Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1832-09-20

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couimodate sixty pereOns nds c0assant employment in
the conveyance Of passengers The FIRST division oil
the road, embracing distance Of six miles, win be
completed in the OfIhs ensuing month Of De-
tOber, when locomotive steam engine, now constrnc
ting, will be placed on the road.
unprecedented Speed.-The new Steamboat I" Pat
rick Henry" built in Baltimore. TO run between Nor
folk aud Richmond, now in the line, and perform
ed the distance tl45 mlesl on Tuesday last, in z
hours and 45 minutes, sloppage deducted.
An old BOy.-The Chenango Republican relates the
following remarkable anecdote: a M
Among the applicants for pensions before the Vice
ChaHceOr's court, in this county, few days since,
were two men, father ana his son the former aged
about 81 years, the latter 20. They both served two
years or more in the revolutionary and the faith
CT in tho Preach war. While the son was giving his
declaration 10 the court, the father caused much aUgh
erby occasionally correcting him with tut Boy you
Npe mistaken" " You are wrong, boy!" The term
" boy" applied TO a war-worn veernn Of 20, whose
whitehead locks aud wrnkled usage evinccd extreme
old age, was irresstiby amusing.
Extraordinary Madness.-There is al present man
who believes himself dead ever since the battle or
Ausierli'z, where he received serious wound. His
delirum consists in that he cai longer recognize
his own body. Ihe is asked how he 10, he says, you
ask how Pere Lambert is, bot he Is dead be was kill
led at the battle Of Aus,erIi,s what you see is
not him, but machine made in his likeness, and
which has heen very badly made. This man has fire.
quenily fallen into state Of immobiliiy and insensi
biliy, which lasts several days. Neither sinapisms
nor blisters ever the slightest pain The skin
has been frequently pinched d pierced with pins,
without his being aware oft. Does not this man Of
fer remarkable example Of delirium manifestly in
dusnced by want Of seusbiliy in The skin, and want
Of well marked .viscera sensibily ?-LOndon Medical
Journal
The Morning Post says, that adaughterof Mr.. Coop
er the trageia" 10 to appear upon the stage for the
first sime in the of,he approaching winter.
Murder.-At Suckasunny Plains, N. J. on Friday
night, l4sh inst, about 10 o'clock. Lewis Riley and
another man left tavern, and on their way home,
called at the house Of Joseph Perkins for admi.ance,
which Perkins refased-alier some cross words, they
left the house, anl while shutting the gate, Perkins
lodged the contents Of his gun in the head Of Riley,
| who expired on the spot.
Firs.-On the morning Of Thursday last fire broke
out 10 the rear OF So Vandam-st. New- York, and in
tho short space Of hour reduced twenty buidngsto
ashes.
Distressing Moraiay.-We understand that during
the prevalence Of the cholera at Williamsburg, n-
dividuals from the family Of Mr. Marshail, in that
place, were taken off. The first attacked at
about IL o'clock Sunday night the 22d INST. andb
Monday nigh. ensuing, four were dead. Two others,
one servan. belonging to the family, have since di-
ed.-Brookiyn Star. -s
Unfortunate Accideut.-On Sunday last, as Mr.. II.
Dooli,.le, rtudcn. Of medicine, with Dra. Beecher
and Shaw, Of KnowlesviIe. was standing in the door
of mill ia Clarendon, loaded gun in the hands ola
hastily on his way shoot rats, went of, and
wounded him MORALLY in the sidc.-Bfedisa Herald.
On Friday week, near Springfield, Clark county,
Ohio, bold attempt, by six men 10 rob the United
States mail coach, was baffled by the courage and
readiness Of the driver Two Of the assaants seized
the leaders by their heads, while the comrades threat
eneG the driver. He whippsar up, aad his horses MS
resoiu,e hnseif gallOPed on and shook OF the rob
bers.
| John Braas, Esq.-We see by the York IL. c.
Courier, that this celebrated lndan Chief died ofhe
Cholera At she Mohawk Village, the Grand River,
on the 9Th mlt. Mr.. Brant was u man OF education
and respectabily, and was ihe Principal Chief and
Superintendent Of the Six Nations Of Indians. Tie
Courier, in speaking Of che deceased says-Society
udD tO1t VS. uSsSe0VS "sss BS"uSHsnsity companion
the poor have lost friend-and the Six Nations OF
Indians in particular have lost father and benefac-
tor.
DiaMsund cut Diamond--Th New. Orleans Gazette,
Of the 9Th uli. slaies that NJ Of the gambling
houses in Chartresssreet, fellow who had been
very successful at play, suddenly started up, and Sci
zing quantity Of bank notes, which were displayed
on the table in the usual attractive style, 10 the first
moment Of surprise and siupefaction by which the
keepers Of the table and other attendants were
chained 60, securely 10 the street, and made good his
retreat. The amount Of duty thus Obtained 10 said
have been about nine hundred dollars.
Nec- York. September l5.--A very active fall busi-
| ness has now commenced; the wharves are crowded
with shipping and the merchants fromi the inferior be-
ing engaged in laying in their snppes and forwarding
them, has gwen great hustle apd activity TO the city,.
We have rarely Pearl, Water and Senil,- streets
90 crowded with carts and goods N the present time
The cholera aiihasgh known 70 exist not the sub
iect hardly Of conversation, cenainly not Of alarm,
paicularly 40 none Of citizens OF notoriety or
strangers appear be subjects 81 .-Ne,U- York Ad-
vevfiser. , esq ,.-..f..48
Illinois Coliege.-The annual commencement ofthis
ins,isuon was held at Jacksonvils on the 18th 'ul
On the day previous, che Rev. Edward Beecher late
Of Bosios, was inasgurasd Prssdeai, and Rev. yuli-
90 H. S.urtevanf, Professor Of Mathematics and Nat