Litchfield enquirer., 1853-09-08

for his opponent. A Committee was ap' pointed iO investigate the matter, and re. ported this afternoon that the charges were IrOe-ihe delegates implicated having re. ceived bribeS from both candidates. and voted for the one paying the most. The delegates were expelled by almost unan- nous vote.
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 The Broadway Tabernacle COngrega. tional SOcieIy in New York, have voted Rev. J. P. Thompson. their pastor and one of the editors of the New York Independ- ant, @l20OO tO help pay his travelling ex. penses in Europe and Asia (where lie is at present. and meet his debts, and raised his salary from $2OOO to $3000. His ssI- ary is also continued all the time he is ab- sent abroad.
 Charlotte Pinney, an insane woman, re- cenlly escaped from inc Aims H0use al Windsor, Ci. was found dead on the track of the Western Railroad, near Wesifield, on Friday morning. She is supposed tu have been thrown from the tack and killed by a Thursday night train.
 The New York Herald says:-" Our London corresp endent assures us that a war is fully expected in England, and that the people, al least, wish for it."
 A MAMMOTH ToAD.-We learn from the Pougl.keepsie Daily Press, that couple of workmen in FInch's ship yard, while en- gagged in sawing locust log. came across a large toad, snugly sccreied in she centre. which was alive, and weighed seUen pounds and e half The log is perfectly sound and is supposed to be 100 years old. How is toadyship go, there, and now long he DC. cupied his snug quarters, is mystery, of course.
 Dr. Robert de Lambelle, physician of Paris, announces that shock of eleclrici- ". given to pa,ien, dying from the effects of chlnsolorm, immediately counieracis it's influence, and returns the sufferer to life.
 Three of Kossu,l's sisters are residing in New York. One is at the head of boa rding house, No. Irving Place. The others intend 10 open lace and silk store at 76l Broadway. Five years ago they were wealthy themselves, but they are now poor. Two of them have recently been to Newport, to secure customers among the wealthy and fashionable persons who as semble there.
 REcovERrxG -Mr. Miller, who was so brutally attacked by Kelly and his gang in tie streets ot Waterbury recently, is mol, dead, as some Of the papers have stated, but is rapidly improving in health. His recovery is no longer doubtful.
 When, on the 9th Of June, locomotive was run for the first time on the Egyptian Railroad, the BedOuins gall"ped alongside on ,heir fleet horses for some time, until they found they had nO chance of keeping pace with the locomotive.
 A meeting in Liverpool has been held with the view of drawing the attention of the friends of temperance to the effort now making in Manchester to get up an agiia- ton for the total abolition of the liquor traf- fic in that country, and that hill may be brought into parliament similar tO that known as the Maine liquor law. ResOlu- lions were passed unanimously.
 TIE REAL CAUSE. The Nashua Tele.. graph finds the real cause of the suicide by drowning of the TWO young women ui Manchester in "the miserable morbid state of which thousands of the simple minded girls cultivate with wonderful success, and find abundant food for il ill the popular Ii'- eraiure of the day. The wonder IS, that with all this kind of cultivation, nine tenihs of it's victims do not commit similar folly and wickedness.
 MAINE LAW IN VERMoSr.-Mr. Bugbee, the Town Agent for selling ardent spirits (under the Maine Law.) in the town of Braiileborouah. Vermont, has been prose- cuted hy the Seectmen of that town for selling strong drink indiscriininately, and also for selling an adulteraied and impure article. The judge ruled that the case was not strictly within his jurisdiction, but that fl the impure stuff was hereafter sold broad. cast at tue Agency" he should enter a complaint to suppress the town shop as a nuisance.
 ANOTHER VICTIM One of the most highly educated ladies at Ballslon Spa, has just become raving maniac, and is des- tined 10 end her days in mad house. She ehas been for some months wha: is termed a " medium" and though possessing more brains and more finished education than any, or all the other " mediums" al Balls ton Spa combined, yet her intellect has been the first to give way, and she has be- come maniac through the influence of sO called spiriiualism." She is continually raving about " evi! spirits, alleging that "evil spirits" have seized Mold of her, and entrea,ing her parents to cease believing in tsp riiualism," &c.
 TIE ELECTIONS The sum of the Con- Gressional elections is that the Wings have gained three members and lost two. Tue gains and losses are of little importance considering the OveIw helming Democratic majority that is certain in the next Con gress i: but the result shows that the Whig party is not quite dead.
 The disesse which SD long assailed the buitOnwoOd tree, appears to have died ou' The Providence Journal notices that iht buttonwoods by the roadside are apparent y vigorous and fourisI'ing, although bear ing marks 0f their former suffering.
 BORN AZ. THE RATE or THIRTY MILES