Litchfield enquirer., 1832-05-10

has, by tOte off Committee of Location, been o gated at GOSHEN, on farm about half mile east of the Meeting House.
 The notorious Mina, an account Of whose trial for the murder of Mr. Chapman is given on the preced- ing p"ge, has been sentenced to be hanged but the time is not yet fixed.
 D The great length of the Governors Message has induced US to again postpone the communication Of the Secretary of the Ltch6cd County Temperance Society. It is in type-and. as t will not spoil by Keeping. shall certainly appear next week.
 
 Good nenCs for Old SOldieTss--On Wednesday of last week the House of Representatives passed the Pension Bill by vote of l28IO 46 great many amendments had been proposed, mOst of which were nega'Ved, and the bill fnaly passed in nearly the form in which il was first proposed. It the same day sent 10 the Senate for their apprOVal and from the great majority the bill obtained in the House, it is believed 'ha. it will be carried through the Senate in a short period.
 Distressing Occureace-rhe New.York papers of Saturday contain account of distressing calamity which occurred in that city Friday last about F. M. from which we gather the following particulars n i"'So sure. occupied hv Me9Sfe EhelHs ana feck. corner of Fulton and Clif-sreets fell with remen- dous crash overwhelming several persons, and large amount ot property in it's ruins The building was of brick, six stories high. and occnped three lots of ground the front Fulion-Etreet abont 75 feet, and on Cli-sree about 100; being oftlie largest stores in the city. IL bult during the past season. and has been finished only few weeks, during which time Messrs Phelps and Peck have been, almost with out lntermsslon, dep"sing goods in 1t. Al the time ot the accident neither of tue partners were in the store out all their Clerks were there attending to their usual avocalIons, and one or too gaDga ot aborers the exact number of persons in the hGildng at the time tt fell, has not been as yet aRceriained. The
 terrible truth known ihroug the city, and hundreds of people hurried the ppo:. who inimedi- aie!y mmenced removing the pile of goods aud rub bish in search of those buried in the ruins. They succeeded in saving Mir. J. w. Pitkin from perilous situation unhur; and three other persons, who much injured. The citizens were enabled to con,in- ue their abors through the night, by the light of tor ches, and the illumination of the neighborng houses. About o'clock A. M. a black man was exiricated, who was alive, but insensiblc-his head seriously injured, and his limbs badly broken. Near the same and the foot of another also seeR both sup posed 10 be dead.-Hariford Reu.
 The names of part oi the persons who were killed are-Mrssrs. Thomas H. Goddard, Isaiah Stokes, and and Alfred R. Seymour, Clerks in the store; James PAttison, William Brewer, a chant from Ham, burg, on the Hudson river, David Foreman and four other c"ored persons, names not givon-in all ten. and four or five persons badly wounded One of the partners was visit in the country, and the other had but few minutes before left the to attend meeting Of the Board of Public Schools. The cause of the accident is supposed to be, that the building was put up in the winter, there not sufficient hesion of the brick and mortar. Workmcn were em- played during the whole of Saturday night aud Sum day and Sunday night; but on Monday morning there was still an immense quantity of merchandze, brick and other materials unrcmoved from the ruMs though it was believed al the bodies had been found. Seve- raI persons in passing the store were more less n jured, and many others had very narrow escapcs.]