Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1853-02-10
1ftpurs-Orisinal & Selected.

Convention for this District is called al New
Milford on Thursday of next week-the 18th.
We suppose that courtesy and general usage
2ntiile Litchield county to the honor OF Sc
lecting ahe nominee. There are sou nd and
aole men in various parts Of the District.
either OF whom would do honor TO his con-
stituents on the floor of Congress. We trust
a spirit of harmony and concessi on will char
aclerize the doings Of the Convention, and
that the nominee will be one in whose support
ALL true Wings can cheerfully rally. All
sectional and schismatic questions must be
avoided. Remembering the rock on which
our gallant bark was wrecked two years ago,
we should be more wary Of the breakers. and
especially beware of the false lights Of The
enemy. With prudence and energy we can
not fail of success.
n-The Third Presbytery Of New York, at
their recent session, elected the Rev. J. w.
c. Pennington, D. D.. Moderator for the en-
suing six months. DR.. Pennington is full
blooded African, and was formerly slave at
the South.
arThe votes for President and Vice Pres
ident of the United States are to be counted
in Congress to-day "wednesday
a.rThere are eight Norwegian students in
the Luther an University at Springfield. ILL.,,
who are studying with view to the ministry.
90 The delegates to the Wing State Con-
vention from New Haven are Stephen ID.
Partlee, James F. Babcock, John Woodruff
I'd, and Lucius r. Finch.
nspMr. Walter Scott Lockhart Scott OF ABB
bot ford, the only son Of Mr.. LockhaI', and
grandson of Sir Walter Scott, died unmar ried
on the 10th ult. at the age Of 81. When SIr
w alter died, he left two sons aud grandson
to perpe,uale the lineage Of his house. All
three have died chldless, and abroad, during
the last few wears. The only g,andchild ct
the great novelist now alive is MIR Lockharts
only surviving child, Mrs. Hope.
nz-rne famoas Rocky Mountain guide, An
tone Leroux, arrived in Washington lew
days since. He has jou1neyed to California
bytaur routes, and pronounces that by Aibu~
querueavs the most suitable tor the Railroad.
nS- The Hartford Courant states that the
Rev. A &, Coke has declined the call "f ST
Peters church at Baltimore.
h5-The Connecticut Herald states that the
Right Rev. Levi SillIman Ives, L. d., late
Bishop of North Carolina, and recent con
vert TO Roman ism, is a native OF Merlden IN
this State He was a congregational minister
in New York in the early part Of his career,
and married a daughter of Bishop Hobart.
The New York Dsy-Book says When
man gets mad and stops his paper, he always
borrows the mex, number Of his neighbor, 10
see if the Withdrawal of his pa,rona &c hasn't
killed the editor and dressed his columns in
mourning. This grows out of the fact that
none try to show their spite in this way but
the kind of people who imagine the world
rests on their shoulders.
0o-Sears C. Walker, a celebrated mathema>
tician ard astronomer. attached to the U. S.
Coast Survey, died in Cincinnati last week.
p-The debt of the State of Illinois is sew
enteen millions Of dollars.
o. The Providence Journal says that
the work upon the Hartford. Providence
and Fishkill Railroad has kept fully up
to the calculations of the directors and
contractors. and that the advance in the
price of iron has been so rapid since the
company con tracted for a supply, that
their contract is worth today not less than
$l5O,0Oo.
nFThere are 5677 inmates Of the New
York city Aims House at present, seven
eighths Of whom are foreigners.
A boy. six years of age, is giving con
certs in Virginia. His performance on
the violin 10 said to be mastery.
Mrs. Julia Gardiner Tyler, the lady Of
Eek President Tyler: Publishes in the Rich
mond Enqnirer reply TO the letter which
the Duchess of Sutherland and other no.
table ladies' of England thought proper,
not long since, to address to the 80 Women
Of America" on the subject Of domestic
slavery.
n An accident took place on Wednes-
day, on the Harlem road near CrotOn
Falls, by which the engineer and fireman
Of the Express train were killed. The
engine struck rock which had fallen into
the road and was dashed to pieces against
the rocks on the side. No passengers
were injured. The loss 10 supposed to
amount 10 $4,000.
!, CT Abraham Miller. who was with
Wolf at the taking OF Quebec. 10 still living
in Canada. at tho age OF lis years.
: Seventeen States have passed Home
stead Exemption Laws. Of the Southern
States. Georgia exenpts twenty acres. not
exceeding in value S400, Florida forty
acres. $400. Alabama forty acres. or house
and lot 10 town, $500, Texas two hundred
sores, $500, California, the land OF gold,
$500, South CasOliaa. forty acres $500.
The Broad Mountain Coal Vein at
Goal Castle which took FIRE on the 18th
~ December thirteen years since, the
Rottsville Journal says still continues to
pour forth its sulphurous gases and in
Wet weather steam may be seen rising in