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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-13

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Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

TH1 HARTFORD Three young men, all Fishmen, were arrested last week on suspicion of having caused the frequent fires which have occurred in that city recently. They were brought up for examination on Saturday, and plead not guilty; the case was then postponed until this week, and the prisoners, being unable 10 procure bonds in the sum of S25OO each, were again committed to jail.
 Perhaps one cause for these outrages, so common of late, may be found in the prin- ciples taught by the Roman Catholic priests. The Hartford Christian Secretary says Vi- car General Hughes oi St. Patrick's Church. in that city, successor to "Father Brady" is preaching Romanism to his followers in its purity. Last Sabbath week he attacked the free schools, and was particularly se- were upon these institutions of universal ed ucation. He told his audience that they were the hot-beds of sec,arianism, ,and would destroy the souls of their children if they sent them there to be educated. He told them to alienate their children from the free schools, ard to alienate them from republi- canism!
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08
Tnk Wnie ALMANAC, published by Gree

TnE WHre ALMANAC, published by Cree ley & McElra;h, besides its qualities as an almanac, is an almos, indispensable politi- cal manual. The number for 1855 is jus, out. It contains the Calendar, Astronomi- cal Calculations for the year, Lis, of Exe- cu,ive and Judicial Officers of the United States, Members of the present Congress, and of tine next, as far as elected, Histori. cal Sketch of the War in Europe, another on ,ae Know Nothing 0rLer, Statistical Ta- blss, the Slavery Legislation of the United States. the Public Lands, Treaty of Reci- proci,y, Treaty with Maxico, Treaty with Japan, Abstracts of Reports on National Finances. Agricultural Facts, Vessels in the United states Navy, Election Returns in the di!feren, States for the las' year, and Table cfs,a,s Governments.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

The topmost question in New York poli- ties at the present time is, whether Vim. H. Seward shall be returned to the U. s. Sem ate. This contest has one no sel feature, that Is in being all about one candidate. It seems to stand Seward against nobody. The mail from this city to Albany encouraging and iscoursging-intimidating. threatening of all sorts, and bearing in all directions upon the mind of the weak-minded and wavering representatives. The Tribune has large hope that Seward will be reelected, but this new Know Nothing element confounds all calculation but We shall know the result some time-and as the canvass is limited, and outside of this slow coach of city in making out election re.urns,it might be safe to predict that We should know after elec- ton who is the winner.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08
From California and Sandwich Islands.

From California and Sandwich IslanSls.
 The Star of the West arrived in New York last week. bringing late and important news from the Pacific.
 The Legislature of California had organ- ized, and the Governor had delivered his annual message. He comes down again upon the Coolies, whom he regards as a curse and nothing else; he is willing to see taxes so heavy upon them as in effect to prohibit further immigration, and even to cause the return of those now there.
 Crimes seem to. abound more than ever. Several of tie escaped convicts have been captured. Several hangings have come off and more matter for the halter has been prepared.
 Lower California, which unhappy land seems doomed never to rest from chastise- ments by foreign fllibusters and domestic rebels, has suffered another revolution-but its results were not important.
 The most important news of the arrival, however, Is from the Sandwich islands, King kamehameah HI, after brief illness, died in the 42d year of his age. Prince kiholiho has been proclaimed King, under the name of kamehameha ". He is tole- rahiy we'll educated, and has visited this country with Dr. Judd, the American Mis- sionary. He is ambitious, and a strenuous opponent of anneNaiion. As he has been the great stumbling-bIock to that scheme, and as the treaty, contrary, to past expecta- ton, had never been signed, with the late king die all hopes of immediate annexation to the United States.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08
Nga'ie ulaural Society.

Members of the committee meet to-day in this village and at Wo'cottville, to hear what inducements are offered by each place to secure the holding of the next annual County Fair and Cattle Show.
 We believe, however, that no committee has the power to change the location of the Fair-,he constitution providing that Il vote of tho Society at public meeting must be had before such step can be taken. Mos, of the members, We think, are satisfied with the present place cf meeting, and would strongly oppose any change.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08
TOWN MEETING.

