Litchfield enquirer., 1857-04-30
FRIDAY.


in stock speculation. The firm failed lately, proba
1 bly, owing to his dcpredations.
Beck Co. were the largest retail merchants, ex-
cept A. S. Stewart, in New York. They had sup
posed themselves rich, and could not understand
the cause of their deficiencies. McIlvane, who had
been in their employ for many years, and in whom
they have placed the utmos, confidence, had lately
bought him a magnificent place, on one OF the ave-
nucs sud was living in grand style at the expense
of his employers.
4 The late storm was not felt either in Canada;
Vermont or New Hampshire. South OF bt . a.,,s
it was rain while in Central Massachusetts III IT.
san,e was true in Connecticut In New YORK, thcre
was violent rain while farther SCUM IL "''' eho"
| which was three inches deep III snsihi"
| H. Tribune States that Messrs. Grinncll &
u;tnrn have offered free passage in the European
anLe cts to all Polish exiles now in this country,
who may wish to avail themselves of the general
amnesty granted by the Emperor Alexander ii, OH
Ills Coronation Most of the exiles in the United
States were too poor to pay their own expenses.
Letters from those who have arrived in Poland state
that the amnesty is carried out to the fullest extent
by the Government German papers 81 re accounts
of scores of exiles vending their way to their
tive land every where chccred and aided by the Ger
man people. There is no doubt, however. that the
majority of the Poles who have been for any length
of time i'll the Uaitcd States will prefer to remain
here.
The maple sugar has thus far been
successful one throughout the New England States
In Vermont it has proved the best for ten years IN
Northern New Hampshire. We learn from the
Manchester Mirror, the business has been unusually
lucrative, although the late storms have probably
closed up the season. Some large yields are report
ed and the Mirror says one youth who is fitting for
college, has realized enough from a small maple or
chard. the use Of which kindly volunteered him
by wealthy neighbour to send him to school four
farms foix him, =.
would ordinarily have taken him twice or three
times that length of time to obtain.
Little more has come to light regarding Scratch
ard, the " Pardon ForGcr," except that it is asccr-
tanned that lie is fugitive from justice having for
ged the name of the Hon. L. B. French, Of Wash
ington tty, for 500.
The shipments of Holsters from Provincctown in
1855 amounted to about 50O, oOO and in 1855, to
about 400, COO, Of which Boston and other parts of
Massachusetts, had so GOO.
ANOTHER WIFE Observation-Disclosures Of wives by
husbands and of husbands by wives, by poison, pis
toll or poinard, are terribly frequent now. We find
the following account Of the latest and Of the
most atroeious in the Wabash Express Of SATURDAY.:
"a young man named Aleck Mulinix, it is said
murdered his wife yesterday morning at his resi-
dence near Manhattan, Putnam County. The facts
these: He got on his horse af'er breakfast and
rode to his father sand told him somebody had killed
his wife, while he gone to feed his horse at the
stable. He told others that his wife fell the
stove. Those who went to his house, found that
the young woman skull was broken, and that she
had received three blows, enc with shovel and
two with an She WAS breathing. but s.nseless
when first seen Ivy the ncighhors, and lived about
two hours They say the breakfast table was stand
ins with the victlus upon it, and that the biscuits
were still warm, and that, theref re, the horrd deed
had b. ell committed but short time when they
thc neghborx, came to the house The couple had
been married just three weeks The young woman
was daughter of David Sublcttc. Munx is in
the custody Of tie officers of the law.
Wool IMroRTEp ENGLAND.-The imports
of wool, partly from her colonies, into Eng
land in 1903 is given as 9,396, 440 pounds in
lS3l, lO6 ~ ,9?5 pounds; in 1855, $4,000 446
pounds i'll the first ten months of 1856, 50, ,52l
pounds. The home product of wool in England is
estimated at 81. 600 600 of ieeces annually avcra
ging four pounds each, This is not all manufac
tured in the country France Belgium and the Ger
man States all buy English wool and, to our shame
be it spoken, do here in this rich agricultural
country of the United States.
ANOTHER RENTED ROBBERY Il ARRoTING.-Fran
els j. prosolae, Italian sailor, as charged, WAS
entccd into an alley in Baxter street Park
street., by three young ruffians, who then knocked
him down, and while two of them held the poor
seaman firmly Ivy the neck, the other forcihy rob
bed his pockets of $40 in money. Officer Sherlock
villains running away, and following in pursuit.
overlook and arrested ore of thcm who gave his
name Thomas Burns His accompliccs escaped
The prisoner is boy sixteen years of age. He WAS
taken before Justice Osborn, and locked up to await
examination.
The steamer which arrived at New York last
evening, brings days later from Europe
in which there is nothing of interest, however, OK
cept that the vceroy Of China has Issued despatch
to the Council of China, declaring a war of exter-
mination against all outside harbsrans
THE Su1r GREAT RErrnLIc.-Thc following is
AN extract from letter from the first officer OF the
ship Great Republic written after tho arrival of the
ship At San Francisco:
Cur passage out is considered here most splcn-
did triumph, and people crowd down to the dock IN
thousands to the monster Considering the
iiSht weather. which with scarcely any VARIATION
We experienced after crossing the Equator in the At
lantic. the run is certainly the quickest and most
| extraordinary ever yet made.
AS it is, we think We stand number three in the
record of quick passages from New York to San
Francisco, and do not believe that our ran from
New York to the Equator will he approached
much less be beat, hy any ship that now floats on
salt water.
have logged her on two occasions as high rs 10
knots, ship running with the nd "a beam under
skys;ls, royal staysas and fore and maintopmast
studding sails. She is very easy and chafes aloft
less than any vessel over Not crack can lie
found the paint between decks, in the joints
of the beams and knees and they say here that
cargo was ever delivered in California looking so
bright and clean and SO entirely free from damage
OF any kind.
Our run to the Equator in the Atlantic. from New
York, was 10 days and 10 hours to the Equator in
the Pacific, ~ days, and to San Francisco 81 days
The ship has not leaked much water the
passage out as We have used for the ships use''
This ship, it will he remembered, is the largest
clipper ship built. 1t was burned to the wa
ter S edge, the night previous to the day which had
been appointed for her first voyage at which time
she was cut down and rebuilt.
SATURDAY.
On account of the existing difficulties hetSsen