Litchfield enquirer., 1848-08-03
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are now permitted to pass the Russian iron ,ierS.
 %SOund beams, made from mulberry trees, have beeL found in the ruins of Nin> eveh, where they are supposed to have re~ mained since seven hundred years before Christ
 nFThe celebrated RIooke farm. the seat of phalanx of Associatonists, at West Roxhury, Mass, has passed into the hands of the Sheriff.
 GFOut of the two hundred and nine men who started from New Orleans under the command of Cas- jus M. Clay, for Mexico, but five have returned to their na> tive or adopted country. -e-
 The State of Georgia, in conjunction with the City Council Of Augusta, is about to erect a monument at Augusta, in honor of the memory of Lyman Hall and George Walton, two of the Signers of the Declara- ton of Independence. Mr. Itall was a native of Connecticut, and Mr. Walton of Virginia.
 %The various libraries connected with Harvard University, contain at present abou, S2,OOO volumes, besides large aud very valuable collection of unbound tracts. maps, plans, &c.
 GTThere are now five expeditions afuai, bearing five hundred ema ncipa,ed emierants to Liberia. An equal number anxiously await the ability of the Society to send them. --
 n%The N. Y. True Sun says that our Volunteers have re,ursed from Mexico, covered with glory-and with but very lit> tie else.
 ~Wisconsin extends from Lake Michigan to the Lake of the Woods-a distance of 1000 miles. Dividing this whole territory into two equal parts. each p'rt would be as large as the great State of New York.
 DsA London corresponden, of the Ma. lional Inlelligencer says" The House of Lords has had another disagreeable duty to perform in ordering Lord Ashbur,on into the custody of the Sergeant. att Arms, a true hill having been found against his Lordship for forgery. Lord A. is a Scot tish peer"
 nrThe Mining Journal states that Sir James Anderson, who has spent fortune In experiments. has at length succeeded in perfecling locomotive carriage for com mon turnpike roads.
 Interesting 10 Wido,os Judge Lewis of Penn., has decided the condition in a mans will that his widow shall forfeit his estate in case of second marriage, 10 be void. The principles Of morality, the policy of the mas lion, the doctrines of the comm,n law of God, he says: unite in ,condemuing such restraint
 Col Binck .for Toylor.-Col. Black, of Pittsburgh, has been nominated for Con- sress by the loco focos. The N. o. Bulle- tin says he 'ssed through the city, avowed himself for Taylor, and as he goes, SO go nine out of ten efhis Rrgmens.
 OvERRuN WITH RATS Blackwell IsI- and, N. Y Is overrun with millions of rats, whose burrows extend under the whole place They eat up every kernel of corn that is planted, and no e1ecinal means can be de- vised for their tx ermiaation. At present, cabages und other vegetables they will not eat, are ihe only ones which can be grown on the island.
 9G-No Sunday mail is at present carried in any part of New England, and a very large number of such mails have been disconiinu- ed of late in other states. embracing lines amounting to upwards of SSU,ooo miles The saving of expense to the department, is over $eo,ooo.- Springfield Rep.
 Q1-A few days since some clergymen called at Girard College, and W ere informed that they could not enter the buildings. Being clergy men the letter of Mir. Girard's will required them to retire beyond the outer walls of the institution
 95-Dr Scudder writes :hsf the cholera is making dreadful ravsges in Madras. He has been successful in saving many lives by the use of opium and calomel.
 0Je Father Mathew recently stated in speech at Cork, that not single tee-totalcr in all Ireland is known 10 have died of the famine or fever.
 n5-over 100000 persons have died in Rus sia of the cholera. within the past year It is now raging in Constantinople.
 Oc-Noble Towner, Esq. American Consul to Bermuda, arrived in New York few days ago.
 0o-Lamartine was io leave Paris for the U niied States on or about the 26th ult-.N Fl SuR. 7.el-
 0o-Maria Monk, whose six months ;n convent created such a stir some years since