Litchfield enquirer., 1853-09-01

REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS The Hart. ford Couran, has been furnished with the following l;st of surviving soldiers in ,ha, county: ....
 Thomas Bissell. South Windsor, Aged 96; Silas Rowley, Bloomfield, Aged 94; Chauncey Lewis, Sou,hiDgion, Aged 93 Frederick Chapman, Windsor, Aged 9S :; Isaac Osborn. Avon, Aged 9S; ROber, Francis. Wethersfield, Aged 9l '; Elijah Barnes, Burlington, Aged S9.
 Peter Miller, sober man, married ter. magan. of wife at Cincinnati, few days since, lived with her three or four days, and then. after cutting himself shOckingly will a hatciet, threw himself before . moving train of cars, and was nearly killed.
 The cholera has abated a Cumberla nd. Md, and tue citizens are returning lo the town.
 The Northampton CoUrler esta blishmens is offered f,r sale. The editor is desirous of seeking d fereni mode of Life.
 A contemplated insurrcc,ion of ,I,e slaves in Nott0say Go. Va., was recently discOv~ cred and suppressed. They intended mur, dering all the white inha abi,an,s of tt e place.
 The coiton crep ioroughou, South Caro- lima has been seriously injured by long and heavy rains.
 George Saunders has been at last com missioned as U. S. Consul at London. | A young man by the name or Luther Rogers was caught in the machinery Ol the Payne Mills, Bridgeport, lasi Saturday, and 90 severely injured tha, one of his legs had to be ampuiatcd.
 The honorary degree of u. D. wss con- tered m Franklin Pierce, by ti,e Norwich University, (Vi.) al it's Ia ie commencement. General Pierce is ore of the Trustees of the University.
 A lot of pure bl0oled, short horned cat- tie, purchased in England, sold at the farm Of Bru,us Clay of Bourbon Co.,, Ky, on the 18th inst, realizing extraordinary pri- ces. One hull brought SI, ,525 another, S4,S5s. None of them cos, much over 9I 900. A COW which cost $500, sold for SS .O5O. Souihdown bucks brought as high as S765, and Co;swold, $l,O:O.
 TBE ADvERTIsEME DUrY IN ENG- LAND.-The bill for the abolition of the advertisement duty in England has receive ed the assent of the Queen, and is now a law.
 Grace Greenwood returned home in the last European steamer, aud is now on . visit 10 BnsiOn, for the purpose of putting to press her Travels in Europe" which will De issned immediately by her publish CTS, Messrs. Ticknnr, Reed 6 Fields. 
 It is said that there are sboui sixty law yers. pension agehis, &c.,, in the different States, held for trial, charged with issuing fraudulent papers for procuring pensions. GA person who wears pants" lately in- suited married lady in Columbus, Ohio, and she got satisfaction for the insult by raw hiding him soun.lly. while her husband and another relative held him in . good position to take his licking quietly.
 The Louisville Journal says Gen. Pierce succeeded very well in riding two horses, Old HHnkerism and BarnbuInerism, when the two were going the same way, but Low m the world can lIe manage 10 stick i0 the backs of both, when they are going in dif- ierent directions.
 The steamer Wisconsin was run into by me pr0pellOF Brunswick on Lake Erie, wednesday night, and a'mOst immediately sunk. Fortunately there were but few pae- sengers on board, and al eecaped on the prOpelI0r, which suslained no dama re- The Wisconsin was an old boat. Since the new divorce bin wen. into on. eTatiOn in Ohio, marrisges are placed un-