Litchfield enquirer., 1841-01-14


 double the number of Representatives to which each town is entitled will accordingly be appointed.
 LVcENsE LAw.-The inhabitants of Litchfeld, on Monday last, in town meeting, by of I42 nays to Al yeas decided that they would not for the com
 ing year, as they did the last grant permission to cry freeman to retail liquors; but. by vote of l6s to 7 decided that they UO~Ed grant them that privilege. conditioned that each one first pay into the treasury of the town the sum of ten dollars. d. .. .........
 A vote was passed at the same meeting appropriat- ing the very lavish of SIP be expended in pow der for celebrating the next anniversary O our lnde- pendence. ~~ '-
 A Bye-Law .was passed restraining horses. mules, and sheep from running at large on the highwaysthe ensuing year-the EIrmer two under penalty Of SS cents each the latter under penalty of 12 l2 cents each. The law forbiddng seines and nets to be set or drawn in the Ponds, rivers leading to and from them, was continued in force another year.
 (" 7He slr;ghiag is fne enosgA."-Scarcely had the ink become dry with which we penned this remark last week. and several hours ere he article was print ed, before thaw and rain set n-and cOntiAued un- t not only till the "sleghing spoiled. but the whple bady.Of mou, except the drifts by the sde of fences, had disappeared. The earthis now tTues- day) almost as bare of snow as in midsummer; but what will happen before our paper goes to press is difficult in this chaHgeable to tell. It will be seen by our lhermonetrical table that the past week has been remarkably mild tor the month of Jan uary. .........
 Great Freshei-The thaw and rain which com menced on Wednesday las, and confused through Thursday and Thursday night, has, as we learn from all quarera been very destructive to bridges and mill dams. The large body Of snow upon the ground, to- eether with the rain which fe sweled the streams in many places entirely beyond precedent. The water upon the meadows in the vicinity of ponds is said m be four or five inehes higher than Is known by the " oldest inhab abtants'' in the neighhorhoed On Wa serbury rver in the eastern part Of this town, two bridges are gone. On the ShePaue, at the west part of the town three four bridges also swept away. Several mill dams are also swept off iH var- ous parts of the Al F. Chi'tenden works in New-Preston, the dam and two three buildings very much injured-it thought his loss will De nearly s3OOO The ioss of this town, iR the destruction of bridges aone it is believed will be from to 500 dol lars, besides the loss of individuals.
 Proceeding little farther off, we learn that several of she bridges across the Nousatonic, in New Milford Kent, Cornwall, and Canaan, are gone, or materially injured, as well as great damage done to mill dams and mills. So on the Pennington riveF--we hear of considerable damage-and we learn that Connecti- cut river Saturday and Sunday last higher than i. is known to have been since 1906. We have no, heaEd of any particular dauaGges. however-we shall probably in a few days.
 Thsoaehoaa Duchess county, we learn that the R,o- -hasI, koo., ul. streams great damage is done So also to the north as iar as Albany end sOosb to Philadelphia. The
 au,ense aqueduct acgoss Crossn iver the benefit ofthe New-York water work, ,snd whieh was erected Q. an expense of 30 or 900 dollars s almost entire ly swept away. In New-Jersey, soo, on rho Passaic and other streams great damage has been sustained The papers fIo the city contain aeeounfs of the de- struction by the food in almost every direction. The melting of the snow, the fail of rain, and the ground hcing frozen SC that 1t would absorb but small DOT ton of water, has made the fFeshe, unusually de. suUcsive.
 MassscAusefis.-The second trial fur the choice of Representative 10 Congress in the district re- prssented by Mir. Williams tloco) was held on the 4ih inst. Nathaniel B. Borden twhie! is chosen by handsome majority. The following is the vete com pared with that of November: For Borden, now, 43sO-Wilams 37s0-scatiering 202. In Novembes, Borden 49ol-Wliams 4995-scatierng about TO- Massa chuseus will therefore in the next Congress present II whigs to only loco loco.
 The Legislature of this state assembled at Boston on Wednesday of last week. Daniel P. King was chosen President ot the Senate and George Ash man of Springfield Speaker of the House on the second ballot. .... ,...-.. '..
 1aine-The legislature of this state also convened chosen President by I5 votes to 8 aQsinst him. In the House. no choice for Speaker made the first day, there being two or three whg candidates; hut on the second day tho prominen, whig candidate John Otis) declined. and Josiah s. Little (whig) chnsen-he receiving 95 votes-John T. Paine (loco) 7S and 10 scattering. nearly all loco. The votes for Governor had not been eanvassed but is said the votes fer members of Congress had been. and that Mir. Lowell, tO whom Gov. Fairfield had given the certificate, was chOsen-the votes of whig town ship having been rejected. Mr. Moves will contest the seat.
 The Legislature of Pennsyloania and DelaU0re also came together last week. In the former the whigs have the ascendancy n house. she ocos the other joint ballot we believe the locos have the mao- rity. in the latter. the whole of the lower house and twothirds of the other whigos course the U. s. Senators be chosen must be o the same politics.
 Neu- York-The legislature of New. York conven- ed at Albany last weekOn Tuesday. The parties in she loser house being pretty nearly equay divided. e9ery whg member wasin his seat, snd we believe every loco Peter B. Porter. J. of Niagara county.