Litchfield enquirer., 1855-07-05

| prostitute oi Dudhe street. need not pro-
| nounce the ''morial,'' (as Burton calls it.)
On all this; let each one read it for himself.
hut we do think here that the aforesaid viz
tuous people Of Brooklyn look rather foolish
al this distance.
| The ilne old country games of cricket and
base ball are growing to be very fashionable
| here, and the practice Of them promises 10
improve the Physique of that portion OF
| Young America who fad themselves con-
| fined by their business too much indoors.
| The numerous clubs at this fine season of
the year indulge in frequent excursions, and
on some chosen "tiltng ground" with their
friends and sweethearts as spectators. pur-
sue the manly sport with as much spirit as
animated the ancient tournay.
! ~ The New York and Boston papers
have been hoaxed By an account of an aw-
ful murder and robbery at Hartford. Moth
ing of the kind has happened.
- 4 man in Louisiana was lately fined
one thousand dollars for separatinga mother
from her childrcn.in selling a gang of slaves,
it being contrary to the laws of that State
- The y. Y. Herald says thatorganized
military bodies Of foreigners, attempting to
oppose the exception of the laws, " oud be
shot down in the streets like wild beasts.
- Gen. Pellessier, the new commander
in-chiet Of the French army is the man who
some ten years since, in Africa, suffocated
500 Arab men, women, and children in a
cave, because he could not make them sur
render.
- 1t is said that bears are more plenty
in Vermont this year than they have been
for twenty-five years. They make sad ha-
voc among the sheep on the mountains.-
Young and old bears have been caugh; with
in few days in ChittenLen, Ninhall, and
other towns.
IL There was an attempt to seize a fugi-
! tive slave in DayviIe on Wednesday, 18th
inst, but the citizens interfered and the
/ fugitive escaped. The Fuoitive Slave Law
! has not yet been enforced in Connecticut
rs' Some of the New York papers are
, urging the Governor of that State to com.
mute to imprisonment for life the punish
meat of Mrs. Robinson, convicted Of muir
der and sentenced 10 be hung.
u Among the late counterfeits that have
been put in circulation are IS on the Stnn-
ford Bank altered from genuine ones fves
Oh the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, in
, Hartford, female with vase-female with
a rake on the DIFFERENTIATION head on the
left; tiYes on the Iron Bank-female feed
Ing an eagie-unlike the genuine; fifties on
, the Hartford Bank, altered from ones.
~ This year there has been quite a fall
ing of in the number Of foreign emigrants.
One cause may be the American spirit which
now pervades the country, and another the
high price Of provisions and The low price
Of labor. But the great cause is probably
that the war has drawn OF vast numbers to
the armies Of the East. The decrease of
emigration 10 Canada has also been very
marked during this year.
IT The removal of the distractions in
the harbor Of ST. Johns, Newfoundland,
will be completed in August. The Eng
lish steamers from Liverpool, will then be
| able to land at that port, and by means of
telegraph we shall! be within sir daYs' COM
munication with the old world. This ought,
% satisfy US a little while, until we yet a
telegraph across the Atlantic.
| - War has broken out between the
squirrels and the birds on Boston Com
mon. the squirrels having commenced i,
with an onslaught upon, and by killing
.aasee young robins. The bereaved parent
birds charged IN return upon the squirrels,
a:.d at the last accounts from The seat of
war, the latter were getting decidedly the
worst Of it,
The Waterbury American says as the
afternoon train from HARTFORD to Waterbury
passed Tertyville, the train ran over COW
on the track, which failed to throw of the
engine, tender and baggage car, but the con-
cuSsion caused the passenger car to bolt
from the track, turning it bottom side up,
down high bank. Fortunately the coup-
ling held fast. and the passengers, IL in
number, escaped with very little injury-a
mos, miraculous escape. The cars run of
st the same place las, winter.
- A recent emigran, to Kansas under
date OF April %, writes to his friends in the
East, and par, of his letter is published in
Boston paper. He says the timber that
grows there is walnut, hickory, oak, cotton
wood, and some other kinds. 1t easily splits
into boards, shingles aud rails. WaInuts
and other nuts are so thick on the ground
that they can be shoveled up. Hogs can be
kept without feeding. Cattle were not fed
the past winter, and they look as well as
the cattle in New Hampshire in the Spring.
Game is plenty. There are deer, wild tar