Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1857-05-28
General News,

statements, although there is doubt that he is
making some very desperate move in which if DOS
sible he will enlist the services of the Indians hos
| tile to countrymen
The q. S. Court has been thoroughly put down
in the Territory; the officers threatened with death
and glad to escape with their lives All late letters
bring accounts of fearful murders aud outrages upon
persons who endeavoring to escape f1om the hor
rible society. 1t Is rumored that Mr. Mungo. Dep
uty United States Surveyor, who started out to
commence his surveying operations taking with him
party of q men, had been massacred by the Nor
mans, together with his entire company.
Frem Mexico, we learn that Col Crabb, with his
party OF fllibusters from CALIFORNIA who entered the
state of Sonora time since, had been captured
and with his whole party condemned to be shot We
give in another part of our columns history of the
COL taken from the n Y. Tribune The prisoners
to be executed amounted to 60.
The Rev. Mr. Torrance, Protestant of France,
through the American Homestead Co.. has obtained
5000 acres of land in Virginia. at IS cts per acre. and
will immediately thither with his flock, con-
sistng of 800 Waldenscs, from the Alps in the south
east of France
A great Tea Total party lately took place in New
York, at which vera assembled some 1900 persons
This party was gotten up by the American Juvenile
Temperance Society and it is contemplated by the
Society to give series of meetings of the same
character, in the different localities the civ As
many as three hundred children were present, on
three hundred different tables. An hundred Young
ladies' dfused the imprisoned beverage, and each
table sold it's own tickets that the boards were
all surrounded by circles of friends.
The Toronto Globe understands that for the last few
night after the close of the regular business of the
llne the Montrea! Telegraph Company in conjunc.
ton with the American Telegraph Companies thro'
the States of Ohio. Michigan and illinois, have been
working direct from Chicago to Quebec via Buffalo
Toronto and Montreal distance by the tclasraphc
route OF some 800 OF 400 miles The object of
this lengthy communication is to establish the cor
rect longitude by solar observations of the different
places. Lieut.. Ashe of Quebec, conducted the OBJ
scr'ations at Chicago. The operators say that the
lines worked beautifully ON fine nights, and the sig
nails went through us instantaneously as though the
distance was II instead OF 400 miles. The longest
stretch of the great subm urine cable between Eng
land and America will be about l. 900 miles 50 tina,
if the difficulties Of laying Iowa the cable can be
'esstuily overcome there appears to be- far as
human reason ctn foresee no difficulty as to the
working of it. The operators in Toronto who watch
ed the signals from Chic ,go to lebec was that if
the distance had been twice great the electric flu
ii would have bounded over it quickly--i e. lit
orally i'll less than time, as the signal leaving
O.,ab o,A u ~? C1-:
+ P. NJ Chicago time being about one hour slower
than that at Quebec.
The F~ksbury Times. informs us that one of the
most diabolical deeds that was ever known to be
perpetlated in that city, occurred the evening of
the 9Th, at Washington Hotel. A MN by the name
of Thomas Grayson, called the negro boy Harrison
belonging to Mr.. L. Lewis to him. and ordered him
to take off his hat, which being done promptly,
he then made him take Off his coat and not being
satisfied with this compliance of his authoritv wish
ed him to go still further AMI strip himself: to
this the boy respectfully objected, when he mmedi-
ately drew pistol and shot him in the neck, in
iictng dangerous and it is to be feared mortal
wound.
The Spcakershp of the next House being appar-
WA
Clerk will naturally be chosen from some at least
nomnally Free State, and already the following
names have been suggested those of probable can
didates for the post:
Gen Hiram Walbridge (ex-M. c., New York City.
James c. Allsn, (exM CO.. of Illinois:
John L. Robinson u. S. MarshalN, of Indiana
Richard R. Connolly County Clerk, N. Y City
Harry Hubbard M CO. of New Hampshire
In case a Northern Speaker should be chosen, Mr.
A. D. Banks of Va editor Sorhside Dsrocras) stands
good chance to be Clerk.
The Great Rail Road Celebration which sends ont
some three thousand Invitations, which number
Will be largely increased, by each gentleman being
permitted to take as many ladies he chooses, is
now all the talk. The tickets are good for three
weeks, on the roads between n Y and St. Louis
via CINCINNATI. This arrangement will enable par
ties to visit other portions of the West and return
m time to avail themselves of the ticket to return
which will forward them by the Northern Route
This is, indeed, doing things upon grand scale
Alas that the itch, who abundantly able to paw
their passages should alone be privileged to pass
free, while thousands of deserving poor who oil
their lives have been desiring to visit the West. are
compelled to remain at home for lack Of means
We would reccomend, that the next excursion Of
this kind, should embrace at least thousand Door
printers
The Worcester papers state that four murder cases
have been brought before the Supreme Court in this
city since Thursday morning. The Court finished
the session this afternoon with the following result
John Glynn, for the murder of Peter Nauohton and
his vic last november, was found not guilty Sam
uel Gleason, for the murder of his infant child in
January, was discharged on his own recopnizance
Godfried Redman for the murder of S,,,ne F1oo,;
man last December, pleaded guilty. on a cbaroe IF
mansaughter, and was sentenced to two xe.rs -,