Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1836-02-18

Bank of the United Stazes-The Committee on In
ierna Impros Of the House Of Representatives
ofPenosylvania, have reported bill to grant CHAR
ter for thirty years to the stockholders, with the
cepon Of the United States, Of the Bank Of the U. s.
The bill BY which this charter is granted contains
rous provisions for app opratng the bonus be paid
by the bank and for other purposes. The bank is
pay bonus Of $4,000, 600 at so days no,ice-,o sob
scribe $5O0,O0O in three Railroad Companies, aud
$50, 900 in a Navigation CompaDy-to loan the State
$6,00O.O0O at rate equal to about per cent. when
ever demanded, on sock not reimbursable until the
termination Of the cbarter-and to make temporary
loans, to the amount Of 81, 100000 n any year at
3per cent.-Bosion Messenger.
DR.. Xavier Saubert. the celebrated Fire King, died
10 New-York, on Wednesday last, in a most awful
manner. He was engaged n making some expert.
mens in chemistry with phosphorc e,her. or prussc
acid which exploded and scattered his mortal frame
inso thousand atoms.
Fattening Hogs on 4ppkes.-Mr. Oren Kingsley Of
Wesshamp.on recently killed two hogs, one weighing
400 and the other $40 pounds. They were, he says,
the latest hogs tina. he bu,chered and yielded
lard in abundance. They fed almost entirely
with apples until the severely cold weather in Dec.
$1,000
five weeks they had six bushels Of provender and Is
or 90 bushels OF potatoes. Mr.. X. is confident tina,
apples for stock are estimated a, half their value
Hampshire Gas.
"A cotton shed belonging to MIR. J. Cummings. OF
Savannah. Georgia, and containing cotton to the a.
mount OF 500 600, burned down, and with s con-
tents entirely destroyed, the 1l,h inst. A negro
woman and two children are said 10 have persisted in
the flames.
Fire at little Faiis.-By the Albany Evening Jour
nal we learn that serious fire happened this -four
ishing tow" the Mohawk the night Of the Oath inst.
# broke in large brick building belonging Mr..
Thomas Could in The central and business part Of the
village. !, was occupied by three mercantile es,ab-
lishmen's (Messrs Burch, Tryon, and Wilcox) on
the LIST story the printing Office Of the Mohawk
Courier and three lawyers Offices on The second;
grocery in the basement. and shoemaker iD the third
story. Mr.. Noonan Of the Courier lost every thing
bSt wac hall insured. Some Of the law books were
saved.
Judge Israel B. Grant, OF Galway. Missouri, 10 re-
turning from Fulton TO his residence, was inhumamy
murdered within halls mile Of his own house-beioR
shockingIy mangIed and stabbed six or seven times,
his throat cut TO the bone Of ihe neck and his body
bruised apparently with a club. Though he a
kind master, his murder ID attributed to one Of his
groes.
A shocking murder was committed at the Planters
Hotel, New Orleans. in tile latter part Of December.
Several fellows who had been carousng in the refec-
tory to the bar, and picking aquarrel with Mr..
Armstrong the proprietor, and his brother and the two
bar-keepers, began finally to throw the glasses, whe"
one Of them, Washington Whitaker, gambler, drew
a Bowie knife and plunged il through the heart of
young by the name Of Murphy, who remained in
the bar after the res, had escaped. The wretches,
Whitaker and his brother, who was also an accom-.
plice, were arrested the same night.
During the FIRE at New-York, store was burned,
10 which was contained 100000 lbs. of pig lead. be-
longing to merchant in Philadelphia. After the fire
was over and the rubbish removed. it found that
the lead had melted into large masses tina, the
"er was obliged to quarry it out. One piece alone
got out, weighing near a ton.-Philad. Gas.