Litchfield enquirer., 1853-12-15

Denlson Crnns. og FIilphcookrriIls. ir lhis county. haaeolA l5 pairs of Chiia. gongs lately. at 9fb apHif. Their avsrs ags weight was aeteu and half poundr each.
 The Albnny Argus of Fi iday. says that Ex- Governor Hunt who'll brrn serious. y i'll. is now improving tn health. His illness was hernia and inflammation of the howels.
 The cars 0n the N6agat6ek Rail,osd 70 through to Wjnsled-S wishout ehanO- ihf. or cenfss ffeig6t issn0n .tsIEss fos the upper part of the road.
 Joel Haywood of Ocean. contesss the right of Rodman N. Price. Governor elect Eof New JeTspy. on the ground that llehad not been resident of lhs Stale for seven years. the time feauiied by law. ..5,s
 Information is said 10 have been re ceNed in New o .leans that santa Anna would. on tie 2tl inst, assume the title of Impelial Majesty ,.ss
 The steamer Humboldt went ashore near Halifax last week. and she yill pros bably pFovea total loss. Her passengers were landed in safeiy, and part of her cargo will be saved.
 Sir George Gore. en route for Texas on a bunting excursion. 3was robbed be- tween Alton and Springfield, Ill. of his portinanteal. containing < dfaftons New York fof 5000, and $500 in gold. He lelegraphed at once 10 New York and stopped the payment of the draft.
 Twenty eight vessels that arrived al, the port of New Yotk in November. had cholera on board. They btougM l3. 762 passengers, of which number li4i d,ed of cholera, and between and 5000 more were sick. Most of these vessels were large first class ships that are supposed to have superior accommodations. h one of the largest l % died out of 022 passengers--a rate of mortality grester than that of the New Oileans yellow fever.
 At the time tho officers were searching the house of Squires. the New Hump shire railroad robber, after his recent es. cape. he was securely hid in n straw bed beneath feather bed. on which Lis wife was lying. The modesly of the officers prevented chem from requiring Mrs. s. to ari.e, aud so they went away without securing their prize.
 The small pox is prevailing 10 a great exlcntat the Auburn State Prison. Forty convic,s were i'll with the disease on Wed, nesday. o. Dickinson and Cobb it ls said will be Hard candidates Tor President and Vice President in 1856 ,ss ...s
 Messrs. Flagg & Bald win. of Milford, employ nearly 400 hands in the manu. facture of straw goods of all kinds. The New Haven editors have been eat. ing oysters. etc. and looking at 800 pret- ty girls in a straw brading establishment in Milford.
 Father Gayazzi is about 10 deliver bis course of lectures in Washington.
 The store keys of Messrs. Holcomb & I Lyon. John Hopkins. J. Bailics, and c. ' w. UIi6steac. in prtdgepuIS, were stUirr
 on Tuesday evering.
 FaosrY. Mrs. Frost, who ediis pa l per down in Ohio, excused the absence of editorial in late number of her paper, saying that "a slighs Frost occurred al our place on Wednesday last. z | There were nine deaths of cholera in the city of New Yo,k. last week. \ 1 .tREroRM. The New Yo,k publish a long list of remoyals ard appointments of employees in the New York Custom House, and more changes are constantly being made. x I A company of thirty men recently left Gardiners Me. for Georgia. having been employed at wages ranging ffom 2S ,o 30 dollars per month each, 10 cut hard pine in the Southern part of Georgia.
 The employer is Georgian who finds [ free labor cheapest. Among the reports from Washington is one stating that oDGciai advices render ] it very certain that Great Britain will soon declare war against Russia ]! A committee of fifsy-six has bsen raised at Philadelphi, to prepare an address te the printers and li,erati on the subject ol a monument 10 the memory of Bsnjsmin Franklin. A runaway negro at Naichcz stabbed . whine man to the heart. who attempt ed to arrest him, and afterwa.ds threw himself among tho machinery cf mill, end was crushed 10 pieces.
 The first Baptist Socieiy of Hartford 1 has raised more than S2O. 900 10 build l | new church. It will be one of the Enesl l iu iie cisy, which has already nntnbel l pf beautiful church ediices. II <