Litchfield enquirer., 1853-05-19

Adjourned 'ilI Tuesday.
 The steam propeller Uncas, plying be, tween N. Y. and Hartford, was run into I--. echnnner, of Bridgeport, on Friday l were carried away. ~eA nilOt house ib boom ard bowsprit--her name was not ascertained, ss she did not heave too to see whether assistance was necessary.
 Boston, May II.
 ANOTHER RAILROAD AcclDENT.-.The Fall River freight train ran off the track at Brain,ree, ,iIis morning, ping fifteen cars in heap. The engineer, whose name was Stone, jumped off the locomotive, and saved his life. He was much bruised, however. The fireman was also injured. No lives losl.
 ACCIDENT ON THE ERIE RAILROAD "A collision of the emigrant IraIn from New York, and the day Express train from Dunkirk, took place oh the RamapO Branch of the Erie Railroad, abou, four miles from Jersey City, on Monday evening, and four brakemen were seriously injured. The bla me is on the conduc.pr of tle emigranl train, who was fifteen minutes ahead of his time.
 BuGa!,, May 12.
 Tee steamer Hiram Powers was totally consumed by fire, on Saturday last, al Grand Chain, on ihe Wabash River. She was bound for Cincinnati, and had full cargo, No lives were lost.
 New York, May l2lh.
 Theodore Rossu was arrested to day, having been detected in the act of breaks ing open foreign mail letters, and extracts jag money and other valuables therelr0m. He attempted to fly, but was caught, and committed tO prison in default of $500O bail. He had been clerk in the Post Office for the last Two years., ~. @ The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune writes:
 Some wae of Wing Postmaster in !he interior of New York, has just sent lock of his hair, sealed in the wax with which his bundle ofreturns for the quarter ending on the SOlh Murch las. is secured. IlL~ks much as though intended as an iniimatiOn that his scalp (oficiaD is ready for the vc- tors, whenever they please to take it. The fellow is no Silver G:ay-lhal's quite evi- dent.
 FUNNY TO THE LAsr.-Some of the Whig office holders decease in very jolly manner. A decapilaied route agent on the mail line between Boston and Burling- ton, via Vernon, Central Railroad, who temporarily fills the place of his Democrat ic successor, now adds " edo" to llie word 's route" whenever he signs his name to way bill. It is not bad head that jokes SO cleverly after it's oh.-Boston Post.
 The New York Medical Gazette states that twenty nine suicides, five murders, and two hundred and nine cases of insani ly, are directly traceable to spiritual mani> lestaliOns.
 MERCANTILE EXPEDITION TO JApAN.- The Yankee traders who are always wide awake for speculation, it appears are on hand for a swap of commodities with the Japanese, as soon as our squadron has convinced the Emperor that he must trade or surrender. A. Ja panese trading compa> nv has already been formed at San Fran cisco, and three clipper ships and brig are already preparing .o follow in the wake of our war vessels for an exchange of no liOns.
 A model locomotive engine, tender and passenger car with the materials for track, are to be presented 10 the Emperor by our Government, through the medium of the Expidl'ion. They are completed, and ready for shipment.
 The new stamped envelopes are expect. ed io he ready fur use by the first of June, but their distribution will not probatlv commence beinre the first of July. The prlce is lo be SS.90 per hundred-$S for tre stamps and 20 cents for the envelopes.
 A movement is on foot in Westchester Co.,, N. Y, for the erecllon of monumen, lo the taplors of Ma tT Andre, on the spot where the event took place. The lnspec. tors nf the State Prison have volunteered to furnish the marble from the quarries al Sing Slng, and 10 provide lnr the cutting of the inscription. They ask the citizens of the county 10 secure the ground necesS sary for the purpose in rarry,own.
 A commercial Convention which is to meet al Memphis, Tenn., on the first Mons day 0i June, will consider the esta blisl,- menl ot a continental depot for cotton in oppos'i"n tO Liverpool, and a Southern lmP"rIlng marke, in opposition IO New York a line Of steamers to Europe: the direct exporia,iOn of cotton by the pla n,er -immigraIion to Southern ports, and the education of Southern youth at home. A distinguished writer says: sThere is 1 but one passage in the Bible where the l girls are commanded 10 kiss the men. and | that is the golden rule, Whatsoever ye | would that men should do unto you do 1 ye even a0 unto them.