Litchfield enquirer., 1845-07-17


 that the Hon. F. Marshall has been selected by 1he Locofocos to deliver oration upon General Jackson at Lexington. Tom can make fine speech upon the subject, but we doubt very much wheth. CT, in portrature of the old hero's character, he give any thing more forcible than what he gave few years ago. We will furnish him with what ;he then said, so that, if he chooses, he ncor- porate it into his Lexington discourse:
 "He ha, never been, through life, without an an- tagonlst, and he has always been victorious His horses always won when he was racer. He had contest with Dickinson and killed him.. He had fracas with the Bentons, and cleared them out He used up Packenham and the British army at New Orleans, those veterans who had gone through the war of the Peninsula without meeting with an adversary who could wit hstand them for moment. He hung Arbuthnot and Ambrster, and bullied the Senate when called to an account for it. He beat John Quincy Adams in the race for the Presidency and crushed the s Monster Bank' under the heel of his military boo. For the many injuries he has done the country, it would seem that some retrbu- tion were due in the next world, if not in this.- But there the hero has proved too hard for his enemy for he has turned Presbyterian and cheated the devil himself"
 The Washington correspondent of the Now York Journal of Commerce, says our government has of- fcial knowledge that Great Britain has taken mortgage from Mexico of both Upper and Lower California, to secure the payment to her subjects of debts to the amount of S26 ,000,0O0.
 Nt1p Haven and Waterburv Rail Rond-Trof Twining, we understand, has been engaged to make survey of theS route for railroad from this city to Waterbury, and will commence operations with ,out delay.-.N IT. Palladium.
 If this road should be constructed if weuld event. ually be carried through to Wolcottville and Win sted two of the most thriving villages in the state, ,and would better accommodate citizens of Litchfeld, than any other.
 Terrible Eap'osion.-Some years since, m dig ging cellar in the lower part of the village, old bomb she'll was thrown out which had probably been used at the time of the engagement at Fort Staawix. This shell lay about upon the premises where it was undiscovered until the 4th instant i; when, by some strange nfatuation, the project started, by an old man by the name of Williams and Levy Penney, citizens of the village, both drinking men. and at the time, learn, intoxica- ted, to load the bomb, and set it off. They did so, charging it with about two and a half pounds of powder, putting it in in alternate dry and moist layers. It was their intention, they say merely to make large sq,sib of it, not supposing that il would explode. Thus prepared, at about half past nine o'clock in the evening, they placed it at the side of the road the east end of the Canal Bridge, within hundred feet ef Stanwix Hall on one side, and the brick block of stores and shops on the other A slow match was put to it, anu, ;@ni- ted. While this was burning, it was observed by persons who were constantly passing and repassing the bridge, and standing about upon the walk, but they did not know what 1t was. The match went out betore reaching the powder. Williams, then, with most unaccounable fool-hardiness, went di- rectly up to the bomb, and set it off with his own hand. It exploded with terrible force, but by al. most a miracle, Williams escaped with his life, but severely wounded. His face and arm were lac- erated and shockingly burned by the powder. It is feared eye is entirely destroyed but it IS be- lieved that his wounds will not prove fatal The fragments of the exploded bomb were thrown in all directions. Two boys of about 12 to IA years of age, one the son of Winslow Clark, and the other Of Ofeld, laborers, residing here, were struck piece of the metal struck ClaIk's boy on the left side and arm, probably glancing blow; although seriously injured, it is hoped he will survive. An other fragment did more fatal execution. It struck Ofeld's son directly on the abdomen, throwing him to considerable distance, and leaving him sense- less. It was thought that he was fatally wounded he continued during the night to vomit blood, showing severe internal injury. At the time we write Saturday morning,) we learn te is dying Another man received wound on the brow, but we believe not a serious one.
 One fragment was thrown some five or six hun- dred feet, and fell upon the side walk, near Put nams HoteT just at the feet of MT. Benj. Leonard, druggist; another, with still greater force, was thrown through one of the third story windows of Stanwix Hall, into a sleeping apartment. shatter- ing to pieces and carrying away portion of the window casing and striking the ceiling of the room. Persons but moment before had left the room.-
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