Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-05-03

~ ~ 0ftnSlifSs IN the Town OF New MILFORD.
/ y The Fairfield County Cattle Show
and Fair is TO be held at Norwalk on the
a5th, a6ih, eth and ssth of September next,
under the large tent belonging to the Society.
Arrangements are made for an attractive
display of cattle and agricultural products.
a About thousand letters were snug
gied into Boston by the Africa in the trunk
! ofan express agent. They were seized and
contiseated before delivery.
p The Collector of Taxes in Stamford
has absconded with about So, $50 of the pub
| lie funds. He is supposed to have gone to
! Chicago.
u Recruiting for the foreign legion of
the British service is going on vigorously
in Boston, under the direction of the Proyin-
cial Secretary of Nova Scotia. Although
the agents make no secret of their business,
the authorities have not as yet interferaed
with them.
| U 1t now appears that the letter sent to
Commodore Vanderbilt, by some members
of the New Jersey Legislature, wishing to
nominate him for the Presidency, was
hoax, designed to ridicule the nomination
of George Law.
- A rag picker in San Francisco while
! tearing out the lining of an old trunk that
was thrown from the Crescent City Hotel,
discovered twenty $40 pieces, snugly stored
, upon their edges. They had been placed
there for concealment, doubtless, by the
former owner of the trunk.
V 1t was claimed before the election by
papers opposed to the Temperance Law that
,herewere ten thousand Wings in this State
who would vote for Ineham as Governor.
| Deducting that number from Mr.. Ingham's
vote, gives, we suppose the true strength of
the Democratic party in Connecticut.
p We regret to hear of the death of
Mr.. N. b. Porter, formerly employed as an
engineer in the construction of the Nauga-
tuck Road, and not long since employed
1--WE helieve) in Central America. Mr.. p.
died in New York few days SINCE. of a
pulmonary disease.
IL Rev. VIM. B. Weed, of Stratford,
has received call from the First Congrega-
tional Church in Norwalk, of which Rev.
DR.. Hall was lately pastor.
- The friends of the Housatonic rail-
road are felicitating themselves over pro-
spective increase of business on account Of
the probable construction of the new city
lrall in New York, out of the Lee marble,
which will pay good deal of freight money
to the company.
~ Archbishop Hughes is battling man
fully for the supremacy of the Romish CHI.
The spread of American sentiment has
alarmed the Guardian of the Pope's inter-
est of this country, and he is eXerting his
utmost to defend the cause Of his master.
- Roswell Cook, of Sou,hington, COM
mitted suicide about 3 o'clock Monday
morning, by cutting his throat in his bed
room. lie was an elderly gentleman, and
had been store keeper in Sou,hing,on for
| a long period Of time.
r. Brigham Young addressed long
! and imprisoned harangue to the saints a,
Sal, Lake city, February 18th, in reference
to the interference of the general govern
ment with their peculiar institutions. He
coniended that no power in the government
could lawfully interfere with the Mormon
religion, polygamy included, and that the
saints of this latter day will not submit, to
any such interference.
! IL The n. Y. Ecening Post very peril
nently asks, in view of the wrongs inflicted
! upon American citizens in HAVANA, why
our Government is not equally inilamed by
the wrongs inflicted upon American citizens
in Kansas, where they have been driven by
threats OF death, from the rights of suffrage!
If the Government desires acrusade against
the invaders of the rights of American cili-
zens, let them begin at home:
II Under the yard of the Washington
House, Philadelphia, a lead pipe has been
found. Eve inches in diameter, with mouth
| piece in the cellar OF the hotel. leading to a
vault of masonry fourteen feet distant, in
which were dilapidated desk, crucible,
and finger ring; but the strangest disco
very of all was ringbolt secured to the wall
and upon the ground around i, number of
human bones.
| ~ North Carolina is likely TO encounter
formidable rivals in the production of her
staple crop of turpentine, in some of her
more southern sisters. Thousands of acres
in the southern sections Of Georgia and Ala
bama, and in Florida, which up to few
years ago, were considered worthless, ex-
cept for range, are now coming into market