United States, aud calls upon Inc friends of Mr. Clay to give him their cordial support.
 Land ;n Maine.-Ahout ,O00 acres of land, it Oxford County, Me. were sold in Portland lTth ins, at eight cents per acre.
 We learn that Branch of the U. s. Bank is to he established at Utica. The Directors have already been appointed ..r..
 well dressed girl, 15 o, l6 years of age, has been committed to prison in New-York charged with hav- ing stolen several pairs of earrings from the ears of young children. Itis believed that she has committed extensive thelts in that way.
 The census of Baltimore is just completed. The in ten years 17,781, nearly thirty per cent. Annapolis has population of 2,6l8. Increase in ten years, 358.
 table, Showing the amount of stamp duty paid by each of the London newspapers for 1829 is contained in the London Morning Herald of the Both of June,
 from which it appears that the duty paid for samps by the Times upwards of 54,000 pounds, and for the Morning Herald and English Chronicle upwards of B, ,OO0.
 The Samese twins were exhibiting in Liverpool.
 Charge of Felony oguinst e Cierk.--A young man a clerk in store tn Broadway, committed {, Bridewell on Thursday, by Justice Lownda, upon charge of purloning money and goods from his em poyer. number of circumstances led the employ CT to wonder that his business was not more profta ble, and while he was communicating the fact to som' Of his friends, was at once suggested, that hi clerk made extraordinarily fashionable display hmselfin the streets and elsewhere, he could upon his salary honestly supply all the demands upon his purse created by such extravugance One ofthe gen.
 emen proposed test their suspcinsby goiug to the store and making small purchase, and then that the store keeper should call in and see what disposition was made of the money. A three dollar bill was handed him by the store keeper, with which he pro- ceeded to the store bought goods to that amount and returned. The store keeper then called, and looked in the drawer, where he found only six shings: and to his Rterrogatory whether any thing had been so the clerk said ihnt was all At this lime ;he other gentleman came in, and afier conversation the cerk charged with the felony, which he atlengih confessed finding the proof distinct and positive to admit of n doubt The Revised Statutes make the case felony.-N Y. Jour. Com
 A gentleman arrived in New.York on Saturday who left New Orleans on the 2lst ut. and came by land on the mail route through Mobile. He informs thatbo those places were remarkably heal,h:. The corn crops in part of Alabama, on the whole route through Georga, and partof South Carolina. were entirely ruined by the drought, and the farmers wer, engaged in clearing the fields of the dry stalks. Th cotton crops the uplands, had sustained injury, bu not so extensive IS the corn.
 A New-York paper says, William NV. w"s a mid shipman during the revolutionary struggle, and is ct. remembered by some of our old citizens, lroIit some boy, who was frequently seen skating upon ,' Collect during that period.