Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-16

Stacy, were Consumed Oy nre on Tuesday morning. One of the young men disceverfd the fire when opening the store fUr the busl- ness of the day--no doubt is therefore enter iained of its originating in spontaneous com bustion. The whole building was fire prO0f. the window shutters and doors being covered on the outside with sheet iron. and the roof was of slate. The store was filled with mer- chandise of various kinds, coffee, brandy, sak- peter, SLc. &c. The explosions from the brandy were loud and frequent, and resem- bled the distant discharge of heavy aFiilrrys The loss is estimated at upwards Of $lOO.OOO. The insurance amounted to about that sum.
 A destructive fire took place in N. York ear. ly on Saturday. It broke ont in the Kiln Of the hair cloth manufactOry of Messrs. John son & Green, at the corner of goth street and 9th Avenue. The factory. which wal lOq feet long, built of brick, two stories higb andes a building 0f about the same dimensions at ? tacl1cd to it, of wood, with the contents of both, consisting of costly extensive nachine-- ry, ard large stock of manufactured and un- manufactured materials, were entirely con stunned. 100 workmen we're employed in the factory. The fire continued its ravages until se:eu or eight dwelling houses, with most of their contents, were destroyed, and seSerat others seriously injured. Two stables. with their contents. including two very valuable horses and barouche, were also bornrd.--' The fire is said to have been more calanliious in it's consequences than any which has takeir place for several years. Most of the families burnt out were in indgent circumstances.
 Hartford COarant.
 New- Hauen Jan. 9.-Wc are informed that distressing disease of anamolons character.
 
 KiIlingworth Eleven persons have died oft within d few weeks, and none ofthOse attack ed have recovered.-Heratd.
 Virginia erect.-M:. TaZeweH has been c. lected Governor of Virginia-Mr. Daniel, the Van Buren candidate, receiving on the first ballot twenty seven votes, and in the last three.
 This important event decides the course of Virginia, and. we may say, eUery State south Of the Potomdc. It has struck dsmay and consternation in the Kitchen Cabinet. and Blair of the Globe says that it the result of violent efforts, and of all sorts of driling.- Will not the members of Congress go with their own State in checking the advances of anarchy and drspotism? No doubt. no doubt. Virginia never speaks in vain to any of her sons.-Noah's EUe. Star.
 Letters nave OPeO TecciFeu IrOtD NaSHUS- ton in this city, which state that the Senate will not confirm MT. Fancy. the present Sec retary of the Treasury, that he will retire, and that B. F. Butler, Esq. the present At.or- ney General. will take his place. Our own letters received from Washington are silent on the subect.-N. F. Dai. Ado.
 4 Country Editor is oue who reads news papers, selects miscellany. writes articles on all subjects, folds papers, and s0netimes ear rics them, prints jobs, runs errands. faksto all his patrons who cali. patiently receives blame for thousand things that never were and nevpr can be done, gets little money, has lime and material to satisfy his hunger, or to enjoy the quiet of natures sweet restorrr," sleep, and estrems himselfp pe- cuIiarly happy, if he is not assaulted and bal tered ny some unprinciplrd demagogne who loves public shows, and hires the rabble with a treat of cider brandy to vote him into some pretty office. A man Tho does all this, and as much more not here recorded, you well know is busy animal :; and as he performs the work or so many different persons. he may justly he supposed their representative, and tn have an indisputable right. when speak ing of himself, to use the plural number. and to say We. on all occasions, and in all pla- ccs.- WiUiamstoaOn .4du. ..,
 The following singular superscripiion was noticed on Letter which passed through the Hartford Post Ofice few days since. We give it an inserlion as a Poeiical Curiosity of the day.
 To Warren township speed your way
 In Litchfeld County straight
 B Gilbert find withou, delay
 Or else B Gilbert's Mate.
 Iwportant Case-Inthe UniteL States Circuit Cour:, on Saturday last his Honor Mir. Justice Story gave very learned opinion in the ease of John Ames ,s Howard and La,hrop This action, it will he remem- hered, was commenced by Mir. Ames, against Howard and La,hrop, damages which he had sus- tained by their Infringement of his Patent Paper Mak ing Mac hne. The defendants moved for new trial, for various Judge S,ory afier full argument. has decided against Me motion, and refused grana new trial. or course judgment is now rendered in this for the plaintiff, and thereby the validity of Mr. Ames patent is completely established.
 Bos Trans.
 1He Springfield Sonnam6ulist, ss we learn to-day from medical and other authority connected with the Worcester Asylum, has been completely cured her dis order had its origin in the stomach, though the mme- dia,e afier the paroxysms a determination. of blood to the head The cure has been effected wholly by medical ,reament.-lNeE Jour.
 committee of the Virginia House of Delegates have reported resolutions strongly opposition e nl. oAo