Litchfield enquirer., 1845-09-25

The Englaak HarUests--The London SpectatoTs of the 3Otii tlt says: ~ The fne weather of the week has made a day of dTier summer weathef, ls maturing the healthf6l food of the nation. It is Ilificult. indeed, to penetrate to the exact truth the cloud of false reports-false hopes, exaggera- ted ty the aRficutufaliss, anxious to suppress any notion that bad harvest will give finishing blow to the Corn-1avs; false fears, spread abroad by speculators, anxious to get up good price for their corn. But the sun speaks for itself. The reports from more distant tracts on the continent are gloomy enough, and make it doubly desirable that eur own harvest should not fail. . H
 Leipsic.-An investigation into the recent dis turbances at Leipse is in progress meanwhile the
 local Saxon journals are forbidden to publish any
 further accounts of the events. ministerial re- script was addressed to the censors, most strictly enjoining them to refuse their impyimGtiu to all paragraphs which contain the most distant allusion to religious matters intheir periodicals, which are
 not expressly authorized by their license to treat of religious controversies.
 A Cabinet order of the Electoral Prince Regent of Hesse Cassel has been received at Cassel. by which the formation of German communities, IS prohibited in the whole electorate. The propa- gation of the doctrines of the New Catholics, is forbidden, and the police are to take care that no subscriptions and collections in their favor are set on foot in Hesse Cassel. -Nt
 Fdn,.He is POfu,d. According to the accounts
 from Poland, the distress, amongst the lower cas- ses, must be very great. The poor people pene-
 trate in crowds, into the Province of Intersberg, and fall on the fields of peas and potatoes; the
 peas are immediately devoured raw-the stalks of the potatoes are cut down and boiled, and eaten in tie field. Adetachment of troops has been sent to protect the Prussian frontier. It Is said the fields in Poland so far as the eye can reach, lie
 desert; and, therefore, the distress must increase in the approaching winter @ .a. H hmxyo har freaks Fair forms and perfect limbs are not al-
 ways sent into this world of ours. There IS now living i'd Halseyvile, says the Ithaca Journal,
 most singular and extraordinary child! It is now about years old. Its left arm is about one quar- | ter shorter than if should be. There is no elbow
 nor wrist joint, and but two fingers. On its right side there is no arm, and yet, strange and unac-
 countable it may be. at the very place where the I arm should appear. may be seen two very slender
 fingers. The two fingers upon the leIt arm are al-
 so quite slender, though the child has some use of them. These fingers do not shut up like com- mon hand, but close together like pinchers or
 tongs. In all other respects the child appears as
 perfect other children is healthy, and intelec- l Il speaking. smart. The parents are poor,
 wsIgh is much to be regretted, True, it is most singGlary formed and unfortunate child, and can- l not secure "a living by labor, in any way, unless l Ael educated. ", ;''
 Hartfosd and .Nep York Railroad.--We learn that the surveys of the direct route' from Hartford to New York via Danbury, are comple- ted. They make this route only five miles longer
 than the ssindirect' route via New Haven, Bridge.
 port, Sc. The highest grades are 60 feet to the
 mile. The highest on the shore route, are 40
 feet. The friends of the interior route contend that the ,cay travel and busnesS<will make the 1 road profitable one, even if the through travel should all go by other rontes. The engineers cal culaiors and estimates are not yet finished. -t. ~. r. Jour. of Com. Rev. MT. Failchild has been invited 10 settle ! ouer new society in South Boston. He accepted the invitation. ...a . Mrs Mary Eaton, of Pennington, came to her death in the following manner :-About three
 weeks since, being engaged in doing her usual work she stuck apin in her thumb, and then put , her hands in cold water, which was followed by
 modification, causing her death in about 22 days from the time of her accident. . s Henry c. Creea's Confess;on. states that his first thought of murder was during the 1 Hoosick sleigh ride, and that the circumstance which gave rise to that thought something
 said to him by q girl on that occasion. He de- clines mentioning inc name of the individual, but
 in the most nneauivocal manner exculpstes her from all blame. What she said to him was said in jocose manner, upon which he put altogether a
 wrong construction. From the moment this mo-
 tive seized upon him, he lost sight of every thing
 hut the one fell purpose of attaining, through the
 death of his wife, the hard of the young lady in l question:. He was fully persuaded in his own
 mind that she wonld have married him in the e. vent of his becoming widowcr. .