A meeting was held at the Court House on Monday afternoon, agreeable 10 call. but was not very fully attended. A tax of II cents was laid on List of 1854, and Dr. A. s. Lewis appointed Collector of the same. The petition for discontinuance of the high way near the house of David Westover in Bantam was refused, and the one near the house of Benjamin Hubbard in the Pitch granted. Tine number cf Assessors to be elected at the next annual meeting was in- creased % five, but no change made in the number of other town officers.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

The London Times has an article show ing up the condition of the Allied forces in the Crimea. Its statements are we'll ca!cu- lated to make sensation. It says that at the beginning ofJanuary the army could muster only l4,Ooo bayonets; the artillery and engineers had been reduced in the same proportion, and cavalry no longer existed as force. The deaths amounted to sixty a day, and the number disabled by fatigue and sickness to 1000 week. This ratio, The Tunes thinks, will rapidly increase.
 It is computed that out of Ii,ooo men nomnally fit for service, only 2,0O0 are in good health. The army was an army of invalids at the beginning of the month, al- though the Crimean winter had not set in.
 The conclusion to which the Times comes is, that the army is likely to be GU. of.
 These statements differ altogether from those officially given.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08
Ibs Lifchfieio Enquirer.
 LITC HFIELD: Thursday Morning. Feb. g, 1855.
Whig State Convention.

A State Convention of the Wings of Connec- ticut will he heldai the Mei,d~on. in rhe city oi Hartford. on Wednesdny. the 2s,l of Febru,ry nexr, al 10 o'clock. A. M. fur the purpose ui nominating Candidates for State Officers, viz Governor. Lieut.. Governor, Secretary, Treas. urrr and Comptroller.
 Tine Wings of the several towns in the State are requested tp send delegates la the ahove convention, equal 10 double the number of Rep rcseaiativss 10 which they are entitled in the General Assembly,.
 JAMES DIXON. Chairman,)
 J. DIANE ALDEN,
 ALFRED II TERRY,
 g. D. NOR FHWAY Vhiz State
 WM. K. SHELBY, ! Central
 WM. F. PARK. Commi,tes.
 ELISHA CARPENTER,
 A. F. WARNER,
 l.. E. PEASE.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

THE FouR Polxrs.-These are the fa- nouo :. four points" which formed the ba- sis of negotiations at Vienna, and which the Czar has thought it the most prudent course to accept, viz:
 l. The discontinuance of the Emperor of Russia's exclusive protectorate of the Prin- cipalitiss.
 3. The establishment of the free naviga. ton of the Danube.
 3. The revision of the treaty of the 18th of July, l54l.
 i. The relinquishment by Russia of it's claims to protect the Sultan's subjects who profess the Greek faith.
 But peace canno. be proclaimed except on another condition, which is, that the Czar pay the whole expense of the war.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

HE LATE SNow STORM in northern Illi- nois was the most severe ever known in that section. The Railroads were all blocked up and one train on the Chicago and Mississ- irpi Railroad with large number of pass. engers and several members of,he Legisia- ture, was frozen up on the prairie in snow drift eight feet deep. The passengers burn. ed the cars, and by robbing the cars of consignment of oysters, preserved them- selves from starvation. The Chicago Jour- nal of Monday, says:
 When last heard from, the Speaker of the House, axe in hand, was presiding over ood-pile--the Chairman of Banks and in- corporations had under consideration a snow bank fifteen feet deep and twenty miles in exsent-clearly bank of ''deposit." The Committee on Internal Improvement were despatched after mince pies and sandwiches, while the lobby had resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the state of the country.
 The storm of last week had been contin- ued, being of tho intermittent type, until Saturday evening. when with the snow al- ready about two feet on level, as basis, 1t commenced showing in earnest, continu- ing through the night and yesterday, and this morning it would seem as though the spirit had just begun to take its walk. The depth of snow, if on level, would be from three to three and half feet, though the drifts range iron, .ffieen to fifty feet all through the country.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

RrM iS Bsooxrl.Lp-A quantity of li- quor was found and taken short time since from Turrel's hotel at Brookie but no justice could be found willing to try the clse. Justice Oakley of Bridgeport, went up for ,ha, purpose on Friday, bu, he found the rumocracy rampant. and could obtain no room in which to hold the trial. The Rrookfeld brass 5and with s.eigh-bells and tin pans, were out in full force and esco..ed Mir. Oakley to the cars. Under these un- favorable circumstances, it was thought bes, to adjourn for some two weeks.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

V A committee of the New York Leg isla.ure have been examining the encroach- ments on New York harbor, both on the New York and Brooklyn side. Private piers have been extended out so far as to in- ,erfere with navigation and impede the op- erations of the Navy Yard, as is alledged. The committee were accompanied by Gov. Clark of New York, Gov. Price of New Jersey, and Gov. Dutson of Connecticut. The latter said that Connecticut, was both directly and indirectly connected with the safe condition and easy navigation of New York harbor.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

