Litchfield enquirer., 1842-01-13

SsAN0 SONAAy DeAnA " tVlO0EV WnlCn WA, bed 6fa large amour, of .> of Mr. Wnr through the agene, inc thieye SSYileT'. lawyer of New.York, Nfr. WiIey $10DO0 in gold, and A estoreS receiv;nv 8 ,"cr cent. of the aTnountl, bro' or Soa aO8 An action was afterwards ..s ssLt opainst Mr. W, fos the part be. took in l.
 and his tl,;al took place iTi New York last week. It was clalmed Dy ine District Attorney that it was the duty O1 me defendant to have arrested the ToO6cr al once, and that his position us counScl gave him no protection. In behalf of the dtteh- dant, it was claimed that his privileges as member of the bar, gave him a right to act as he did, and that his character for S5 years, was irreproachable in every respect. The jury found him guilty, but recommend cd him to the mercy of the court.
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 Domestic A AD1ictiGn-Rarely have we heard
 of more severe misfortune than has fnllen upon the family of our old and esteemed
 triend, Manuel Henshaw, of Hamburg. In letter from him communicating to us the death of his son, youth IA years of age, who died on the llth inst. of canker rash, or the worst form of scarlet fever, he details a truly painful story of domestic trials. On
 his return home from Silver Creek-where he had been attending 10 his duties of col- lector of that port-on the 9th inst, he found
 nine of his ten children prostrate with the same disease-all having been violently att tackled within 48 hours; and on the follow.
 ing day the other remaining child was iIl ot the same complaint-then making ten chil.
 dren all seriously ill ut the same time. The disease was so alarming that his neighbors dared not render him any assistance, and im- aginaiion can only describe the sllfferings of the anxious father, thus situated for l2 days and nights, during which not us many hours slumber was obtained. At the date of MT. Henshuw's letter, three of the children re- mained in precarious situation, aud the others were rapidly recovering. t.t .
 .-.. ,. Bnfalo Adsertiser.
 Dreadful Murder.-We are again called upon to record another horrid murder, per petrated in our city on Saturday last-that
 of woman being murdered by her hus-
 band the facts are these A man named l Thomas Toppen, an Irishman by birth, be-
 ing at home at his lodgings, No. 80 Orange 1 street. on Saturday morning, on his wife Elizabeth attempting to pass from the room 1 to the pump to get a pail of water. she: Was { forbidden to gU out by her husband, who percmptorily refused 10 let her go for it.- Inc woman having occasion for some wa 1 ter for domestic purposes, urged him toflct her 20, which led to some angry words when the inhuman wretch seized Q chaii and literally broke it to pieces over heI head and body. Not content with this bru- tai attack, he took up broom and beat hel
 with it until the bundle was split into several pieces, all of which he then gathered up and with the splinters stabbcd her ino several
 parts of her breast and body The wretch ed woman for moment then escaped from
 his grasp and from the injuries received and threw herself on the bed; but the inhu. man mon etOr. WhnSo Eondiols PoroSiUII " as not yet satiatcd, drew her from it and in. flicted several blows on the head and other parts of her body with shoemaker's ham. mer. and not yet content, got Q knife and fork and inflicted other Stabs on her person
 The woman then at length again got away from him and threw herself on the bed, when the wretch laid down on the floor to avail
 the arrival of his little son, Q boy about l: years of age, whose throat he intended tc cut as soon as he came in. During the whole of this horrible tragedy, woman named Kelly was lying in a very low state m tho room and was an eyewitness of the
 brutal cOnduct--and about 6 o'clock, find ing that the wretched woman had ceased to breathe, gave the alarm, and Justice Matsell
 aided by two watchmen, took the monster into custody and he was fully committed to prisonA-M r. Erress. ..' .,... . Maryland true to her faih-Wc have pleas ure m stating that motion, made on Friday last in the House of Delegates of Maryland, for leave to bring in bin to repeal the law imposing tax to raise money to pay the interest on the State debt, promptly met with decided opposition, and the leave was refused by vote of2l yeas to B nays. Of the ayes, several voted, it is said, only on principle of courtesy, upon which ordiiiari- " leave IS granted to any member, when asked, to introduce any bill without rcfer- ence to its contents.-National I.teU. !, @,
 .r., F. WASHINGTON, Jan. l, 1s42 d. NEW YEARS DAY AT WASHINGTON.
 Inc day IS here propitious onc,--as fair and mild as if it were the middle of Spring, instead of the middle of Winter. Not a cloud has been seen in the sky, and from mornlng till evening the atmosphere has been genial enough to make one comforta- Die without the bundling and dressing so olten necessary at this season of the year.
 At the White House " Captain Tyler was "headed" by an immense throng of People, who made their entrance at 12 o'clock, and their exit not moment before 3. It was the greatest besieging, all in all, that re- member ever to have seen for many long day.-a rush without cessation in and out. sometimes at the door, and sometimes, when the crowd pressed too hard here, in and out of the windows on both sides of the man. sion. Men, women and children were in at- tendances-all from extreme, old age, to the infant in its nurse's arms The characters of these in attendance seemed as various az their ages aud staturcs. ','" 'S '.