Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-09-05

4 e~-'s~s. ~ WIN U11u C1uAlNcU the SUSPICIOUS
vessel which has been lowering about our
coast. The Steamboat CLEOPATRA. which ar.
rived yesterday morning from New.Hayen,
brought the intelligence.
The schooner was captured in Gardeners
Bay, and made no resistance. "A nrize crew
was puton board Of her, and she was taken
into New London, whence, we undersiand.
she will be brought to this port. She proves
TO be the Spanish schr. LAmistad, alluded
| to yesterday, which on her voyage from Ha-
Vana to Neuvitas, was seized by the slaves,
who murdered the greater part Of the white
men on board. Report says that the owner
of the slaves, Mr.. Carrias, managed to Sc.
crete himself during the massacre, and that
when day or two afterwards he was COM
PEELED to show himself, the negroes spared
his life, as they also did that of two of the
vessel. ,9,s!a7a. 2 ID - =
The schooner and all found on boardtof
her will, no doubt, be Immediately given up
70 tins, Spanish Consul; and we do hope, we
snail near OF no nsawkish abolition croaking
on this head.-N Y. Courier. 4 III
! A new cotton factory is in PROGRESS of
erection al Trenton, in which 400 spindlcs
will be drives by water power.
NorWegiGns. body Of emigrants; sixty
in number, from this remote corner Of Eu-
| rope. passed through this city to-day. An.
intelligent person speaking our language.
accompanied them. He says they are on
their way to Illinois, where they intend to
settle. on farms, many ofthem having means
sufficient to dose.
The people speak the Danish as well as
their own language, and appear robust and
healthy. They came by the way of Boston,
and were conveyed from that point to this
place Tor $5 each, and tile same price from.
this 70 Chieago-cheap enough. e
specimen OF coarse but wholesome
bread, hard rs Pharaoh's heart, made of rye
and oats, was presented to as by the gentle
man accompanying them, which appears to.
oe OF nutritious and healthy kind, and we'll
adapted to those subject to dyspepsia.
several more detaehments from the same
country are expected - Buffalo ADJ.
Fridge ocer tie Mississippi Mr.. Charles Elicit,
Ciwl Engineer, now in this city, and has consulted
with some OF our citizens who feel an interest in see
E. has travelled extensively in Europe, and devoted
many years TO the business Of engineering and the
plans and construcliea Of bridges especially The rire
On the Khlne and in other portions If Europe. Mr.
Eiiet has t9rnished the models and plans for several
buildings OF this characterin Ms country He deems,
entlfeIy Practicable 70 throw one Of these wire
estimates the expense at much less than we had any
supposit,on q could possibly he done for. He says
that such bridge may be erected in such manner
as not to lnterpose tho slightest Obstruction the
vgation for the largest class Of boats at the highest
sages q water e subject somewhat noys d
and the confident manner in which he speaks Of the
prac.lcabity Of the scheme it deserves hrr serious
nan,ed il would he one Of the most profitable stock
companies that could be forined-S Louis RePub
FIame', General Xashingfons Slare--1t is no: gen.
eraly known that the only surviving slave Of General
Washington is now living IN The city Of MddletoxD,
in this State. He is according to his own account
nearly 100 wears old Re draws pension from the
government Tor his services in the revolutionary war;.
and manufactures toy drums thr his support He has
white wife and one child. His hair is white with.
nge, and hangs matted together in masses over his
fie retains perfect recollection oFls massa and
mlssus Washington" and has several rcmembranres
Of them, among which is lock Of General Washing
tom hair He converses freely in three or four differ
ent langnages-Athe French, Spanish and Germap--
besides his native African tongue Hartford Reuie'D
POLITICS OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON, Ang. %
The Calhoun men in this State are well satisfied
with the almost equal division Of parties in the next
tho balance Of power and they might nad they can
drive bargain, according 70 the Importance Of the
hold they have. Mr. Calhoun, am certain, is very
glad 10 see Mr.. Van Buren, not too strong. He means
Treasury NTH t1e specie clause. All his friends
q a. least FL with when S1ns hs
and 10 Bring do,cR New York. and the North They
say it viii SO upset Trade with the North that South
eon.end end ihas dsorlersd Exchanges are Sene. 10
the South for they not only compel say they, impOr
lations in Southern Ports but compel the removal Of
Northern manufacturers Southwark, alleging, that
when the Planter cannot buy Northern goods without
paying ten or twenty per cent additional Exchange
more than he would pay for goods manufactured at
ton jcnnies, md machinery, and make Lowels Pat
ters0ns, and Walhams there. @W
The specie clause Of the Sub Treasury i now at
that the Tariff and Internal improvements were in
1876 and the destruction Of the Tariff Of Internal
improvements, in 1929. Thespecie clause We now
the emporium &c. &C., and 70 bring il up to- and be-
yond New York. The Calhoun men ore wild about
it Dract Taxes are also another project with many
There is nothing which 50 surprises me among
Southern educated men as the theories they have,
which they never correct, as they want the practice
philosophers but great many ct them want the first
OF all requisites for good merchant pgaceai COM
mon sense after they got out Of college they were
tlInbled for two three years among the Cotton
amo1e your mo!asses hogsheadsi N Brooklyn -haying
little heavy work IN the counting room they would
are ever full Of theosies such this now The specie
clause in which, you and l. and every Northern bora
man KNOWS, tnougn SnIerers rs we MI snoutu ne,
they would be the greatest sufferers Their idea ola
ruinous Exchange IN the Union being q beHefitto
THEM is so bnrlesque an idea. that really cannot
| make up sober face 10 reason with i. and avoid
the topic not 10 insult man by laughing At HIM
to his facs.-N Y. EEpress. sts ~ s.si -
| Disfessiag.- 1--WE learn from Cicero Phelps, Esq.
Of Poqnonock, that fatal and distressing accident
occurred at he cotton factory o soper and Ciarkn
that place last Monday afternoon. young lady,
Mics Hannah Emo l4years old, dnHghterOf Mr.. Jes-
Ese Emo, Of Shpsbury. employed in the facto-
~, went into the wheel room, with another young a.