Litchfield enquirer., 1835-07-23

reached here yesterday from the Mandan Vil- lages, we learn that the steam boat Assina- boine, with cargo of ll85 packs of peItries, SZc. from the mouth of the Yellow Stone riy- CT. was entirely destroyed by fire on the lst inst. at Heart River, about 6ity miles below the villages. The boat had grounded in de- scending, and took fire from the stove pipe in the Ladies' cabin, while exertiOns were ma king by the crew to get her off. The flames spread with such rapidity, that all efforts tO 'extnguish them proved unavailing. The loss of boat and cargo is estimated at from 70 to 8O.OOO dOlIars-nO insurance. There were on board. in addition t0 a vast number of Ia- dian and other cnriOsities, four live buffaloes. which were cut loose and swam to shore.
 s. L0uis Paper.
 '.INe Hide aud I'dIIo,o Of an old Or."--- We notice in the Kehnebec papers a sketch of case which came before the Supreme. Court at th" late session in Augusta. and W hiei1 must have given occasion to not little a- musement. The action was brought by Char iiy Vance. a. girl of twenty-ihree, against William Vance, veteran Of seventy. for D di- vOree, with separate maintenance. Ia seems the plaintiff married the defendant, fiA hopes thereby at some day to cUme into pos sessien of good share of his ample fortune but nUt finding Jas inc reporter expresses itl that ecstacy of bliss" tn the married state which she might be separated from him with alimony. for several reasons, not necessary t.A be mentioned here. On being asked previous 10 marriage, why she was about to unite her self to an old man like Mr. Vance. she rppli- ed-.' The hide and tallow ofaneld OK would buy young steer any time v And the old man himself, near the close of the trial, re- marked in relation to his marriage, that, it was all bargain and speculation from begin- ming to end. The report says that the Court granted the plaintiff SlO0 to defray the expen- scs she had incurred, and $2OO a year for maintenance until the further order of the court-that is, S2OO yearly after the first year. payment to be made quarterly.
 The SIX Coccopery of Mr. Samuel Whi,marsh of in length and two stories tn height. It s filled with ranges of sliding draws of iwine lattice work, upo,t which the worms feed, and these in,ersecied by alleys, that the building has fresh air and light. 1t is capable of feeding four five millions of worms At the present time he has not bu, about eight bun dred thousand. He has them in all the various ges, just of the egg, to the winding of cocnOns
 Il is curious enous, .o see the amos, invisible s inst out of egg. less than half the size oi A pin head. To notice their expansion each successive day, more than doubling lhemselves in size, and in- creasing in few weeks, from the mere mi.e the di- meDsions of three inch corpulent caterpillar. Then to notice their habits and insuci aud way oflakng
 
 leaf until it is all devoured. Again the preparation for winding itself up in the cocoon, attaching it's extrenties to some object, and then throwing out it's threads n every direction unii excludes itself from sight It thus erecis its own tomb and encoses itself within its bosom.
 Mr Whi,marah does not feed lis worms a, presept upOn the Chinese mulberry. The plant is yet rare and the growers anxions tO multiply them, by ay-. ing down all the shouis. From the great num,er der cultivation by various gentlemen in this i"wn and the taken increase them, there Is be- leve the supply will he adequate n all demands next spring. Mr. WhiHarsh has trees three fOuS feet in height which wiIhsiond the severity of iase winter WDharned. Ga snme of ihese trees the berry is found, and great will be iakei. l., presetsa the seed, that the precise characer of the plaus proPagated from them may be acc.'n'ey known.
 Northampton Courier.
 Gen. w. II. Harrison lately paid visit io Indiana, and the Louisville Journal states that wherever he wen" the people rose nphy 'housants to hail him as friend, benefactor and father.
 The shout is changed. IL is longer " hurra for Jackson" but hurra for Harrison the conqacror oE Gen. Proctor-the Hero of,he Thames.-N. Y. Star.
 The Evening Post says that Mfr. Fancy a ederais heinz, he aays,' misied byfhe geniMs oF such as Hamito"'s false Hghs in poiitics ;" but that Fancy has long since discovered that they were q Prodgious | The only change in the politics of Ro- ger R. Fancy. s from the federalism of l798 to the "l and commons. and his practically illustrate his op"io" that the '' kirg ean do no '0rong" Cat such a man democrat7 What an abuse of .erms.
 ~. Y. Star.
 Exemplary Damagr.-Oar readers will recoilect that butcher named Pendergrass, with two of his roous companions, convicted at the Court "f Sessions few months since. of an outrageous assaue and battery upon Mr. George Sni,h and his wife, who i" company with of her friends. sleigh rid ing on ,hs Harlem road during the last winter. The Recorder inflicted only slight fine on the rufians-- not deeming it necessary mprison any ilhcm. AL ter the termination of the proceedings in the crminst prosecution, MT. Smifh commenced civil suit againse Pendergast, and Saturday norniog last, SherG's Jury assessed his damages at too thoEscnd fce hH> dred dOiiars.-U. s. 7ransrrips. 'fss<
 Editoridl FSaeas. has been serious refi- in the streets of Lexington, Ky. between Geo. James Tro,ter. notorious bully aod duelIisi, who in the absence ofMr Pew is editing the Lexingon Ga zee. and Julius Clark, one of the editors of the Lex insiOm Inieligencer. The attack was made by TrOl- ier-o,h parties disc harged their pistols without ef fsc and then ihre them each others heads. Mfr. Bryant, partner Of MT. Clark, who was present. meantime eomme nced a successful attack on Me- o. Haver, a friend of Irouer's. Alter he had rendered him ho,s du cOmbai, s turned upon TroMer assaUled him violently. woanding him severely on he head sR- sil he cried pecc0pi-and the byNanders inlevlered
 Both parties have pereiaated their disgrace, by pah- a