Litchfield enquirer., 1853-04-14
PAIIAprLPRIA. April T.


 guilty. Upon the verdict being rendered, the prisoner made a speech, in which he charged the murder upon his sun. Mr. Kelly, counsel :nr the prisoner, replied uO Spring amidst much excitement. |
 SUICIDE E.-Tim wife of Rev. Mr. Beach of WOcOII, threw herself into a well in that pl ,ce on Saturday last, and when dis covered life was extinct.
 Archbishop Hughes (i is rumored in RO- man Catholic circles) will s0un leave for Rome, there 10 receive cardinals hat.- The Ri. Rev. Archbishop of Baltimore, and the Rr. Rev. Bishop of Philadelphia are to oficiale in his stead during his ab- sence, which may be prolonged 10 year.
 THE ERIE RAILRoAD.-What a vast work Ihis road is, we have an idea of it in the recent address which the President, Mr Loder, has published 10 some of lte stock holders. The road, including all its assets, property, and effects of every name and de scripliOn, has cost the stockholders, up tO March lst, 1858, $SO, ,277 ,542. There are of main road, Of solid and permanent cha racier, nearly all well fenced. 446 miles Newburgh branch, IS miles; sidiDgs or. switches, 98 miles; double track I39 miles making in all 70l miles of iron rail laid.
 The working machinery is,l ,l49 locomotives. lSl passenger and baggage cars, 1855 freight and burden cars--wlIh sieamb0a,s, slnrehouses, depo,s, telegraph lines, &c.-- W Y Express.
 TIE FLYING SHIP Mfr. Rufus Porter, whose frequent announcements that his machine for navigating the air would specs dily be ready for tr,al, contingent, however, on the speedy receipt Of certain amount of money, has lately gwen an exhibition of a model Oi his coHlrivaEce at Washington. 1t consists of aaals or supporter, and car, attached to which was dlminutive sieaRa eR2ias tbe entire weight being only 15 pounds. 1he moaes sadsd around toe Fo0tH guided by the pFopsiioe of tAe ear. 'fbe National aBaeliigeacer expresses a ln other 0reeis0R than before the wind, as well as to it's adaRisdness Q escaaRDer sbs s,de pressure ef heawy breezaA
 GoRs Seymour has appeiaisd John c, Palmer, Esq ,, C0nnss0ner of the School Fund.- b.B F. filed u1is office for short tllna,, Ga year or two snce,O
 h is siaied in le4aRrs fiion Havanlla. that full three. thousand ne.rUofs have been laalf- the E1ih of Fe6nuary, on tbe kland of Ciiha linnh the slave ships nolwithsiasd> ng the preiendRd vigilance of hhe anthoGi- iess and the walGii whiGh the English arm sI vessels Reep ID.
 Over three han,Ired MaHmons arrived at \ St. Ll,uia 0In the 18th ulr., via New Orleans, { ram England, an their way 10 Salt Lake. aud vesseE with three hundred persons of he same faith had prrvEoua!y arrrvrd at he Beilzr, frum Denmark There are d. ID nlure vessels 0n the way from England, lsvIng OO board ffum 95O0 10 5000 Mur- mons, on Ihetr way to Utah, and arrange nents are making for the transportation som EurUpe, next year, Of about 10000 nore.
 The milk men of New York and vicini> ", suIne two hundred in number, have held l meeting and decided 10 raise the pr,ce of miIk 10 four cents in the summer and five n the winter, in order, as they say, that hey may be able lo furnish their custom. ITS with "pure aIiicIe"-lhey don't say whether of miIk or water.
 $ A colossal statue, in bronze, of Beelho- yen is now beiny nade in Florence, to oc :upy niche in lhc new music hall in Bos uil.
 IL is said that Hon. OrvlIe IiungerlorG, 'esidng at Watertown, Jefferson County, Ieeps five thousand hens in ten acre IO,, with large and suitable buildings ail round Or their lodgings, setting aud rearing chick. .ns.
 The Editor of the Newark Daily Adver- iser, in letter from Italy says that sever- Il ,Ishundred refugees, under arrangement, with the Sardinian Government, were 10 be sen, in few days in public ship to America.
 The stone contributed to the Washing ton Monument, by Swizerland, aud upon which is inscribed The Free Swiss Con- federation to ihe memory of Washington" was presented to the Monument Associa- ton on Tuesday.
 Some twenty houses on both sides of ) Kng street, Charleston, $. C., were de | slruycd by fire on Monday morning. The | aggregate loss is SS5 900, of which S4.4OO was iIiSureu at tue agency Ot the Hartford Companies.
 The Rhnde Island election has :ermina- ted in favor of the democracy. IL is sup. posed that the lquor law has also been sus- ia;ned.
 The boiler in Phelps & Jorlan's Rolling Null, at Covington, near Cincinnati, exp!c- ded One day last week, and destroyed the
 building. Eight persons were dangerous ly wounded. and . grea, many were iniur-
 ed. as about 200 persons were working
 around the building.
 GoLD MINES IN CANADA.-Responsible
 parties in England have pe,i,ioned Parlia-
 ment for charter to work some recently
 discovered gold mines in one of the town
 ships of Canada East.
 Levi T. Tarbox. assistant Librarian of
 the New York State Assembly, has been
 found guilty of an atlemp, 10 6ribe mem.
 Der of that body. for which in;quiiy he has
 been dismissed from his situation, and com. |