Litchfield enquirer., 1853-04-07

1 try. The Fair yacht was on shore Wlth loss of rudder several merchant ships are dismasted, and three foreigners were blown over and sunk at their anchors. The trees in the palace garden, and unicorn, and part of the roof of the palace, the roof oi lhe Generals house. and that of the Pro. tesiant church, have been blown oil, and all considerably damaged.' ""
 NIcARAGUA.-A dispatch from Washing ton 10 the New York Daily Tribune states that Louis Napoleon is about 10 send a naval force to San Juan de Nicaragua to demand f;om the Municipal Authorities there satisfaction for fines levied by them upon French subjects, for their refusal to comply with some of the demands of the authorities of that place. The French Government, before deciding upon this course, made demand upon the British Governmen:, but that Government. replied that il had no responsibility in the case, for by treaty with the United States it had relinqnished all, authority and, dominion there.
 Joseph aud Daniel Davis, two old men of Fairfield COuniy, recently prosecuted for obtaining pension money lraudulenily, have refunded the money to the United States, and the prosecutions have been withdrawn.
 DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT NEw LONDON The car.house of the New London, Will limantic and Palmer Railroad, located in New London, was totally destroyed by fire on "Wednesday morning, together with four passenger cars. The loss is eslma- { ted at $S,O00.
 A Vermont rG,recently undertook to i search dwelling in Bradford, when the } woman oC the house mounted him with a poker and an axe, which beIng wresied from her, she pulled the most'Of his hair out of his head, threw boiler of hot wa. ter upon him, and concluded the pro. gramme of exercise by cutting a three ol f"nr inch gasll in luis head with stove { grlddle, after which she was secured, and large amount of stolen property was found in her possession-a partial illustra- ton of'Women's Rights,' ... Abner Curtis, a great shoe manufacturer al East Abingdon, Mass, proposes to some twenty or thirty young men in his employ, that if they wGI, by prudence and economy, Respectively save one hundred dollars the current year,and commit ma trimony before the lst day ot January next, he will make Them eachs New Years present aca house oi, and $lO0 ip cash, 10 aid them in the erection of cottage upon the same.
 Tie dsillery of D. w. Lawrence at Medford, Mass, was entered on 'rhusday night, and about 200 gallons of spirits un. ceremoniously allowed ,o. tricxle. down into the river, a.t ..a. ..
 John Jndsoh a man nof.in,emperate hab- iis was killed last week at Darien, by a tree falling on him while he was chipping wOods
 It is said that Barnnm has sold ,his inter. est in the Illustrated News, and, is about to enter on speculation with the Siamese Twins.
 George Doughty, the man in Flushing, l.. I, who was recently Trapped ont of $lS,000, has been examined beinre a Board of Commissioners in New York, and decided 10 be insane, and accordingly ,O0O of his property is to be divided among his relatives.
 MT. Ellis, who disappeared so mys,eri- ously from Thompson, in this State, shorl time since, and whose remains were searched for in a swamp by the direction of the spirits it has been ascertained, is in New York State, alive and well; SC that the spirits have been mistaken for once \ at least.
 | A report is prevalent in Washington that General Pierce intends to counter. mand the Japan expedition, and :ha, the exploration of Behring's Straits will bt postponed. '.....'. I Barnum is putting upa tower in ,he vi. ciniiy of the Crystal Palyce, 500 feet h;oh to tEe top of which visitors are to be li(ied by steamengine. 1Il
 The first copy of Uncle Tom's Ca bin was sold on the 18th of March. Is5Q since which time there have been three hundred and five thousand copies disposed oIs The publishers say they would give [ Mrs. Stowe one hundred thousan nd dolla rs Tor her present and prospective fortune.
 The Savannah News is credi,ablv in. formed that company of twelve women ana giFis, m Taylor county, near tl,e line of the Muscogee Railroad in that State are ieIIing the largest pines in the fares,' saving them into blOcEs, and rivinv and drawing shingles for market. }- ' | SANTA AESA;-The Mexican General is unwilling 'o reiorn to his country, in con. sequence of it's distracted condition, but iI he does come, it will he with an unrelen- ting hostility to the United States.
 ~ An editor out West has taken to writing poetry. Hear the man
 We had sweet dreams the other night, When all around was siill- We dreamed we saw host of folks ] Fey uP their Printers binf '.