A JUVENILE B.rrLs.-roung America and Young Ireland, the former of the Gov ington, Ky, high school, and the latter of Catholic school, had pitched battle with stones in that city last week. It appears that between the boys there has for some time existed Eeud, which the concisiatory efforts of their teachers failed to subdne, and that the foreigners made the assault, which the natives resisted, until the city authori- lies were called into acquisition to quel the disturbance.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

The Providence Journal, in a paragraph upon the times, makes the following very just remarks:
 "If the whole people were capable of rising to just and noble economy-to an independent, manly repudiation of those enervatng luxuries that eat into the revenues while they corrupt the morals of nation; how readily we might throw off the einbar- rasmen,s which our foreign indebtedness have brough. upon US, and which weigh us 10 the ground. One years steady refusal to buy dollars worth of foreign luxuries. one years careful, judicious economy on the part of every family in the land, would fill it with cheerful plenty. But this is talk ing of the millennium.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

A joint stock company was some time since orpanized in Norwich for tie purpose of supplying it's citizens with gas, in oppo- si,on io the special chartered gas company. % I.he work of laying down the pipes was commenced, nm and an application was then made to Judge Storrs of the Superior Court T bv inc special gas company, for an injunc- lion to stop the proceedings oi the )olnt stock concern. Tine case was argued DO, fore the Hon. Judge few days since. and inc result was refusal to grant the snlunc- ion. the Judge declaring the rights of the joint stock company to be equal to those of inc charter company. This is an important decision, and is worthy of attention by all whon, it may concern.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

DESTRUCTIVE FiaE.-The eng inc house and machine shop of the Buffalo and Brart- ford Railroad, at Fort Erie, were destroyed by fire, on Monday night, together with five locomotivss; the loss is not less than sixty thousand dollars. The late rioters on the railroad are suspected of having fired it.
 A daring attempt was made to murder 'lr Oldfeids, a prominent director in the above named R. k. Company. He was sho. at while riding in his sleigh, by man he had previously noticed crawling along under fence. The ball passed through his hat, maxim. sligh, flesh wound on his head.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08
Tilc Eevclutioa Progressing ia Esxico.


 New Orleans papers of Friday uro re- ceived. The correspondent of the Bee st the City of Mexico, states that the revolu- 'ion IS assuming a formidable aspec, in the South. Alvarez and lieutenants have determined to march upon Mexico. Villa veal has been made General by Alvarez, and placed at the head of the lst division The report goes that he is making forced marches.
 Gen. Vega had left the city of Mexico very precipisately. and his departure had oc- casioned much speculation. Those best in- formed say he was about to proceed to Ta- maulipas to relieve General Woll of the government of that department. It was gen. erally credited in the Capital that Ciudad Victoria had pronounced against the Gov ernment.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

THE PLYMOUTH FlRc-The following are the companies in which the clock fac.ory destroyed by fire |, Plymoa.h Hollow was insured: S5,OOo each in the "E,na," Y" Hartford" and Connecticut" of Hart ford-$5, ,000 in the Home," N. Y, and 8, ,ooo in the" Springfield" of Springfield, Mass. The loss is stated a, ,Sl0, ,oo0 above the insurance.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

DisGaAcerUL.-About fifty women re- gently attacked tavern in Mount Pleasant and destroyed large quantity of liquor be- longing to the keeper. After deraolishing the casks they dragged the propriutor thTo' the liquor which stood about inches deep on the floor. Warrants were issued against about twenty of the parties, but the officers returned with the report that they were un- able to serve the processes.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08
THE WEATHER.

