Litchfield enquirer., 1840-07-16

Postmaster General Tn ins lie ot Commodore frfTy' published in l82i in giving sketch ot General liar rison said " The dnce ot Fort MeigS, and the $uSe- qnent capture ofihe Army, noy te friy conSidered the most brilliant mud extraordinary crenfs ofthe W0r In referring to the battle of the Thames, MT. Niles said this " l. must be conceded that this victory re- tectrd great honor upon the American Arme. and upon ilc troops by whom it was achieved. The 0c- lion 0nG the movements Uhich preceed t, nforH 0me testimony of the JUDGMENT AND COOL INTRErrrrry OF GEN. HARRISON and i%decd all Me rirnts 0f Me cam Tnign support Mese characteristics; e DISASTERS AT TENDING IT HAVING IN NO INSTANCE BEEN IDruTABLE TO HIM.
 Will these Loco Toro gentlemen who sheer at General Harrisons military qualifications, and say hI e was hn N m o3 V |" S s r General! Have they or MT. Niles walked around the truth
 Andrew J. Davis, Esq of St. Louis proprietor of the St. Louis Argus, died St. Louis the Sh inst of wounds inflicted week previous ln m attack up- on him with budgeon, by Wm. P; P. Darnes.. He 25 years ofnge. native of Northbornugh Mass, and nephew Ot the Hon. John Davis. He was cdll- cated in Massachusetts, and admitted 10 the bar be- fore he took up his residence in Missouri in ls36 He s represented young man ol excellent character and courteous manners.
 Deaih of Dr. B. HarrSon.-We learn from the Cincinnati Republican of Thursday, that Dr. Benja. 1 min Harrison, son of Gen. W H. Harrison, died very evening last The intelligence, as that paper re-. marks will be very great shock to the General as the Doctor was in good health when he started to Fort Megs
 Is it q Forepry?-Messrs. Lynn Boyd, John Tamc. son, Hopkins l.. Turney, Lewis Steenrod and Jesse A. Bynnm, Loco Foco members of Congress, on Fri day, published in the Globe an address to their con- stituens, in the body of which they inserted letter signed with the name of Wm. B. Calhoun (Whie member of Congress from Massn chusetts,) in which Mir. Calhoun is made to say that Hen. Harrison was member of an Abolition society!
 MT. Calhoun immediately published n note in the Nat'nnal ln'eIlgencer charging the said Loco Foe" members of Congress with in'erpolatin@ the words Abolition S'clcty;" and in the last Gohe Mcssrs, Lynn Boyd. John Jameson and Hopkins l.. Turney, acknowledge that they did nerpolate the words in the letter. and admit 'at they are not in the original Is this forgery ?-PhH. U $. Gaz.
 The Nashville tTenn) Whig, paper published in the ne ghhorhood of Gen. Jackson's residence, says We have recently heard it stated, on respectable private authority, that Gen. Jackson, though opposed of course to the election of Gen. Harrison the Pres dency, is far from endorsing the abuse and rueness displayed by portion of the adminisraon party to
 co,sard he IS said 10 especially deprecate, being whouy u"worrdntedb by the conduct of Gen. Harrison during the war-IJ.
 Representatives 10 the ncrt Congress takes place in Louisiana on the 9th of July ensuing. Illinois elects three members on the 3d of August. Vermont five members on the Ist of September Maine eight members September l4lh Georgia nine members Oct 5Ih. Pennsylvania twcntv.echt members. and Ohio nineteen henderson the 18th of October. New York and New Jersey elect in November and in the course of the same month the choice of Presidential Electors is to be effected throughout the United s.a,es.-N. Y. Jour. Com.
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 regret to sny that the "army vermin" is destroy ing thousands of acres of good growth of wheat human eye ever beheld The fiv works some - Where fha indc cd hue ,hrer | weeks ago, now the farmers say it will not be worth harvesting From all sides of us the complaints are general-wherever the worm is, the work of dcsruc. ton is compeie-people are moving down whole | fields for fodder" The above is confirmed by several gentlemen, who have recently travelled through Western Michigan. doubt that immense quantities of growing wheat have been destroyed in that quarter. It fortunately han pens, however that so much wheat was sown last fnl, | not uffect the General result.
 SHOCKING Acc1DENr-We have heard of an event said to have occurred Saturday the line of the ra road a few miles above Schenectady We are unable to give names but the story we heard it. from respectable source is ns follows gentle man from New-Y York, who is temporarily sojonrning in that vicinity, with his gun, when he heard rusiling in some high grass near him. and got q glimpse of what he supposed to he fox; he fired, and 10 his utter horror discovered that he had killed two little children, who lad been at play in the grass. AlJany Bee.
 Suicide.-A Spanish Indian, by the name of Thompson, who was imprisoned in the county jail in this city, about week since, for nhusing his wife, found suspended by the neck in his cell Tues day mornng-life extinct. He attached his bed cord to grnre, then tied the other end around his neck and conrived to hang himself, notwithstanding his feet dragged upon the Aoor.-Hartford Times The Western and Snufhern Ders litaroIv 6ll. ed with renunciations of Van Burenism with the names of the individuals renouncing a(lixed--en, twenty, fifty, and more in some instances in coun- ". Many them give their length for pousing the of Harrison and Reform, and ry good reasons they are. They all acknowledge that they have been deceived and hnmbuGged, but that hereafter they intend 10 devote themselves the cause of their country. We regret that we have no room for some oflhese documents in our columns.
 Hartford Patr'of
 Rose Slug.-The Massachusetts Agricultural So- ciety have offered premium of Sl20 for the most successful method of destroying the slug that nfesis rose bushes. The anlidue must not injure the bush or it's foliage.
 Morrison Ferer in Dfaine-This epidemic is carry ing off :he Van Burenes in Maine, to an alarming extent Fortythree occurred recently in Bald win-all fatal-Isaac Dyer and 42 others having pub licly renounced Van Burenism in that place.
 At the South, instead of calling Van Buren a Northern man with Southern Principles they set him down a Northern man without any princi- pies!
 Gardens-Manknda at the creation were placed in garden planted eastward in Eden,' containing not only what was good for food but 'every tree that is pleasant to the sight-a garden therefore to