Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1836-06-16
IMPORTANT.
xAIN1.
From the National Intelligencer. of June 2.


The SURPLUS REvENuE-Our readers will have OBJ
served that the debate in the Senate on the bill I" to
regulate the deposes of the public money resulted,
with all the amendments which had been proposed to
it, to select committee Of nine members to consider
Of the whole mattera report thereon The commit
tee was appointed by ballot to consist of the following
Messrs. Wright Of New York, Chairman; Calhoun
Of South Carolina, Webster Of Massachusetts, King
Maine Leigh Of Virginia Hendricks Of Indiana, EW-
We learn TIA. the deliherations Of the committee
an proposed by Mr. on Tuesday, IN his a.
mendmcnt for the disposition of the surplus money Of
the Government which amendment was as follows.
shall be in the Treasury of the United States on the
first day of January 1887, reserving -- millions,
shall be divided among the several Statesin proportion
70 their respective amounts Of population e. ascertain
of the second section Of the first article of the Constitu
ton; and the Secretary the Treasury shall pay the
same to such persons as the several States may au;
at the following times, viz one-ha the first day of
April 1887 one-quarter part on the first day of July,
1887 and the remaining quarter on the first day OF DC
t0ber 1887; and all States which shall receive their
severa proportions according to the provisions Of this
act shall be taken and understood thereby to pledge
the public faith Of such States torepay the same, or
gress shall require the to be repaid by any act
acts which shall require payment, rateably and in
equal proportion, from all the States which had recev-
ed the same" @fs E's'5@e ''.tf.
Erecution-The sentence of death was executed
upon John Earls in the prison yard, at Williamspor
Pa. on Tuesday last. Earls had been convicted, on
crcmsantal evidence Of the murder of his wife du-
ring her illness subsequent to the birth Of child The
act was accomplished by putting arsenic into cup Of
chocolate. prepared for her supper She partcok Of
dn S wss Se
circumstanhal evidence, and the accused persisted
throughout in asserting his innocence Of the crime the
effect was 2 produce doubt IN the minds Of
sentence That doubt, however, was removed on Sat
urday last. On that day. being the third preceding
that fixed for his executloI the unhappy convict sent
guilt of the awful crime charged upon him. He has
left written narrative, giving all the particulars con-
nected with the act, and the inducement which led
gether with the report his trial. for the benefit Of his
orphan children IA horrid legacy1 He was execu-
ted in conformity to his sentence in the jail yard OF
Lycoming county, on Tuesday last-Bak. Parrots
Mr. Niles, like Isaac Hill, reads al his speeches in
the Senate. -ChiLicOtke Gas. 49, t.N
He ought to read them, Nobody else will.-B.
dopted at meeting Of the friends Of Gen. Harrison in
Harrison county, Va. are OF the nght sort:
Resolved, That we can beat Martin Van Buren,.
Resolved, Tlsat We will do it.
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Melancholy Accident-On Monday, the 23d Of May,
while some men in Collinsvine were at work blasting
in quarry IS or 30 rods from the house Of the unor
tunate sufferer stone weighing several pounds was
thrown by the blast, and hit Nancy c. Ptlin. aged
IA years on the head, while standing in the door yard
Her su was broken 90 that the brains ran out. She
suffered until Sunday following, when her spirit tool
its FIGHT for an eternal existence Her parents reside
in New Hartford, where her rerains were inferred
Another Of the volunteers. recently returned iron
tbs Florida campaign. died in Charleston On the T
ult being the seventh of the volunteers who have die
ID that city, in consequence Of diseases arising iron
privations and exposure during The campaign.
Mr.. Adams gave notice during the discussion O
Wednesday. e The admission Of Arkansas into tn
Unon, that he did mot consider himself bound by an
compounds. and that. Il no other member did. b
would Hsove TO restrict Arkansas from authoEisin
slavery. a48t al IS Ya ha.Gsper ~
On the 18Th ulE. fifty houses were destroyed by fir
IN the lower municipality Of New O1ieans The cour
eli appropriated $4,000 fox the relief Of the sufferer
aTHe MOnss<. Noes 81 tas United States Ban
are al q Prsmirn oftwo and half to three per Ger
! over specie in TsHnessess! t..s-....s