IfJanuary was an unusually warm month, we are having ample amends for il in Feb. ruary. The last few days have been in- tensely cold-the thermometer falling low CT on Tuesday morning, in this village than has been known for some years, I7 degrees below zero, and Wednesday morning still colder-25 degrees.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

The Editor of the Altany Register, having been disturbed by an assemblsse ef cats under his window, thus gives ven. to his indignation:
 But those cats, in cur cpinion are in danges, and we warn all who have any in- seresi in them, either pressnt or in expect sncy to look to them. We have been con strained to watch for hours, when We ough, to have been asleep. We have heard the clock strike twelve, one, two, at intervals in their performances. and have been tempted to the use af terms not to be found in any religious work, or any of the standard ser a,ons of the day We have dropped brick. bats among them, wasted more wood upon them than we are able to spare, have taken cold by exposure to the night air, hecems hnasse by hallooing scat. We have ex. haasssd our loose pieces of brick. the smaller sticks of our wood-pile. and our patience - ln view of all lhes. facts we submit ti,a, there is nothing left for us bu. to ,aove our. sclf. or move those Cats, and tee shall no, move. We havc prepared double bArrclc. gun. . full supply of bird shot with the necessary quantity of powder aud percussion caps, and in our opinion somebody's cat will 70 homs so,0s moon-lighl night, com plaining q fssIing unwsll. If they do, VI nsst bs hssd hafuaIess.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

TAs ProposGl 10 Reopen ,he African Stare 7rade.-We think there is sufficient moral sense left in the country to feel shock- ed at the proposal of the Southern Conven- tion to reopen the African Slave Trade.- When this idea was first suggested, i, was treated as an extravagancG of the ultra slave party, or as a misrepresentation of tho abo- litionssts, put forthwith the view of heap ing odium on the South. This WIS the an- swer of some of the New York papers. that had been conspicuous in their support of the compromise measures; and these who re- ferred 10 the proposition were s,igma,ized as lending themselves in the bad work of sow. ing sectional dissensions, and making ill., blood between tho North ard the South. It comes now in shape that will nc, be ques- tioned for it's authenticity, and s shows, more than anything else of late, the length to which the advocates of slavery are pre- pared to 70 in establishing the institution as the distinguishing feature of fourciviiizalion. The plan is not only to extend our borders in the direction of slavery, not only to spread slavery over regions now free, but to reopen the supply and legalize the traffic which has been pronounced piracy by the general judg- ment of mankind. This is the way in which we are expected to hold up tise prin- ciples of American republicanism, and to show to the world the blessings of free in- siitutisns. Long ago the most cminen, statesmen of the extreme Southern school declared that slavery was the corner stone of republican institutions.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

CHURCH PRoPERrY.-A bill has been introduced in the Senate of New York State. prohibiting the vesting of church property in the person of church functionaries and their successors in office, and provididg that it be vested in the socie,iea themselves.- Several Catholic Church societies are now under ban for refusing to surrender the church property to the control of their bish- ops, and this bill is designed to uphold tho course of these societies, and in a measure to crush the temporal power and influence of the Church of Rome throughout the State.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

JOHN MoNsoN, New York medicine agent, was found dead in his bed on Mon. day morning at boarding housein Bridge port. He retired the evening before in ap. parently good health, and when discovered had the appearance of having died without struggle. Apoplexy is suppo sed to have been the cause of his death.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, Esq, of New York, has addressed letter to the Post Master General, conveying proposition to run semi-monthly line oi steamers between New York and Liverpool, in alienation with the Collins line, provided the Govern ment pay him for his mail service the sum of Sl5,0oo the round voyage.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

FAILS VuLAsE.-There have been four prosecutions for drunkenness-ali success tal. This place and the Iron Region round about in Canaan and Salisbury, used to be famous for drunkenness but since the first of Angus, the liquor shops have closed up and there has been great reform in the ha- bits and appearance of the people.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

THE MERIoEH TaAHscRIpT is the name of sprightly, well-prin,ed weekly just start ed at Meriden, in place of the Connecticut Whig. ltis ably conduc,rd by L. R. Webb 6; Co.,, and we wish its publishers all the success i, deserves.
Litchfield enquirer., 1855-02-08

WHAT THE ABoLITIoNlsrs ARE MAD ABouT.-A friend recently from Washing ton, says the Hartford Courant. has related 10 US little incident that transpired short time ago in the Senate Chamber, and which made some amusementa among the members. Mir. Gillette, our Senator, sits near to Toomhs, of Georgia, and they frequently pass good-humored joke. Afew mornings ago. just before the Senate was called to order, while several of the members wer C standing near, Toombs said to Gillette: "rhey say, Gillette, that you aboli,ionists [ TO mad with the Almighty Jor makmg the n,g- gers bdcI" " Your informant is slightly mstaken," replied Gillette; we are only mad with you shareholders for mak,ng them white." The allusion to the bleaching pro- cess that is going on among the colored population of the South was at once under- stood by all, and Toombs joined with much good humor in the general laugh.