Litchfield enquirer., 1837-11-16

be removed by any means, it can never be replaced, and rolls into the sea. The spot, as have said, is encrusted with white ce- ment' and the egg, as soon as it is laid, is siimto over with a soft viscious humidity, wnIcn quickly causes it's adhesion to the rock, as firmly as ifthey had been fastened togeth- CT with bars of iron.
 Col. Benton is making public speeches, exhorting the Missouri militia to hasten to the field of glory in Florida. We really wish, that the Great Expunger would set them the example ofhastening there himself. We should like to see whether he or Oseola would be most expert at setting balls in motion" Episcopal Trial-The Right Rev. Bishop Smith, of the Diocese of Kentucky, has been for some time under trial before an Ecclesi- astical Court, composed of Bishops McIlvaine, of Missouri and Indiana, and M. Coskry, of Michigan. We are not able to gather the charges exhibited against the right Reverend Prelate from any account we have seen of the proceedings, but though according to the technical requirements of the CanonS of the Church. the Court was obliged to pronounce some of the specifications proved, yet the Bishop was clearly acquitted of the charges against him-six in number, and he was ta- ken back to the fellowship of the Church with warm unction, and with Christian sensibil- ity, equally honorable to the accused and to those who had sat in judgment on him. He was fully and most honorably acquitted, and every member of the Episcopal Church and every man who wishes we'll to the Christian character, as every good man does wish, will be gratitied at such result.-N. Y. Gag.
 BRANDON, Miss. Sept. 29.
 Unparalleled Murder.-On the night of the 25th inst. the most unprecedented murder in the record of crimes was committed in Simp- son county, Miss. Samuel Brown, of the age of 96 years, and his wife, very old lady, were both murdered, in their house, together with three negroes. MT. Brown was pru- dent, saving, economical old man, and had the reputation in his neighborhood of having on hand large sum of silver; and on that night some fiend in human shape approached the house, and, from appearance, with light wood knot & hatchet broke the skulls of both the old persons, in a most frightful and la- cerated manner-and with the same brutal barbarity killed the three negroes, and threw two men on the fire, and left the negro wo- man weltering in her gore on her bed. All Mr. Browns silver, as his neighbors say, to the amount of $9O0O, was taken out of his chest; $350 paper money in the same chest was left.
 One negro woman on the place not mur- dered, says, at late hour of the night she was walked from her sleep by noise; that she run out and saw her master and mistress lying on the porch, murdered; and some one with torch in his hand forcing negro man into the house, as was thought, to show the money-the same man was afterwards mur- dered and thrown on the fire. The woman, afraid to stir, gave no alarm until morning, when the neiIhb0rs assembled to behold this awful sight. No evidence has yet been dis covered that would give the slightest clue to the murderer. From the $S35O paper money being left, some suspicion rests on the ne- groes; but the public eye is rather turning to certain individual well known in the neighborhood. The hand of justice will O. vertake him.
 PoLrcE.-B Bigamy.-O Officer Bowyer yes terday arrested a good looking son of the Emerald Isle, named Owen Coote, on a charge of having appropriated to himself a greater portion of mans best gift than was allowed by the severe laws; or, in other words, poor Owen was charged with bigamy. The accused about two years since managed to win the affections of a fair down eastern girl, somewhere in Vermont, and her he made his lawful wife. Having resided with her as long as he felt inclined, he left her to chew the cud of secret and bitter sorrow, and made tracks for Albany. He had not been there many days before his rosy cheeks and comc- ly appearance attracted a damsel there, and Owen, forgetting all that occurred in Yer mont, persuaded her to become Mrs. Owen Coote. He however only enjoyed the hap piness of the married state one day and night, when his conscience smote him and he took French leave. The above facts being made known to Justice Cowles in Albany, he gran- ted warrant for the arrest of the Irish Ma homedan, who was caught just in time to pre- vent his departure for N. Orleans, for which place he had engaged a passage. He will be at once sent to Albany for trial.-N. Y Cour. Experiment ,oith Poiaioes.--Mr. Wm. Clark, IT, of this town, obtained couple of pota- toes at the Savings Bank, Boston-not as loan, but as U gratuity-last winter. from few just imported from England, which were supposed to be an excellent kind of potatoes. They were laid away and forgotten till they had sprouted, and the sprouts had grown perhaps two inches. To obtain the greatest possible number from them for seed, Mir. Clark disposed of them in the following man. ner, in his garden. The sprouts, seven in number, were broken from one potatoe, and set out about sixteen inches apart, with the tops just above the surface, and the potatoe itself planted; the other potatoe was planted with the sprouts on. allowing the tops of them to remain uncovered. After the sprouts from the latter potatoe had grown somewhat they were spread apart each way, and covered up with soil from their insertion at the hill to near the end of the vines, to make them spread. In doing this, three of the vines were broken of, which were set out, and grew. These potatoes were not hilled at all 1; merely keeping down the weeds was all that