Litchfield enquirer., 1856-02-21

= s.s1114 -. - .GE IT. Jesasksn sslIln,an Of Colsbrook lsN dewn snd. dkeds of hssTt disease, snds dsaI1 = Thufs6sy.
 sU Thssy xsls s7 bis.hs, E narriagss snd r Asalke, rd1istsred in WinchsstsE, dssing sks year l656. sF ' sss s~ Gen. cess had . fall, on tho Pa. sshs 016cs sseps, ono day last week. md was taken up senseless. A large gasf wass seas in his head. and one arm injured bas 10 bones were broken. He has sinca besn oon6neJ 1o Isis room, bat will be out sgsln ia . ssv days.
 ~ Tie great iron steamer Psys;s, iust ssrivei, sttsacts much notice in New York. Che is mammoth affair her entire length bsing 39o feet, and her rseistessd tonnage $500 tons. She fs moro than 100 feet longer than ths Atlantic, and hsr tonnage l. grsasef by epS haIE
 U Joha Fl. MsDnsy. the passntee who % recently gained the great reaper case of MeCorInick VI. Mznney, before Justice Afc- Lean, in the U s Circuit Court for the Norihern district of Illinois, died at Rock ford, ILL, ep the afternoon of the day on whirh the decision was rendered in his favor. His disease was consumption.
 U A petition now in circulation among ths .ciiisens of Maryland, advances some sssong argsn.enls in favor of the suppres- sion of the nnnneries which now exist in that StAta. They are termed Private Pri. cons. into which women and girls are de- -soyed under various Pretexts, and there confined, without any protection from the laws under their present syssem. @
 u As,ronomers say that if cannon ball were 6red from the earth to Saturn, it w0sId bs one hundred and eighty years in grtting there. In that event professor John Pheaix thinks the people of Sainrn would have time snonsh to dodge the shot.
 U The British fleet in the Sea of Azolr, is stafed to have found atsribis esemy in the form of large and destructive sea worm peculiar to those waters. They ai- tack the uncoppered parts under the water line of tho ships, and bore through them with the rapidi,y Of an old carpenter hand. ling sa aager. Vsssels navigating these ssas have to Dc sheaihed to the water line, sr else shsir dsys are soon numbered.
 r Serions troubles with the Florida In. eians have been repar,ed of late. A few days since. near For, Myers, a party of weodcuttsrs, consisting of . corporal and Eve men. wrre fired al ny twenty Indians. One man only escaped, Che slightly wound ed); the rest were ,nassacred. and twelve mules kil ~d. Lieutenant Larned. 2d Ar siiIery. directly went in search of tho say. sgss. hut though he secured the country around. not sign or trace of them could be fosnd.
 u At tho latest accounts from the Sand wieh Islands, the town of lilo in Hawaii was in imminent danger of destruction rom the lava flowing rapidly towards it from the crater of Msnuna I.oa. Serious appre- tensions were entauained by the cilizens. The termination of the stream of lava on the 18th of Osce,nbcr last was eight miles west southwest from lilo. and its course was directly towards Byron's Bay and the town. On tho night falIowing i, made an snssual rapid prog ~ss and spread over d much wider space than before, whicl, cir eanistanes was probably owinyto the struc- tsrs sf the ground.
 0 The MisssuH Legislature appropri ased live thousand dollars annually, for len tears. to remove free coiorad people from that State 10 Libetia. and the agsnt wshe, to send nut sixty or seventy this year. A eolosed rnigran ffom that State. write. back--" do not regret coming to Liberia snd do not consider America any placo oi home for the frre colored raopla. and 1t is tho ssrangest thing to me in the world te tee them in Americs, sit down contentsd wiihost one ray of hope this side of ,h. kravs. can tell yoa that would not ex change Liberia. and all my privileges, for all America"
 tr Tho Nav Jersey Geological Repor, shows that tho Atlantic Is steadily, aud rather rapidly. encroachiug upnn the iand on tie coast. Al Caps Island tho surf h,s ate inwards full a mile, sircs the Revola. uoa. Along the Bay Shore in Cape May the marsh wears away at tie late of rod h two years. One of ina heachss npon ,h, coast is mentioned as having moved in Nasds one hundred yar,is. in the last twenty yeafe. ], is also tho opinion of the oldes ebservers that the tides fiss higher upon th. Easssru New Jsfsey uplands than formerly
 1 The Editors of Ohio have had ' pleasant time ., thsir annual session |, public Consentien. One of the good move, was the adoption of \ resolution which de eistss. that, as newspapers arr chronicle, Of the time, 1t is important for city anc eountTy journals to preserve scraps of loca history. particularly events and tradition which pertains to tho wilderness and ,h, picnasrs. In tho Westafn Sta,es, this ma tesial is peculiarly ahundan,, hut tho peopl, who can tell stories half century old ar, dropping away, and presently thss and ihei knowledge will br buried together --,,niess indesd. thelr stories ara gathered up by ih, local Ecisors and preserved in prin, Thi job is easy. and the utility of .he wori would be very considerable. The Obi, Convention. before adinurning. also adop,e, resolution accommodating the prepars,io,