Litchfield enquirer., 1831-06-16
THE ENQUIRER.
LITCHFIELD, JUNE 16, 1881.
Ur The Supreme Court o [ Errors and Appeals will commence its session iD this village next Tuesday.

I The Supreme Court o Errors and Appeals vii commence its session iD this village next Tuesday.
 SseGm BO0ts.-AnOiher dreadful accident has hap peDed on the Hudson River by the explosion of the General Jackson steam boat. Like most other steaH boat accdenis this appears to have arisen from th' fault of letting off some O the when coming
 to at the wharf; but certificates, in many other ses will doubtless be got up to prove that there no carelessRess or memanagemeDt on board, when the fact is there probably much of both. The fol- towing particulars are from the N. Y. Observer:
 STEAMBOAT ExPLos1oN-M0ny lives lost !-On Tuesday afternoon the steamboat General Jackson, Capt. Vanderbilt, that has piled daily between this ci- " aod Peekski, was desiroyed on her passage down, by the bursting ofher boiler. The accident occurred about o'clock, while she lying near Grassy Point Dock, new landing in Haverstraw Bay, about two miles below Stony Point Light house, and thirty shore al the time, assisting in the landing Of passen gers and merchandise. Such the force of the explosion that the boiler blown entirely from it's place, and fell into the river between the boat and the Gock; great part of the forward deck was demol- shed-the bows blown out, and in about twenty mi-
 utes the boat sank, the stern only being visible above the surface of the water. When the accident hap pened, the steamboat Albany, Capt. Jenkins, on her passage dOwR, was only few mules distant from the scene of the terrible catastrophe aud in half hour thereafter Capt. Jenkins enough to send his
 
 The number of persons on board at the time of the explosion was between 40 and 50. Of these it is Ssrtained that are de"d viz Joh" Van'ine of New iis city Mss Mary EiieS Dow, aged sbo", 10 years, of this ely Mr. Mitchell or Marshall of PeekskI: and three coored men, Oliver Mott, freman, Simeon, sieckhaMd, and Smith the cook. It is said that an el- derIy gentleman and his were in the cabin at the time of tle explosion and supposed to have gone down with the 3oat. Eight ten others are badly sca@'led, oG whom fix or seven are not expected to l.ss. eGn lot, who still alive Wednesday evening, and John Glass of Haverstraw, bar-keeper. MT. E. e. Rathbone, respectable merchant of this city of the firm of Jagger and Rathbone, shockingly man gled, and suffered the amputa,ion of his leg We'd nesday, but IS expected to recover. The number of lives lost will probably be from l2 to Is.
 The explosion seems 10 have been the result of un pardonaLIe negligence. I, is said that the steam not lel of while at the landing The explosion was violent that the chimney thrown consider able distance and fell the shore wish its bottom u wards.
 0P Gen. Dennis Kimberly was lust week elected Mayor of New-Haven by a majority of 6l votes over Judge Bristol. The Register attributes his election to which was successfully played upon the cleo tors. We can hardly believe it, as neighbor Barber is rarely caught Mapping.
 Mir. John O. Rockwell, editor of the Providence Patriot, and young poet of some fame, died at Pro- violence on the 7lh inst. aged only 24.
 U Meetings are holding or have been held in Bal timore, Philadelphia, New-York, Boston, and many other piaces for the relief of the sufferers by the late dreadful conHagralion a, Fayetteville, (N. C) Com n,i,ees are appointed to make collections and receive d"nations-and the prospect is that amount will be immediately collected su6icent nt least io relieve their immediate necessities. Two thousand people in that thriving but i-Iated place at thrown upon the community fer support, mauy Of whom but few hours previous to the fire in afuen, circum- stances. They present appeal the liberai'y cf the community which should not pass unregardcd.
 "7 7Ne Bouquet; F2oaoers of Po'ite Literature; de- voted to original and selected Tales, Legends, Es- says. American Biography, General Miscellany, PO- etry and Music" This is the title, and explanatory ofthe object. of a semi-monhy publication jnst com ncnced in Har,fnrd. The first number we have re- ceived-i, is handsomely executed, and the matter soerahiy well arranged. The next number will not appear befise the 2J of July, after which the work will appear regularly every fortnight.
 United Stales Telegraph. This notorious paper, s,ill under the management of Duff Green, is now parsaing course which will tend throw light upon the i"trgues aud seEshness of the late Cabinet than any of the opposition could do. Ha- wing been in the secrets of that cabnet-havng al- ways espouscd the cause of General Jackson and his adsninis,ra,ion-been its mouihpiece and organ-and having been the recipient of s favor and the sharer of it's bountyits disclosures will carry conviction 10 people upon whom the opposition press would have very little weight. It speaks from what il knoos, and not from what it coajecIures. It shows clearly in what manner the old General has been wisled, and how he has been made the willing fool oG by cor rupt and corruplng Minister From that paper Of the 2d inss. we copy the following article, as a specimen of what is developing:-
 To the agency ofan unseen irresponsible influence, s he attributed the rupture between the President and and to m is to be attributed the late extraordinary dissolution of the cabinet.
 General Jackson, far from removing them on ac- count of the manner in which they have discharged seir official duties, in his letters to Mr. I"gham and Gov. Branch, saya
 "Ia accepting Of your resignation, 1t is with great FeasHre that bear testimony iO the integrity and zeal with which you have managed the fiscal concerns of tle nation. tN your discharge of all the Gutes ol your office, over which have any control, have been fully satisfied"
 Wherefore, thea, were they dismissed Was it be- cause ihe public interest required their removal! Mr. lngtam Is explicit this point. He says iD is let- ter lately published
 "The official intercourse of the Heads of Depart ments with each other, and with the President, has never 10 my knowledge, been interrupted Tor mo- ment, nor has any difference ot opinion. as 10 the
 easures of the government, divided the cabinet 'n G..n ' loee aHcnrdnR