Litchfield enquirer., 1831-10-13

V Orleans, Sunday the Huh inst. on board of the steamboat KeHtGckiaR. It appears that nearly GOO dollars, kept on board for the bOats Heterogeneous and packet said contain S 900 dollars destined for the Bank of the State of Mississippi at Na,chex were stolen. IR the latter there were Ih,ry notes of 1 the United States Branch Bank at New Orleans. for one thousand dollars each, and seven thousand dol. lars of the Bank of the State of Mississippi. The agents for the eharterers of the Kenuckian offered reward OfOne thousand dollars for the recovery of inc money and arrest of the thief five hundred dollars for the former. subsequent paper states that the money was afterwards foUOd, concealed behind the b"rying ground. The clerk of the boat had ack now edged hmseIfto be the principal author of the thei, though it would seemfhat he had accompIices whose names he was unwilling to divulge.
 September 3O.-High Constable Hays and Benin. mi" Brown, fProvidence succeeded last nigh, in ar resting three black men charged with being n the late riots and murder in Providence On their examination they admitted being Providepee a, the time of the aray, and that they also in the house when the guns fired, by which sailor lost his life. They were accordingly handed over to MT. brow"' who conveyed them 10 Providence, in the steam boat Their names are, John Gardner, William ""io"" ""' ANtctar0 JOnneOns-N. Y. Gd$.
 letter received in Norfolk, Va. from highly re- speciabIe source at Newhern, N c. gives the assur- a"ce that the late alarm in that quarter has entirely s"hsIded-that much oft without any just founda- uOn-and that the efficient measures adopted for the preservation of order and the public security have spred general confidence.
 Tine National In,elligencer mentions, that kind of Convention is holden at the present time ,n Washing ton, by the mail contractors.
 Counterfeit bills of the Phoenix Bank, Hartford Conn. of the denomination of 10 dollars, are in cir culaton, letter A. dated February, 1893, signed c. Sigourney President; G. Beach Cashier payable to $. Patch. The signatures we'll executed, figures clumsy and paper bad. The genuine bills have an oily, smooth appearance; the courterfeits have a rough paper and are ofa very yeowisL cast.
 City Bank Robdery.-We are crediby informed that compromise has been made by the City Bank with Parkinson, by virtue of which he was relieved from the custody of the Police last evening The terms ofthe arrangement understood to have been that the prosecution should be abandoned, and the of $30OO, together with his stock in trade left in his possession condition ofhs restoring all the s,ol property in his hands, and making full and free disclosure ofthe mode and manner in which the rob-
 
 from the criminal process, he taken into the cus- tody of the Sheriff, at the suit of s. & M. AIlen in the $l0 ,0OO and being unable to procure bond was committed to the debtors prison. The object of the Messrs. Aliens undoubtedly is, to compel him to make restitution to them out of the bonus given the Bank, and s other property, for the undiscovered mainder of their money.-N. Y. paper.
 The trial of Mir. Stephen R. Miller, of New. Ca naan, for the murder of his own children, took place last week a. Danbury, beore the Superior Court now in session. There doubt but that the prisoner was insane at the time he killed his children, on the 18th uI.; and the same delusion which prompted him oths dreadful deed, continues. It is one of the most striking of nsonomania the prisoner being per- fsc,ly rational on all subjects but The District Attorney stated that there doubt of the prison ers' insanity, and therefore he only indicted him for manslaugh,er, that the case migh. come before the Court, and the prisoner, if necessary, be con fined by order oI the court. He was acquitted, and delivered up to his friends their giving bonds for his safe keepng.-BridgepoT Farmer.