Litchfield enquirer., 1845-08-07

.lferico.-The EOllOwingOn SuhjectOfOurrc. lations with Mexico is from the Washington Union of Friday.
 "Letters have also been received in Wash. ington from the capital, we'll as from Vera Cruz. We understand that the indications which they con- vcy are moi all decisive, but are, on the contrary, contradictory in heri.npOrt The correspondence from the capital seems to point to peace. The let ters from the coast incline more to war. A sign which Is less favorable to peace, IS that Almonte, with all his preudces against us has just been ap- pointed Secretary of War. Another sign, of a less unirendly character, IS, that the new Congress has been convened Several reasons are assigned for 1 its meeting. The most prominent of these relates to the domestic organization of Mexico. The first is for the consideration of various internal mp ments affecting the tariff, &c.; the second is, to place before them the proceedings taken by the government on the resolutions concerning Texass passed at the last session. It IS only when they come to the second reason, that they allude in distant manner the course which it may become Conpress to p,1rs,1e in consequence of the annexa- lion of Texas. This consideration isthus, compar- atively speaking, thrown into the bacS ground ot Mexican policy.' s5.nses,. {, .... 4,.--... Death from Political Prescription !-AmonS the cases of cruelty under the proscrptive princi pie of removals trom office for the sake of differ ence in political opinion, the following is mention- ed by the Washington correspondent of the Tri- bune: ..g-..-s s-t " MT. James, whose case have before referred to, died on Tuesday and was buried yesterday.- He was prominent member of the Episcopal church, good man, a worthy citizen, and has left a widow and six children penniless, but trust not friendless. He had been for five and twenty years Clerk in the Registers office, and not whisper 1 of complaint was ever breathed against him. MT. Gillett, with the appreciation of the President, re-
 moved this man from office. Unqualified for any other employment, he demonstrated against the act, represented the helpless condition ot his family, 1 went home, and fell sick A congesive fever came on, and this, aggravated by his distress of 1 mind, terminated in brain fever, which resulted i in i;s death. In this case against whom have the widows curse, and the orphans cry gone up 10 heaven" .'3' ] Distressing Fre-About one o'clock on Mon- day morning last, the dwelling house of MT. Isaac c Smith, who lives on the Middletown Turnpike, about miles from this village, was burnt to the ] ground The flames had made such rapid progress pravious to discovery, that the family barely esca
 ped from threatened destruction with their lives. what few clothes they gathered in their fright, and ! two feather beds-everything else was destroyed.
 WnterJwy .Americon, Aug. 4h. ] MR. P. K. K.klLBoURN.-Some kl two or three weeks since we received information, we supposed from reliable source, that Mr. Kibourn, our late asSo- ciae editor, irdustr iously circulating reports calculated to nure paper-as for instance, that 1t was about to become partisan in its character, Tn contempt of pledges heretofore made 10 the public Under the belief that these reports were true, inserted several paragraphs in our paper of week before last, regarding Mr. Ks former connection with the paper, but we have since become satis faAt that he has said, we cheerfuly retract whatever may have appeared in our columns derogatory to Mir. K. his literary reputation, regrettlng that we should have been betrayed into any expression calculated to wound his feelings or to affect his standing as writer, by reports which, though then believed, it now seems had no foundation in 1 truth. We have none other than good wishes for late associate, and shall rejoice to hear of his succeeding in whatever enterprise he may under ! take.- Columbian.
 l Statistics of Connecticut The Legislature of 1 Connecticut at its recent session, provided by law similar to that adopted in this State. last wp
 ter, for taking the statistics of the various branch es of industry in the State. The results of the en- terprse in the two States will doubtless exhibit greater variety of industrial pursuits, and Tn pro- portion to their population, greater amount of wealth accrung from them, than can be exhibited by any other two States in the Union. We should like to the statistics of Virginia or South Caro. lima side by side with either of them.
 Springfield Gazette.
 Rev. J. G. Fee proposes Convention in Ken lucky, to take measures to bring about by peacea 5le and constitutional means the emancipation of that State from Slavery, and Cassus M. Clay sug- gests, that it be held on the 4th of July, 1546.- '' In the mean tlne," says Mir. Clay, "we advise the publication of paper in Louisville, to be owned and conducted exclusively by non-slaye- holding and laboring men," .s.. .M4RRLED, .f- V l In this town, on the Sd inst, by Rev. Mir Dixon. Mir. Samuel Sherwood of Manchester, to Mrs Sarah