Litchfield enquirer., 1832-01-26
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Member of Congress.-Augusiin S. Clayton, of Ga. has been elected to Congress, in the place of Mr. Lumpk", hy majority f1O46 votes over his compei- itor, Judge Schey.
 Voice of Indiana.-In the Senate of Indiana, joint resolution in favor of Internal Improvements, a protecting Tarf, and rschartering the Bank of lhe United States, ias been read third time and passed, by vote 22to7. joint resolution has also been passed inviting the President, Directors, and Compa. ny of the Bank Of the United States, to locate branch in the State ofIndiana.
 Verdict.-In trial for the seduction of married woman, which took place the last term of the Court of Common Pleas for Aleghany County, Penn. the jury brought in vsrdc. against the defendant with $2,5OO damages
 Near Buffalo, on the 10th inst. while German was
 eing tree, the of his associate slipped from ths helve, and literally the throat of the former 60 that he died almost instantly. AF We learn, says the Boston Courier, from Newbury- port, that man named Herrick, who was arrested on suspicion of being the murderer of Me- Page, has been committed to take his trial for that offence. 1 Dreadfl Loss of L;ves.-The Russian line ofbauIe ship, Fort ChamPenoise, Rear Admiral Plate, having just returned from six years cruise in the Meder- ranean, while hauling in the mole, St. Peiersburg on the evening of October 19. blew up, and 225 per- sons perished. It took fire from lantern being i'm. prudsn.y left open while sweeping out the Magazine
 An increase of 1000 only, from 5000, will lessen the representation member from each oG the fol. lowing States, viz :-Rhode Isand Pennsylvania, Vir- gina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiaaa. By in. creasng the ratio to 5OO0O other states will be redu- ced one member each---Mane and Connecticut being among the number. 480OO as the basis, South Caro- lima will have the largest fraction unrepresented |; il Georgia and Massachusetts will have the next largest
 fractions bat any other basis will leave large frac-
 tions to some of the states. At 5000, Maine Rhode
 Island Connecticut. Pennsylvania, &Sc. will suffer the loss of large fractions.-Registey.
 Mr. Hanseoms, of South Carolina, has bequeatled the sum of 800 to the College of CharIesion and
 an equal sum to the Orphan House Ofthat City. Fair indications e prosperity to Rochsster-Amons the other Improvements effected the pas, year, ndica ting the prosperous condition of vags there ii
 perhaps that marks distinctly the progres. ofimprovement than the fac, that Circus huidios has been converted into Toloso Chaadier's Shop l. and our old Theatre in'' L''''g gs! stss!. o. Navigution ofthe Mississippi.- -Capisin Shrevo ha ,, beon several years employed in clearing away ,h
 snags c. that obstract the navigation Of tho Mssis
 spp, and other rivers at the west. Daring the pres
 eni year, he has removed 2265 snags from the bed c
 the Mississippi, and since hS has been in his employ " meat, he has eat channels, turn the whoI
 cuFreHt of iho river, and shorten is length nearly miles. And ell this has been done by steam pOwer.- From the bottom of the Ohio, logs, roots, 6e hav ' been taken in numbers almost beyond credibity. As At the late fire in Macon. Ga. $11OO worth of B ]" bes, belonging to the American Bible Sociey, wei eel burnt.