Litchfield enquirer., 1830-06-17

t 0dUtttg felligent gentlemen of both houses of Con- gress, with whom we have conversed during their stay in this city, that the signs of tho times at Washington poFtend any thing but peace and tranquility to our present ruling nOwers. We are credibly informed that the dissatisfaction with the present Administra- tion among the Western members was loud and viUlent.---N. Y. PG.. sEs The House of Representatives very prop . erIy restored on Saturday evening the Oiiice of DraughtsmGn, and thus destroyed the only memorial of Retrenchment which the present adninistratiofS has furnished. And this in 1 stance like the whole system of Jackson re-
 trenchment, was fallacious. The Otice IS me- l cessary; the salary is $500. and the debate on abOlishing it is estimated to have cost the
 nation about $1O, ,0OO-N0t. Jour. ] The Dunstable sStrdps.-A correspondent
 of the Boston Daily Advertiser states that
 Foxboro' and not ROxboFO' is entitled to thes credit of making the Dunstables." They
 are of pattern first introduced in London.
 but not rendered fashionable until they had 1 passed the ordeal of Paris, :" le centre du bon
 gout." These Diamond plats were first in-
 troduced at New York by two English ladies, and soon after patterns were sent from Fox
 b0ro'. These, at cost of $2, sold for 15.-
 They now pay small profit of 100 per centsa Foxhoro' has made straw bonnets an article
 of trade for 80 years. It is estimated that Athere are sent annually to the south from 30 Ito ,OOO dollars worth of b0nnets, besides ] the amOunt sent to Boston and other places.
 The article is subject to great fiuctuation in
 price, and whenever a new fashion is success
 fully introduced, the girls apply themselves night and day to making bennets. and reap a | xA .l1 &l..Hh
 chants.
 ' On Tuesday evening an aged man of ven- erable appearance, a citizen of Salem, Mass.
 procured the assistance' of the Police author
 ities, to enable him to drag his daughter. the Victim of Seduction. from her infamous haunts,
 with view of endeavOring to restrain her in
 her career vice. She was arrested by one
 of the officers and confronted with the stern, though calm, gaze of her agonized parent
 her bIighted counte nance bespoke her ruin, whilst her eyes flashing with an unholy fire,
 showed that the despoiler's lures had too } deeply poisoned her mind to give hopes of an ) easy cure. Margaret -, the unfortunate girl. was rather above. the middle female ' height, and probably not, more than 18 years of age, and so young, sunk to the most iDfa- nous depths of disgrace. !" Home, ha! what care for home or friends do you think '' : said she, '.if you force me 10 go home, PIT 3 stay there no. my person is my own, not : that old man's." And can this be the same , girl. a being possessed of the same mental 7 faculties which but short time since appear
 cd to guide that person when the ornament of { her fathers house, the pride of his hopes !--~ and now, what q spectacle to that father! N. Y. CoT. l. l D:of vrL... ,.o. q. A:.tc.l,os,rs ;,, prnvs- ,; denes on Wcdnssday higni, growsss o,sslSa r the advertisement of mOuntebank, who ad-
 yertised that he would show the way to mako
 Free Masons. He had obtained no license from the Council for his exhibition. Several ' hundred persons collected opposite to the Washington Hall, where the show was to be een,with no apparent object, ,and little noise. Crackers were however fired of, and some of the Town Council and the Sheriff thought : 1t proper to disperse the assemhlege, in do- ine which man was carried t0 the watch house. This led to a tumult and rescus.-- The door of the watch house was forced, and the rioters did not disPerse until one o'clock
 Tn the morning. Several indictments will
 probably grow out ofthe affair. Ire show man has been prosecuted for exhibiting with out license. His name is Allen.
 Mir. Farewell, Senator from Virginia leis Washing
 o" Veaot0 tue cose or tue eesson, ana It tn sd went
 home in disgust and to have declared that if he were
 member of the House of Representatives, lie would
 institute an inquiry into the of removals by he
 President, and if he found political considerations at
 Ae bottom, he would prefer articles of imposetnen, Caserpiiars--A gardener at Glasgow, having ob-
 served that piece of woollen, which, blown by ahe
 wind, had accidentally lodged upon goosebersy bush,
 was soon covered with caterpars hesook the hin.o
 putting pieces of stuff upon other plants nfesied with
 these insects; the caerpilla took refuge upon them
 daring the night, and in this easy way the bushes
 were s"on cleared ofrthem.S Siliiman's Joar of Set 1 s"one of the parishioners of a minister who had
 lately been sessled, while on visit to Bos,oa, was
 asked by friend how he liked his new minisier 1-
 "Very well," he replied, |" and believe he gives
 universal satisfaction. He is of the most liberal
 discreet men ever knewfor tn the pulpit he nei.h-
 CT interfsres with politics nor reigioa!"
 The Philadelphia Gazette informs, that the Masshal
 has received from the President the warrant for sls
 execution of Porter and Wilson, the maI robbers.
 The second of July is the day appointed for their sx- ecution. Ef
 Found upon the margino of Connecticut aser, in the
 town of Weihersfeld, the body of Male Infant Child. supposed to be three weeks old The body