Litchfield enquirer., 1852-04-01
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2Sd ot March, and reports that while passing dewn TuckabOe River, Henry Chase, a passenger, was knocked oyer> board by the boom, and drowned. Mir Chase was native of Winsted, Conn.,, and was on his way home when the ac. cident happened. After the failure of efforts to save the young mans life, the captain put back to Tuckahoe, procured several mon and two boats, and went in search of the body--but. after searching the whole day without effect, the schoo- neE put to sea on the following morning.
 I5 The story of the Sea>Serpent, which recently went the rounds of the public, had its origin with wandering Vermonter, whom acknowledges himse if to have been impellvd by desire to hoax the natives
 nFThe Rev. John F. Norton, form. erly of Milton, in this town, and more recently of North Bridgewater, Mass, has accepted call from the congreg&. iional church in Athol. Mass. uOvid F. Johnson, formerly Attor, ney General of Pennsy ylyania. was in Caravajal's army. and was wounded in the late fight at Camargo.
 ~Tte extraordinary success of the famous wheelbaFrow emigrant, Brook mire, has stimulated others to follow il: his track. A man fifty years old, with nothing but a wheelbarrow loaded with provisions and ammunition, passed thro Cincinnati the other day, on his way to the gold diggings.
 4 Nev Slate The Wisconsin Le- glslature have under con sideration a memorial to Congress, praying for the establishment of q new State, composed of tha: part of Wis consin which lies north of the Bath degree of latitude, and that part of Michigan lying bstw cen Lakes Michigan and Superior. tH
 nFGov. Ujhazy met Kossuth at St. Louis. It is said the Hungarians are about to sell their improvement in Iowa and remove to Texas-the climate of the former State being too cold form them. .r..
 Co-The Senate of the United States have laid over until next session the con sideration of the reports respecting the establishment of lines of mail steamers to Africa. China, Ireland. &c.
 EJGeorgc Coffing and P. P. Everts are the whig candidates for Representa- lives in Salisbury. They are honest and capable men, and we shall most heartily rejoice if we are able to chronicle their election next week.
 vSir John Harvey, Lieutenant Go. vernon of Nova Scotia, died on the 22d of March.
 0'We arc grati6ed to notice the nom. ation of the Hon. Thomas 5. Butler, of Norwaik, as the whig candidate for Sem ator in the l2lh District.
 
 4 Lis Nailed Mir. Cough positively denies the charge of the Register, that he promised to speak on the Maine law in Litchield, and then neglected to do so. It is whole cloth falsehood, and will only tend to swell the temperance vote in that part of the State.
 Nav Haven Journal.
 Important dispatches were received at Washington few days since. The Mexican government offers new ar. engagement in regard to the Tehuantepec grant. The Tehuantepec treaty is dead.
 Mfr. Thrasher, confined at Centa with the other Cnban prisoners, when told he was pardoned. refused to be pardoned, and would only accept of liberty as a right. A few days afterwards, he re- ceiyed a letter stating that he was flee without pardon and without condition, save that he must not return 10 Cuba.
 Professor Olmsted Of Yale College has in preparation a treatise on the Auraro Borealis. to which for many years he has paid particular intention, and in re gard to which he holds an original the. ory. His treatise is to be published by the Smithsonian Institute.
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