Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-24

l - AtSss - n. isAi4tcI uu1 removed from
Pomfret to st. Peters Church in Plymouth.
o Rev. Horace Bushnell has returned
to Hartford. with his family, improved in
health BY his trip to Cuba.
| The result Of the various county cleo.
lions in Kentucky, show strong prepon.
derance ofthe Know Nothings in tina, State.
~ Hon. John c. Spencer, one Of the
oldest and most eminent lawyers Of New
York, died of consumption at Albany, on
Thursday evening.
D Seven thousand dollars worth of DO.
tatoes were entered free from duty under the
Reciprocity Treaty, at the Custom House,
Boston, on Monday.
u Thirty lone carcasses Of veal were
siezed in Washington Market, New York,
last week by the Health officers, as being
| too tender for food. tts
g The original rough draft of the De-
clara,ion Of Independence in the hand
writing of Mr.. Jefferson, DR.. franklin, and
the elder Adams, is preserved in the U. S.
State Department.
a The potato crop On the Island of Ber-
muda is said to be uncommonly abundant
and that the potatoes will be ripe by the end
of this month, when they will be sent in
large quantities to our ports.
a The new prohibitory liquor law Of
Michigan went into effect on the l4th inst.
| Measures have been taken to test as speedi-
ly as possible the constitutionality of tho
act by making a case for the Supreme Court
of the State.
q Kansas emigrants are beginning to re-
turn. party of them passed through AL;
bany the other day on their way TO New
Hampshire. Connecticut, Massachusetts,
Maine. declaring that they had seen tho
elephant" to their entire satisfaction.
II The Methodist Conference now or
recently in session in Troy, and at Sing
Sing, have, with very great unanimity,
adopted resolutions denouncing American
slavery as political, social and moral
curse, and promising to work, in lawful
and Christian manner, for its extinction.
Il Donald G. Mitchell, author of the
popular 6 Reveries Of a Bachelor" is now
the author of new work, which will also
be apt to make some noise-it being nothing
more nor less than a bouncing baby. Mr..
M. and his wife returned from Europe in the
Asia.
~ The N. Y. Journal Of Commerce ex-
presses decided opinion that Archbishop
Hughes has transcribed the boundaries Of
decent controversy in the style of his late
letters to Brooks, and that he has lowered
the dignity of his station and betrayed tho
weakness of his cause by his violent and
disgraceful vituperations.
B In New Orleans, the Bee of the 5th
inst says the inhabitants Of that city are.
already in the midst of summer, and theus-
| ands are winding up their business and pre-
pairing to leave. The Picayune urges the
necessity of Immediately adopting quaran-.
| tine regulations.
ET- Five newspapers in, Toronto, the
North American, Patriot, Message, Son Of
Temperance and and British Canadian
have within as many months, closed their
doors-and two other Canadian journals
have, within the last fortnight printed their
last. The Canadian press generally are
bitter against the credit system.
V A furious war is waging between the
newspapers of st. Peter and ST. Paul, as to
which Of these places shall be the seat OF
government ofMnnesota territory. st. Paul
is situated at the head of navigation on the
Mississippi, and ST. Peter at the head Of
navigation on the Missouri, and st. Peter
at the head of navigation on the Minnesota.
A railroad is in contemplation, connecting
both of these en,erprising new cities with
| Dubuque and Lake Superior.
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