Litchfield enquirer., 1848-02-17
lTEIMS-Original and Selected.

little over for,y years ago, Aaron Burr was brUughtlo trial on charge of treason, for undertaking 10 raise within tbe limits oi the United States the means ot wIeSllng Mexico rom the dominion of Spain. IL was treason 'hen {" dream of the conquest of Mt xicc, but
 t is nOW the night of patriotism to undel- | take it.-LOuisuilIe Jour.
 41- Ne,ospoper Accident -.The official newspaper organ at Paris, says lke Sp4 .ng- l rd Republican recently publish ed the King. q '"ech at the opening of he Cha mber of Dep. atie It was intended to pubIiah IEe speech as 1 igickly as possible after 1t was delayed, but 1 owing to some delay in the royal movements | the speech was issued from the press and 1 widely disseminated before the King had ar | rived at th,- L hamber of Denuiies. The most ludicrons thing Of all was that it was interlar> dra with notices of the great applanse' at this point pr that, of great enthusiasm al the 1 me ltion of such and such topic.
 6rThe Vermont Wa chman and State Ga zerte raises the flag of Hon. John LcLean oi Oni0 fT next President.
 Mrs. Lanman of Norwich. G. widow of the late Judge Lanman, wa burned to death on the llth. by herclnthes taking tire at the grate.- She was about 70 years of age. She left four children by former marriage, of whom Park Benjamin, Esq. N. York, is one. The circle ot her family connexions is large; and among the poor and needy, 10 whom she was true trend. her death will be sincerely mourned.
 Ups AND Dowvs OF A POLITICIAN Louis Jo- seph PapInean, m 1886. was speaker of the Ca nadian Parliament, with majority twenty to one at his back. In tho next year he was an outlaw, with flO0O0 set upon his head The next ne was t ne put to death untrled if found in Canada. In lS47, he iulmin tied once more his anathemas against colonia rule. In ls4o he viii be The successor of Sir Allen NoNab. the hero of Fort Schosser, as Speaker of the hird unlted Parliament of Canada.
 GooD-Liquors have been banished from the Capitol al W ashingto ny Vice President Dal- las. and Mr Speaker Winthrop,
 SALApTN. on his dying bed he commanded that sheet should be bourn before him to his grave on the point of a> specr. and these words proclaimed ,-.These are the glorious spells which Saladin carries with him Ofall his victories and he possessed, nothing now remains but his winding>sheet.'
 'OuR CANvAss LITERALLY WHITENs THE ocEA~.'-Some idea of the magnitude of the commerce of New Orleans may be form. ca rom the fact we are about 10 an- nounce. There were yesterday fifty ai- rlvais m our port. viz {; l3 ships, 8 aarks bIigs, , schooners, 10 steam towboats. and uprIver steamers. The square rigged vessels were mostly from foreign ports. The large nun Der of 2O3O pas> sengers landed on the leyee from the ,e vessels. Much the larger portion of these migrants are from Europe, who design settling in the land of the free. and the asylum for the oppressed of all naiions.' We learn that there are some fifteen ships and number of other ves> sels 'n the river, coming up IN. o. Pic.
 PREyENTIoN OF SUIclDE.-Mr Kinney mem Der ot the Legislature of Mass. is anxious 10 es- taOllsh law tDT the proven of suicide He Proposes that al selfmurderers shall forfeit their bodies for dissection. ?''7