Litchfield enquirer., 1838-01-25

were conducted into the room in which Col. Ward was sitting, together with some two or three ladies-his intended wife amongst the number. Upon their entering the room Col. Ward rose and extended his hand to Latay- cite. He refused, saying he would shake hands with no such d-d rascal: The rest answered in the same tone. Coi. Waro re- marked that he was not In the haolt oI taking abuse from any one-tkat they were not in proper place for difficulty, if they sought one. Col. Ward weut from the room to the passacr and he was followed by the broth- CTS. He said he was unarmed, but if they would lay down their arms he could whip the whole of them or if they would place him on an equal footing, he could whip the whole of them one by one. Caesar told Chamberlayne to give Col. one of his pistols, which he did, and both went out into the yard, the other brothers following. While Standng at a few pacos from each other, La favette came up and remarked to the Colo mel, ".if you spill my brothers blood, will spill, yours," about which time Chamber layne's pistol fired, and immediately Lafay- cite burSted cap at him. The Col. turned to Lafayette and said "Lafayette, you intend to kill" and discharged his pistol at him. The ball struck the pistol of Lafayette and glan- ced into his arm. By this time Albert Ward being close by, and hearing the fuss, came up to the assistance of the Col. when scuffie amongst all hands ensued. The Col. stum- bled and fell, and whilst down he received several wounds from large bowie knife :- and after being stabbed, Chambcrlayne jumped upon him and stamped him several times. After the scutfle Cesar Jones was seen to put up a large bowie knife. Col. Ward said he was dead man. By the as- sistancc of Albert Ward he reached the house, a distance of about 9 or 30 yards, and in few minutes expired. On examination by the Coroner, it appeared that he had re- ceived several wounds from pistols and knives Albert Ward was also badly bruis- ed, not dangerously.
 Fire and Lass Of Lires-On Saturday eve. ming, a fire broke out in stable in East Cam- bridge, belonging to Mr. Frederick Boynton. It contained large quantity of hay and straw, and four horses, three of which only were saved. The fire spread rapidly and soon communicated to large barn and to large brick building, formerly Marcy's Ho- tel. The barn was destroyed and the other building nearly SO.
 A small building used as an hourly coach office, the two story wooden dwelling of MT. Boynton, and two story brick building on the corner of Short street, all owned by MT. Boynton, were destroyed. The last named building was in part occupied by MT. G. w.. Mead, druggist, the rest was vacant.
 After the goods were removed from the druggists shop, and while the upper part of the building was entirely in flames, several pc. sons were standing in the shop, when the roof fell in, carrying with it one of the chim- nies. These fell upon the second floor, which gave way, and the whole mass fell upon the n <ho nScptrnhIph fhnrn escaped, except three. A son of Dr. Pronk, n druggist, was rescued from the flames, with both legs broken and otherwise severely in- l iured. After delay of some minutes, an en- l zine was procured, which extingushed the l fire around the body of one man, whose head and arms were distinctly visible. When
 taken was rscosnized pg that sts of Mr
 burnt off below the knees Yesterday mor-
 ming the body of Mir. Henry Baker, q clerk,
 was found buried beneath the ruins. l Boston Bulletin.
 Since the above was in type, we have as-
 certained that the body of another man. un-
 known, has been taken from the ruins.
 1 Remarkable Phenomenon. The Hampstead, l (Long Island) Inquirer, of the 18th, gives an I almost supernatural narration of the corpse of young lady which was exhumed few days since in that village for re-interment in another spot. The coffin was in a good state of prcservation-and on examination of the corpse, (which yet presented its original shape, there were found to be growing from it's sur face vegetable substance, in the shape of filaments ofgrass, but of a whiish color, with a small bud on the end of each one. These spires of grass had risen from various parts of the face, the forehead, upper lips, and nhnaIYc Covora1 yHls,OGoA nd nr nn in the possession of the gentlemen who in- formed us of this remarkable fact, and who has promised us an inspection of them.
 It is well known that in all dry, gravelly soils like that of Hampstead plains, the body undergoes little or no decomposition even af- ter the lapse of centuries. Under the tower of the church of St. Michael, at Bordeaux, (the famous grape or gravelly country which raises the choice wines,) bodies arc shown that are dried into mummies, and are sever- al hundred years old-their features, expres- sion, &c. still remaining. The same, we be- lieve, exists in a church at Palermo, as des- cribed so graphically in one of N. P. Willis letters. In the above case. however, the flu ids of the body appear to have been preserv- ed, and to have afforded nutriment to the in- visible germs of some of those cryptQgamous plants whose propagation is but little under stood.-N. Y. Star.
 THE LOCO TOGO BANKS AND BANKERS.
 The late failure. of the Commonwealth Bank of Boston, one of the early Pets of the Government, which promised us "better currency" calls for some consideration, par. tlcularly on account of the circumstances connected wi;h this failure. The Evening Post, we see, aware of the effect which this explosion is to have upon the party, attempts to parry this effect, and to cast it upon the