Litchfield enquirer., 1841-12-09

5SSG ISis F0'0 Senate H5 io House s' Total si
 One Senator doubtful All the locos but one are in favor ot Repudating the State Debt; of the Wings, the D DemoGrat ree are adverse ,o paying but hold over from last year.-N. H. Pallud.
 Death cfa Member of Congress-The Hon. Hen ry Black, member of Congress, elected in the place of Mir. Ogle, from Somerset and Bedford counties, in Pennsylvania, died recently at his residence in Som- 1 erset, of opoplexy Judge Black was highly esteem- ed for his many virtues.-N. Y. Express. Death of Goo. Buchanan-The Gloucester iMass) Telegraph says: "We learn by a letter received in town last evening, that his ExceIlency Thomas Bu- chanan, Governor of Liberia, died at Bassa, Sept B. l very much amented." He was man of extraord nary ability, and hasgiven great satisfaction Gov ernor of the Colony.
 Senator Fleming-Some anxiety having been ex- pressed for the safety ofths gentleman on account of his long absence from home, gives us pleasure says the Philadelphia Gazette, to learn that his friends have received letters from him, dated Burlington, To. wa, Nov 7, stating that he had just returned from Black River, distance of6O0 miles above St. Louis and tha! he would be home by the lst of December. ". Y. Express.
 Senator THOMAS H. BENTON charges the Govern ment with his mileage every summer to and from St. Louis-amounting to some ST 800 per annum-altho he does not travel the distance more than once in three years, but remains with his family near Wash ingon. Is this the fair thing It hardly seems so to us, especially in one of those who made so much ado about the constructiue journies of John o. Ad ans, while engaged in Diplomatic services abroad.- Mir. Benton, however, has retrenched in par,-he no lonO hov p,,iloo hv h., formerly did.-N. Y. Tribune.
 Mrs. MADISON the venerable rect of President MADISON, has arrived in good heath at Washington, where she is to pass the winter, MARRIED,
 In this town. on the lst inst, by Rev. MT. Payne, MT. Sherman J. Titus, of Washington, to Miss Anne. lia c. Webster, of this place:
 On the list inst: by Rev. MT. Brace. MT Roswell Harrison to Mrs. Sarah Merriman all of this town.
 In WoIco..viIle. Nov, 2oIh, by Rev. Mr. Day, MT. Charles s. Mason 10 Miss Rosetta Bissel.
 In New. Preston. on the 29h nlt. MT Royal G. Hurbu,. of New Milford, to Miss Mary E. Abbott
 In Watervliet, N. Y. Nov. 18th, Mrs. Mary Ann. wife of Rev. William Pitcher, aged 90, formerly of this town
 the 90th year of his agea revolutionary pensioner.
 In Sharon, Mrs Sarah Crocker. aged 9i. relct of
 in Bridgeport. Mr. Elijah Pee, revolutionary pensloner aged 50.
 In Strarford, Mir Samuel w. Lampson, aged 25 In N. Milford, Mrs. Prudence Sandford, aged 79 In Champaign county, Ohio, THOMAS TETON, a revolutionary soldier, aged III years In our last we announced the death of Theodore Hinsdae, Esq of Winsted The following brief obit. uary we copy from the Hartford Observer:
 Mr. Hnsdale was a graduate of Yale College a gentleman of fine talents, of active habits. of pleasing manners. of ardent atta chments, of irreproac life of consistent piey He to Winsed what the late lamented Mayor of Middletown to that city the pillar and hope of many hears-the friend of the poor, and the advocate and patron of all good things. He will be remembered by thousands as the chairman of the Harrison meeting in Hartford, just before the last Presidential election. It was his clear lu. voice alone, which could be heard by that vast multitude which filled the State House yard and the adjacent streets. Who would have thought that that vigorous constitution would sink benea h the power of disease How nffectingy we ad- monshed by his death of the frailty of man, and the uncertainty of life We shall hardly drop tear over his grave before also shall pass away His alic. l ted family have he sympathy of a large circle of friends. Those Christian friends who have shared in the Inequalities of his mansion, will not forget the throne of grace, his mourning widow and father 1 less children. 4