Litchfield enquirer., 1855-09-13

two. It is broken into by the landIord. and inc beautiful and nnforiunate ladies aSs fonad In the sleep of death. with poison be- side them. A true tragedy. Among the foreign population of the ely, especially , the Germans, there are many such tales. ] or equally sorrowfui ones to be heard. There ! are the refugees of Is46 and '4s. We con , versed with one lately, MT. Peterson. archi,ect of the Cooper Institute aud the iIlPoly.echnics of Bfooki5n. He WIS one of
 the leaders of the Prussian revolution; saw Ethe king of Prussia kneel befose.she people when his life was in their hands. entreat their pardon. and swear to the constitution
 which he soon so shamefully tranpled np- on- Mr. P. escaped by hiding three or four days in the eoal-hole of a German vessel. His large landed propery was Of course, ! con6seated. Many, whe came to this conn- try during the revolution, are very much re- dneed in cIrcamstances. German ladies of
 education and refinement have been obliged l to seek places as common house-serants.
 As a people, they ffatemize wonderfully.
 In ihe German houses of enterlaiaspen4,
 thirty or forty conpatfiots. generally oi'the working classes, delight to get together in l ring and sing the songs of ..Fa,heraand- . :
 They enjoy themselves more osei their few temperate glasses of .slager'' with pipes
 and songs, than any other kind of t.yagrota { men" irishmea think they cannot eajay
 themselves without getting gloiously drunk. 1 Let every one look up his papers and be
 sure that he knows where ise was born. and
 how exacily. If any of yous readers are
 ever so,unhappy as 10 attain to ofiiciai pre-
 ferment in the city of New York, they will
 be very likely to learn in shor, tiase from 1, inooatestible proofs, .hat their father and .metherwere both foreigners, and that them
 selves were never born ia America. If il
 can't be proved any olher way, somebody
 will send over at pabiic expense, to the con-
 tinent. gentleman of very inquiring turn
 of mind. who will deEelope every needful circumstance with the most astounding mi.
 nuteness. Mir. Stephen H Branch has, by
 his researches into the pedigree of Chief of
 Police. Matsell, distinguished himself pre-
 eafinenily in this line of business. Afirs
 Alderman Briggs had become tired of being sneered at in all the city papers as Dog
 besry and a goose, he was hound 10 revenge
 his injured reputation and send over some-
 body to England who should proce tChief
 Matseli to bo Joha Ball, aud no,hia'
 shorter" NIT. Branch did this thing up in
 a style most elaborately brown. He found the parish books containing the birth-re- cord of George Matseli, measured the font ia which that George was baptized, and
 conc aded that the chief might have been abae to get in when he was smaller; meas
 ured the schoolroom in which George was
 developed; bricks, he reports, nine inchos square on the floor. States that lis whis-
 kers were admired by the youth of England; remarks the palpi.atien of his hear, when i he discovered the record oi George Ma,sell's 1 birth. Returns thanks to the people q \ Great Britain for the aid afforded him in this great discovery, aud modesiiy requests
 any person. who knows. any thing to the
 contrary of thetacts stated in his report, to
 come ou, and blow his bugle in the presence of an astounded Universe Mir. Brunch
 has beaa,,,d as a new laminary for brief hour, but his fightis out, his gas is exhaus- te,!--he is set.
 The Hast Aldermanic privilege of penndrr
 has been cut of, and hereafter, those once rdsund corporosities viii thin oat gradually
 on SSa week, and ..no pickings and s,eal- iags.' The casriage-hire privileges has
 been done away with, A carte dtaache has
 hitherto been given'so Aldermen to use car | riages en pablic business, ef wlach they
 have very little. But some have managed , 10 make biil of .$5DO a. year, furnishing l fee rides to the ..fancy"s of all descriptions, l gamblers, pickpockets, and wonepi of. had Iepa,e. This last abuse is done away with,
 after a struggle, and al some future time an Alderman may be respectable ", ,s5 The ,noteroas Ryndefs Jeff, his. ber,I, ip the Custom House the ether day to yetsrp
 to his old fighting business, temporari riiy.
 h company win policeman. he took oc
 casioa 10 assault lighting ckasacies of an
 opposite pasty, and beat him iiiorauglly. All sesy well so long as fighting asen ssas- rel among themselves. The Chinese. here
 are very spesceabietto outside barbafians,
 bat psit .shem, together, aud they cut each other into RliDce-meat. No pdlice officer
 dared 10 arrest Ryndefs, it seea,s s .s4 ss ! The Polytechnic i1nstiiuus in Brooklyn, | for boys, Is finished, and was opened issl evening. IL is to be an advanced academy
 of very high ofder. The building is aa ornament to Brooklyn. IL was built sat speculation by a company, who maj. real. lsize well from tie inyestn,ent. IL is cal LseI doubtful. W Ise ea ys.say.,s assa tsasasss ; SSt,s 4 The irade-sales are going on hriskIys The sIlarper's came down yesterday on previous
 prices. and sold more lihaa usual, S9 ,e0a The State of New Jersey is not loaded N i,I