Litchfield enquirer., 1836-09-15

<enna15r9Big %FeNlOaitOriea.-Tha l1llowiug newapapeFs. heretofore warm m ~1nnorsirS Gen Jackson, have rejected the Van Rmre5 collar: and run up the HARR1sON and GRxT- GER Flags- >-'''''-
 HARRIsBURaH CnONIcrE. CARr1srR Rrpun. LIcAN, ALLEGHANY DEMOCRAT. JUNIArA Ferr PRESS. FALLsTON GAZETTE, CIRARrrRLD Dr1r- 0cRATs MnTOSIA1s @UsQUEHANMAH REersrER. PENNSYLVANIA SENTrEI.
 Grea Regl Esbase Nale.-The building and lot in Wall-street lately occupied bv fhe TT. 8. Bank-the lot being 75 feet by l5O, with the right to an alleyWay-was sold at auc- tion to-day for the handsome sum of tsCO has,.- dred and tOrty=fue AIOsssaHd. .fve hundred dOUars; being an advance of @56yOOO upon the price for which it was sold at auction about six months ago. The purchaser is the new Bank of the State of New York.-N. Y. Anuer.
 The citizens 9 Washington, opposed to the election of Martin Van Buren, are to hold a meeting on Tuesday evening. Where Mar tn Van Buren is best known there he has the fewest friends. We doubt much whether he could get one third of the votes either in Washington, Georgetown or Alexandria.
 MT. poor soldier of the revolution, whose name is not given, and which of course we cannot give, lately fell from wagon and broke his neck, in returning home some. where in the neighborhoad of Johnstown, in this State. He died almost instantly, and the cause, it seems, is to be found in jug of whis- key which he had purchased, and of which he had partaken too freely. When his dead body was taken home to his wife, says the Johnstown Banner, and she was informed of the catastrophe, she remained in her bed, and the nrst question she asked was, "where is the Jug of RUM 2" No such inquiry as how or when the melancholy event had happened2 NO but "where is the jug of rum?''
 Liverpool papers of Sd ult have arrived in New York, in which it is stated that the British ship John Welch, from South America, wrecked on the 9Oth July near West Hoyle, and IA persons drowned also The William, from Dublin, on Red Wharf Bank. and all hands penshed."-Haytford Times.
 What! the John Welch British ship named after the venerable person of this name in Ltchfeld the autocrat of all the Miltonians?
 NEw-dAvEN, Sept. To-
 Destrssctive Fsre.-The establishment of Messrs. At destroyed on Wednesday morning last. This entey prsing company were extensively engaged in the manufacture of Window Sashes and Blinds, in plan-
 ing ana n a,af matching boards and in turning various ar by steam; and the fire was communicated from the furnace to some shavings scattered near it. while the
 @ snne loo nsa s was considerably burned and sufocased and but for would probably have Perished Their loss is snppos ed to be about 5OO0. The establishment gave em- poyment to about 90 hands; several of whom, in ad- dtlon to the sacrifices which are common to the who6 Tn the loss of time blythe suspension ofbusnese have SlOoo. = " '0 '''''''''' comparatively little value, considerably injured; and one, the dwelling house of Flora Benjamin, color ed woman, was entirely destroyed.
 gainst Richard Ms Johnson. ."-Bahimore Repu5.
 The Republican must admit however, that there is a color for them.-LOaisvine Jour.
 Tennessee, on the 20th ut to the Hon. MT. Peyton. member oa Congress from that state. It is in these words -
 Martin Van Buren.-Like the misetoe which has nourshment it itreceives from the mighty Hickory" truer designation of Van Burenism has never yet been given. There is earthly foundation for that plant It is parasite in every characteristic. It grows only upon the trunk of another tree-and not ancther neither for has no Body of it's ownothing
 under heaven to stand or rather creep upon than the " flck0ry After all, however, there lS some injus- tice done the misletoe for saw 1t attached to that tree In fact will not grow there. is the poison svy that winds itsek around Walnut, and that perhaps is MT. Van Buren's best representative.
 There is a certain Mr. Hospt, fiddler or something else in the orchestra o the Fremont Theatre, who has lately taken it into his head to thrash all the Boston Editors; and to say the truth the fellow has succeed ed pretty wel Tn the enterprise except, that with all other lofty conceptions of genus there have been one or two unt0waFd circumstances to mar the briIl iahcy of the achievement. The theory was upon a grand scale, but in making practical application of it, Mfr. HoMm has found obstacles. Whenever he has undertaken to whip an Editor, the Editor has whipped him His first essay was upon the Editor of the Nor ming Post who kicked him down two or three pair of stairs into the street, with serious damage person. and pantaloons. His next effort was made few days snce upon MT. Harrington, who publishes the Daily Herald, and then we are sad to say, precisely the results followed MT Houptough not tolet these trfes discourage him; only "mstortunesin business and will be made up to hm, probably in his next 
 RAode Eland-A wosthy effort is making to rescue this State from the hands of the Benites. The Pro- vidence Journal thus discouses in relation to her vote on the Presidency:
 "Whatever may be thought and said abroad of Rhode Isand she has yet voted for Martin Van Barren, and what is more, she spN The grounds ot ths statement we mean to explain another te> Sufficient It is to add at the present. that the exerons made by the Wings in other States have made deeP impression here, and that the members of the Whig partys seeing what energy and zeal may effect solved that they wifi follow the example in North Car .,h:ch M. sL-~,rr .ars6