Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-07-26
NEW YoRK coRREsPoNDENCE.

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crave your mercy, Mi. Editor. Il you hare
Issbowelssv release me from this epistolary
appointment, for I am capable of nothing
but perspiration. Furnace Of Ne5uchadnez-
Ear such heat is upon US Business suspen-
ded. the Streets like a brick oven on baking
day.with their spectral freqSenters in a nom
descript style of undress approaching father
Adams ia Eden, dangling along limp and
sappy with glimmering heayen ofabrass
IaboYs. and an terrestrial sshihgs wisaerihg
save the mercury in thermometer tubes.
Gather ye Invisible and, haggaEa yapors Q,
| tte oppsr air and fan on Us il blessed rain
ere we become as Sodom, Injury forth We
treacherous breezes of The governed, Cats
kin and lay on US airy cooling hands Of
benediclon ere we become like TO Gomorra.
| The facilities for spisitasl aid and coIfso-
.lation however are unsurpassed, and bar
ftenders have no peace Of their lives. Thirty.
i've tsof persons Intoxicated were made
on "Wednesday, one Of whom drank promis-
Icacusly up and down, and all over town
about one; hundred glasses Of liquor as he
testifies, but can't recellect amy precise To-
lcalhy where he obtained any one. Not IN
liikeiy. On the same day in Brook IN, mat
ters were put in train TO bring The case Of
one Of the proprietors of a first class hotel
before the superior court. Meantime he is
convicted. adjudged guilty of misdemean-
or, fined $50 and his liquor seized and de-
ciared forfeited. The liquor dealers are en-
dearofinsto start journal especially 7devo-
tied to their Interests, measure which hard
~ seems necessary, as a majority of the city
dailies are fighting the prehibitory law with
tooth and nail.
The adventurous Captain Kinney, whose
run away from this port we noticed some
weeks since, has brought up on reef OF
the Cayaces Islands, TO the loss of his saucy
little schooner. Nothing daunted however,
! he is about pushing on TO Central America
perhaps to found an Empire; more likely te
get slit weasand. Certain parties here Of
The iillibuster stripe are watching his pro.
gress with the greatest anxiety and the live.
liest sympathy. se
An effort is making to revive the practice
! 10 many cases discontinued, Of reading the
Bible in the schools Of the city. The Off
! GERS Of the Tenth Ward School recently sub,
united a preamble and resolutions to the
Board Of Education, urging the reading d
! the Scriptures as a part of the opening ex,
ercises in all the schools. The sexed ques
ton Bible in our schools or nota" seems
in fine way for revival.
The packet ship Aarora from Liverpool
arrived last evening with 576 steerage pass
! engers, Of whom more than one half ale
Irish. ss's - II i
An engineer of 4Ist Regiment Of U. S
militia communicates this morning the in
vention Of a new missile of war, by Home
Anderson, formerly professor of natural sci
ences and mathematics in Clinton Liberia
Institute. 1t is shell filed with combus
ibles which are suddenly ignited by.explo
sion, and wraps in intense, flame larg,
area. The nature of the object agains
which it explodes makes no difference il
the volume or intensity Of the ere, which i.
capable of supporting itself for 90 minutes
on barren rock. Satisfactory experiment.
are said to have. been made, and after
grand public exhibition he intends to tax,
it to Europe. Is.
The U. S. figate Congress sailed on tn,
18th inst, for the Mediterranean. Oh San
| dy Hook she made some fine target prac
tice at distance Of 800 yards. With stii
breeze and rolling ship at this distanc'
not one of the 100 guns butwould have pen
etrated a ship Of ordinary sire.
Mayor Wood leaves us for few days 4
recruit. Since entering npon his duties h
has breakfasted at daylight, and his act
after breakfast, are they not written in til
many reforms Of Gothams
/ But good Mr.. Editor release me from FOL
lowing the slender thread of this week.
events any further. Even now am sum
moned by the King Of Coney Island to a,
tend levee Of mermaids on his sands, an
participate in aclam bake. AS rcroir.
iSTEMPEaANcE IN BETHLEM.--ChaTie
Lounsbnry was found intoxicated last week
and was brought before Joshua Bird, Esq
toanswer therefor he was found guilty an,
fined, but appealed TO the superior court :
We don't know whether it was Iiounsbur,
or some other victim in the same place who
according TO the Derby Journal, took til,
following means Of providing himself viii
funds to pay expenses. The subject wa
arrested and fined, with costs, TO the amour
of about $50. There is law, general,
disregarded, howevcr,) to The effect tina
cattle found in the highway may be driver
to The pound, and the owner 10 redeem them