Litchfield enquirer., 1836-03-10

Strikes and RiOts.-Yesterday and the day
 bef"re the sferedOres and IabUrers On ship board struck for higher wages, which, con sidrring the inclrmency of tie season. the employers agreed to give. EIatpd by what they deemed a victory, these misguided men 1 then insisted that the owners of the packet { lines, and other larg" employers, should sign
 d paper pledging themselves to continue the , same rates throughout the year. This was properly and promptly refused. wherpupUn
 the strikers became riOtOus, and marched along the wharves and cOmnelled alI who continued at work to break off Approach ing the packet ship EngIond. however, they found Capt. Waite prepared, with hrass frld 1 piece, loaded with grape, and himself armed
 with UistOls-wh hich he fairly warned them
 would be used. the first instant any attempt
 was made to come an hoard his ship, or m"-
 lest those working tArEe. Quite satisfied that
 this spirited man was in earnest, they passed
 on el=ew here. The police officers were call
 ed in. headed by Justice BlOOdgoOd, and l fight enS'ed. in which officer named Brink,
 was so dangerously injured, that his life Is 1 deemed in imminent jeopardy.
 l At the same period the laborers among the
 ruins, principally Irish, also struck for an in
 crease of wages. Old Hays and other off 1 cers pretty soon were among them, and after 1 experimenting the ring:eaders and admOnish- ing others, the mob was dispersed-and to- ] day they are quirt.-N Y. Spec.
 The presence of the military and other 1 causes eiftctually kept down the "s,rikes" from doing any more mischief, and most of
 them again went to work, at an increase of ] wages of 25 cents per day.]
 "Werrv Partickier. ."-" John go up to
 Deacon LenOx's store, and tell him to send
 me a pound of his best >raisins-to you hear.
 my darling 1" "Yeth'm! yrih'm!" John
 posted off, and was gone nearly half an hour. Why you little rascal, you've been gone I nearly long enough t" make the raisins. Why didn't you step qnicker-the deacon haint
 been all this time weighing out a pound of
 raisins, has he 2" "YeIh. he hab too. He
 thaid how he must he very 'iickler-so ne kept me waiting ill he could get jrih one pound" "Why, John. don't understand what you mean" "Why jeth as he wath
 g"in' to empty the raithins out of the scales into paper-he stopped good while and looked at it, and then he thaid he guethrd
 he'd got a very Ieete too many fo, a pound and he must be very parickIer-so he took
 out one raithen, and put in stem, jeth to
 make weight right"
 Very iate from Florida.-A vessel arrived at Charleston on the G5th from St. Augustine, i which place she left on the preceding day. There were seven hundred mounted men
 arrived at Jacksonville 21st, from Georgia and South Carolina they would leave next m"r- 1 ming for Picolata. An express arrived from PicOlata just as the Mills was leaving St. Au. 1 l gus,ine. which stated that Gen. Scott had ar-
 rived ihere-l8 or 20 reports of cannon were
 heard at the time tn the direction of fPicolata.
 Ia salute ProbabIy.)-Nat. IatsH.
 Latest from Florida.-The following is an 1 extract, of letter from an officer of the Ar l my to his correspondent in this city. dated Fort Brooke, Tampa Bay, February IS, 1886: "Wr arrived here on the llth. after very
 boster"us passage from New Orleans. Each ] day we have been expecting to start for Fort King, but as yet have been delayed from time ] to time, untiI we bpgin to think that we shall 1 not go there at all. We start this morning, however. for the woods, and, if we keep on
 10 WythlacOoche, it wil! be very we'll if
 not, why no matter. There will be force of 1000 men 10 take the field, of which 45O ! will be regulars, and the balance militia. The
 prospects ofa fight are pretty fair, and. in my
 next. l hope t" inform you that we have met and captured great many Indians. l am in
 hurry now, SD that you must excuse me for
 not writing m0re." In addition to the above, we learn from o,h-
 CT sources that Gen. Gaines had reached Fort Br0"ke; that the SloOp of War Vandalia was
 lying IA miles below the Fort, not being able l to get nearer and that for some days before, { Indian signs had been seen within from l2 to
 xO miles of the fort. | VERMoSr.-The Whig and the Anti-ma- s"n'c Conventions which have lately been in
 session in Montpelier for the purpose of nom mating candidates for the Presidency and V. 1, Presidency. tprmioa,-d their labors hy nomi. oa'ing William H. Harrison of Ohio, for President. and Francis Granger of N. York. for Vice President. The votes in the Anti.
 masonic convention stood as foIlOws:-
 William H. Harrison. 87-Daniel Webster, 28-M. Van Buren, 27-F. Grange., 2O- Edward Everett, l.
 In the WIfig convention the above nomna-
 ton was by a unanimous vote.
 ' Blood tor SaPper.-A Van Bnren Justice of the Peace in Hartford, alluding to the
 chartrring "fthe Bank. publicly declared. that
 "he hoped blood would flow (" the horses
 bits, till every man who assisted in passing
 the bill was exterminated."-AlLa Adv. II Archaeological melancholy occurrence recently
 took place ]" the establishment for painting clock tab
 lets belonging to s. Osborn. Esq, of Harwinton.
 vessel containing preparation of rOsin and spirits Of
 turpen'ine, which standing upon the stove.
 accidentally overturned, and the contents coming in
 contact with the s'ose, took fire, filling the with