Litchfield enquirer., 1855-08-23

E The early srsin down on the 9ousa- tonic Road. Monday morning. killed yoke of cat;le, near CornwaIl, They were walls Ing on the track. Fortunately tho cow Icaacher threw them of, and 10 ham was done to the train. TT A letter from Eeavenworth, Kanaas Territory. says that General Haraey was expected to start on his expedition against the Sioux Indians, on the 4th inst. His command numbers sevea hundred men,
 ahich Is considered insufkeiens fsr the thorough chasusement of the red skins. | ] syEs Hon. Abbott Lawrence. Of Boston, died at his residence in that city, on sa,air- day in the ssd year of his age. He was a maa of great wealth, and has frequen.ly l given large sums for schools snd olhes
 benevolent purposes. The pos, of Minister to England was filled by him under Presr dent Taylor's administration.
 E From want of time and room we are unable to publish the commuaica,ion ,oi ' Legion" and as we have reason to be- lieve that he represented the facts and ex- pressed the feelings of the majority of the community in former letief, we hardly think it worth while to waste his ammuni tion on such game. x s.ss | 5E < A l H On Tuesday, Wm. kaliar; work. man at the ScoyiiIe Manufacturing Go., at Waterbury, got his arm crushed between
 two grind siones while attempting to cast
 off band. The space between the stones
 was only 3-4 of an inch, and of course his arm was horribly crushed, though it is hoped it may be saved. :s.., 1 It is said that inc Legislature oi 1 Kentucky stands thus : The newly elected
 Senators are B Know-No,hings to ' Demo, 3'crats. The IS Senators who hold over, are divided in about the same ratio. OI s2 Representatives heard from, 5 are Know
 Nothings, and 29 Democrats. Eighteen to be heard from. s I A hahy show is sexpected to come ofl in Boston under the auspices of Barnum. It will be on the same plan with the ceIe- brated show which recently took place in { his Mnseamin New York. Ons such show in century ough. to be enough 10 satisfy the public, for while 1t has the merit ol being something new it is not at all. honor able to human nature. asa ET The Winsted Heraid thinks we were mistaken in saying that Martin Cairns was l, looking up location for the new State Hease, and says it is Light house Cairns would be after locating and Litch- field being the highest point in the State, i it's claims will be pretty ssrong.'
 a We believe inland counties are allowed but one light-house, and as there is ,nota. bfe establishment of the kind near Winsted, that could aot have been the object of Mar. ,in's visit.
 1 The Philadelphia Bulletin, in an article oa she recent Denial Convention remarks thas it is universally admitted tha, the dentists of America are the first in the | world that the most eminent in Paris fou years have been Americans, ,and German dentist knows no higher praise for any i'm provemeRt in his profession than to term i, Americaa. It is easily enough explained ai,hou. going tar. They have more expe
 rience. There is no country in the world where there are so many roiten teeth.
 FRIEND HYArr: like the spirit of your. editorial of this week. and am deeply impressed with the fact that resistance to the aggressions of the slavery proPagandists is is one of our mos, sacred political duties atthis time-- not only 10 the North, but to the Nation. To whal are we coming A party protesting to be democratic, selling our very birtIl-righs fol less than a mess of pottage-for the mos, petty and contemptible offices in the gift ol their public men; professing to desire ,l,a,
 the people should rule, great siickiers fol popular sovereignty, and yet the moment freemen undertake 10 exercise this sovereignty
 permit them to he shot down like dogs, i
 they do not exercise 1t ina particular way
 Shameona practice so utterly inconsisien ]; with the profession. This, however, is '
 fair exhibition of patent democracy. Nc more like that of '9S or 1916 than light i. 1 like darkness.