Litchfield enquirer., 1846-04-30
r,.reir,rrEEpNENS lTEAS,

- -, .yClasSeS, ana 10 nave IS"Chcu
feN"oe ions of the country. A party |
"lo'1 5nsylvania, excellen,ly well
ON passed through our city ycstef-
lo'pTniepcndence. Wehear DISMAL!
~ hieS having started from various
6f Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky
PARTY OF English gentlemen n re now
hr city preparing for tramp in the
6mlains and through the countries to
hpaciiic. .t#
! The emigration promises 10 be very
large one, and the cry is still they
one"
Since writing The above, n party OF
Dung gentlemen arrived from Kentucky.
,ound 10 Cailiiorna. We are rejoiced to
zee that men of sterling worth are thus
casting their fortunes in Il land deStlned
% fill no insignificant portion "f the
worlds hiStorv.-N Louis ReUille 5th In
aam.
llILEAGE IN PRosPEcr.- The sailing
distance from New York 10 the Columbia
river, Oregon, is only about $4,000 miles.
The mileage ofthe Oregon member" will
be an item-about $4,000, and the con-
struclive pay for the Senators the same
amount-Dolar Courier.
;rE-Tho Richmond Wing says, from
first to last, from the alpha to the omega
Of this Oregon dispute, Mr.. Polk has
taught this lesson which may yet need
10 be enforced by the scorpion lash of
WAY, never to elevate an inferior mnn to
post of such transcendant importance
us The President of the United States.
JcEsEY PRIsoN SHIP.-SOmc workmcn
"'h1::,e employed in eHcavating at the Nh
w Yard discovered the ribs aud keel Of
IN cid ship deeply imbcdded in mud
md sand. It is supposed 10 be the
Jersey Prison Ship, that dreadful prison
OF rather grave where Americans were
Juricd alive by thousands during the
revolutionary war. ...f
MoRMoNs.--A letter from Warsaw, Hill
nois, dated March Goth, says-"Thc NOR
mon expedition is encamped about go
miles up Des Moines. Many empty wag-
ons have returned to NauvoO. Rockwell.
Jhc assassin, and Redding, have returned
vita the nvowed intention OF numbering
somebody.
G5'A family were poisoned at Peters
burgll, Huntingdon county, Pa, by par.
iaking Of apple butter which had been
kept in glazed crooks. One of the fam.
lily, Il young man, had died, and all the
rest who partook Uf it, were in critical
ituation.
CAUrIoN.--A young man named No
Die got asleep in church, at Cleveland,
and fell out of the window and was kill
cd.
ToERTBLE..-We see by an account in
one Of our exchanges, that the body of
Miss. Jane Cunningham, o most bcauti-
al young lady, seventeen years of age,
va, found lately on the prairie, back of
'hicugo. She was TO have been married
&c next day, but went in tho aftern Don
% invite her sister tn ho hor bridesmaid,
md in returning, was overtaken by
1noW-storm, and frozen TO death. 81,
DANIT1Es IN THE MOBILE MARKET. Ripe
1lrawberrics were in market on Saturday
be 2d inst. New Irish potatoes were al
. IN market.
MESSENGER KILLEp.-A carrier pigeon
vas shot on Friday in Say brook. by lad |
named Samuel Beckman. On the leg of
he pigeon, was neatly sewed small slip
+ puper, continuing tho following me-
cora Adum, apparently in the hand
rritiug Of a lady
"Friday, 8 A. M. T.. came las, night.
nut not word how, why, or wherefore"
WHY is the Ohio river like an unfor-
mate drunkard? Because he takes in so
inch 'Monongahela' that he passes along
jFAelng,' re ccivcs a Licking at Cincin-
IT, anu fats at Louisville" '...
FJGidcon Welcs, Esq, of Hartford,
); been confirmed by the Senate, as
-Iljef Of the Naval Bure III of Provision
al clothing. Tho vote on the question
i confirmation, Uas tie, and was deci.
led by the casting vote Of tho Vice Pres
lent. ...
TnE Cost OF WAR.--The enormous sum
I ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF
COLLARS Won.d not cover tho inevta.
ic first cost" of war with England.
) tha. part OF Oregon lying between 40
nd 81 40 worth OO,000OO0, in money?
'arlh the thousandlh part of the prec.
1us blood that would be shed in such a
.ontest! Let the cost of such a war be
ounted before we plunge headlong into
..--Atbany Citizen.
A SINGULAR CHAnAcTER.--Edwar
i,zgerland, n poor fellow with the ''hor-
Jrs" upon him was arrested in New Or
cans on the Goth. ult., charged with lar
ocny. In his hat was found human
!&n!
This the accused accounted for by sta
ng that it was the skull of his brother,
no was killed at the taking of the Ala.
no, and that he always carried it about
With him us remembrancer. lie was Ia.
II care Of
THE DEAD ALIvE.-The Baltimore Re.
rublican says that n rumor prevailed in
hat city a day or two ago, 10 the effect
nat a sexton of one Of the churches hav.
ing occasion to go into " the vault of his
rave yard, was attracted BY a noise in
me of the collins, containing the body of
re wife of one OF our cit liens, which he