Litchfield enquirer., 1841-06-10


 with ouslm of economy, and will not con- vene the Legislature 10 provide for repre- sentative at the coming extra session of Con- gress-because it would put the State 10 great expense. Such is LOcOtoc0ism.
 .e-. ~. r. Express.
 From tke Boston Daily Mail, of June 2d.
 ARRIVAL OF THE AcADIA-FIFTEEN DAYS LATER.
 No certain Nelvs of fhe President Steamship Reports that the aCreck had been Seen.-The British Royal Mail Steamship Acadia, ar- rived at the Cunard wharf last night about one o'clock ,and took us all somewhat by sur- prise.
 She has proved herself worthy of her fame having made the passage in thirteen days and half. She left Liverpool on the 18th, and has had good weather most of the time having seen only one iceberg.
 The Steamship President had not Grrired, and no certain tidings had been obtained from her. Every breeze from the broad Atlantic to the anxious watchers, gave signs of woe that all was lost. Every hope was abandon ed to despair.
 LOSS OF THE WILLIAM BROWN. z
 Dreadful ShipWreck.-HAvRE, May 1O.- The Louis Philippe, New York packet shiI has this moment arrived. Information hay ing reached the town that some shipwrecke 4, seamen were on board, the report becami general that they belonged to the President and the excitement was beyond all descrip ton. On the arrival in dock, however, ,| strong body of the gendarmerie were in wait ing, and immediately took into custody tn, mate and eight of the crew of the ship Will liam Brown, bound from Liverpool to Phila delphia, which was sunk by an iceberg iiI the latter part of the last month. It appear that when the vessel struck, thirty three pas sengers, the mate, and eight of the crew tool to the long boat the captain, three Ot ih crew and eleven passengers, took to the jolI boat all the rest sunk with the vessel. Tn boats parted in the night. Some days atte the mate and crew determined, Gas they say in order to tighten the boat, to throw sevei teen of the passengers overheard, whics they accomplished, and some of the moIs horrid and revolting scenes took place. Some clung to the boat, praying fer mercy but their hands were cut of, and they weir pushed into the deep. Fifteen ladies ant two men remained in the boat. One hour q t fer this massacre, the Crescent fell in with tfht boat, and saved the survivors of this horr !, deed. The passengers remained on boa ift the Crescent; the crew arrived in the Vil de Lyon. They are now under cxaminatidPI tuO NOuSubs ICoutb | will not fail to communicate to you; but yCPu may rely on what have already stated.7 The jolly boat has not been heard of.
 HAvRE, May l3.
 Further Charlottesville American shih Crescent, Capt. Ball, arrived here yesterday evening with the remainder of the passea F gers of the William Brown who were saved in the long boat. The arrival of this vesst has confirmed all the horrible details given of the dreadful scene which took place dU- ring the night of ,hc 2Olh and the 21st ut April. Of tie l6 passengers who wer" thrown into the sea, fourteen were men an'f two women of the seventeen saved l5 are women and two are meR. One of these mtn was seized for the purpose of being thrown overheard by the crew of the boat. He eri- ed oat to the mate to save him, and not tei4r him from his wife. The mate told the mefa sible 10 help it. He fell into the bottom &f the boat and was saved. A boy 12 years 0 d was thrown overheard. He caught hold iot :he boat, and favored by the darkness of Il bG night, crouchcd under the bows and was s h. we'd. All the women saved Rve yORNg. elk cept the mother of Scotch family frO& VI Dumfreshire, who, with her five daughteH rs and servant girl, was saved her name is Edgar. Her husband and son are settled il Germantown near Philadelphia. A you ht woman with her infant at the breast succeed d cd in getting into the boat with her husba1z d they are amongst the survivors. One fan n ly of the name of Leyden (sixteen in ] sunk with the vessel another naH,ed Coz P father, mother, and five children; s0nk Ia the same time; the little boy who g thrown from the boat was one Oi that faEnrlI y He had not a soul left belonging to him. r. They were also from Col. Stewards propert y
 A Mrs. Anderson, with three children, W h' were going to join her husband, medicy "a gentleman settled at Cincinnati. sunk VII ti the ship. Miss Anderson and a Miss Brat d ley were thrown into the sen from the lo ni boat. The tales which the survivors rels ts are piteous, horrifying. The crew and pk sengers were examined by the British a nl American Consuls this morning, and the m precision is that the dreadful act of throwivn perious necessity but it Is 10 be hoped tltnal the two Consuls will give publicity to he examination. in order that the public mi miEhd may be satisfied on this point.
 Election to Congress.-Genernl Beeson, the Nocc candidate for Congress in the Faye,te and Gre tene districts, Penn- has been elected to supply the vadan cy caused by Mir. Hooks deah His majority eSveI Stewart. twhig,) IS about 1000
 PRoAlFIc.-Ths Hartford Courier states that the wife of Mir. Elijah Brown of Freston in this stae re- gently gave birth to YHREE boys-being Mrs. E , second edition of boys of three at time. The frst edition was issued abou. three years since and lettered with the names Of Elijah, Elias and Elsl -.