Litchfield enquirer., 1854-07-06

NEw QAnnon BkEES ,-Ilo Leeds Timss believes that Q Government ofdtF Of cannoh bAll6 of Q new shape is being sxssu,ed by local foundry. They ore long, lhree.sided, and terminate in . three Oornsred point. It is eOnjectuFed that they are intended to be used against fore tsssssss but t.uothing positive can De pros nounced on this head. as the casting of them has been as secret as possible.
 The. claims. paid by the N. Y. and N. H. R, R. Go. for damages on account of the Norwalk disaster, now amount to S252,Sll. Most of lhe claims have been settIea and two only have been put in suit. Some further expenditures will be needed. The amount paid has absorb nearly all the net earnings of the Road for lhs year past.
 Mr. Bingham,s late an actor at San Francisco, Cal, who was coming to New York with Susan and Kate Denim, the actresses, Susan having parted from her husband, Mir. Woodwald3 in that State. was shot on the Isthmus by some one unknown. on the 1st of June. Mf. W. was a passenger on the same boat The two ladies remained at Aspinwall with B. who was dy ing when tie steamer left. Mr. " came on.
 A riot occurred at Ripley, Ohio, on Saturday night, caused by the inmates of coffee house throwing rotten eggs into sa tenpsfpDce needing. The temperance men 'rified the coffee house and then yis> ited allthe iqpor shops in the town, and those sthat4 dit not agree 10 give up tlie business were assaulted. No lives were
 The Whig State Committee of Massa> chuselts have issued spirited address to call a State Convention month .earl- fer than was expected, giving as asrea> son the extraordinary petils of freedom in consequence of the Nebraska bill.
 The N. Y. Mirror says the late census showS that the number of Irishmen in the United Staies is less than l .OOO, ,0Oo; and our Federal. State, and municipal "Blue Rcoks," !" we believe. will show that a amajo,iiy of the public offices and places in the United States are filled by nish- men. Is it tstfange that Americans are waking up?
 The. New Orleans True Delta says that though there is on an average. n mn,der committed in New Orleans every. tyelve hours, -ihere have been but two conyic- tions for the crime in eight.years.
 Congress has recently voted books for the new members of both houses to the amount Of si0yer two fundted thousand dollars. It. is said that the new men- bers often ssIl'tbese books 10 certain spec. ulators who buy them at a discount and then furnish Congress with them at full prices for other new members. , The. .pugiiist Morrissey has been arrest. ed on "a requisision from Gov. Wasbburn of Massachusetts, for engaging in a prize fight at Roston Corners. in .that State, last sumner. with" Yankee Sullivan y
 The Louisville Courier says preach- CT upaih Boyle County. preached from the following text 1" Believe and repent or you sbah be damned--and . Hardin County jary can't save yoa.''
 John Randolph once said he expect. ed to live to the time when slaves in Vir- gina would advertise for runaway mas- ters--as it took all lhe corn to feed the hogs, all the hogs to feed the negroes and there was nothing left the planters ;
 Acotrespondens ofthe Syracuse Stan dard, writing from Rochester, N. Y. says !" Fred Douglass is to be brought out for Congress in the Monroe, dist. N. Y. and expresses the opinion that he will be elected.
 Anthony Thatcher has received iudg. meni against Horace Greely for $65o for libel, on account of telegraphic des- patch published in the Tribune. stating that Thatcher had embarked on pirati> cal expedition.
 Thssbest specimen of !" f,iasterly ihac tivity" hassbesn given by Gen Cass, who has kept what was once his farm. but is now ia'the heart of Detroit, till it is worth $s.00O. 900. That ought to console him for tlle losssof the Presidential election.
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