Litchfield enquirer., 1857-08-06

A fight came of this Tuesday, afternoon in Louisville, between Geo. D. Prentice editor of the Journal, and R. T. Durritt. editor of the Courier. Prentice way laid Durrtt he passed along Jefer son street from dinner and shot at him three times Prentice returned the compliment, and shot twice at Prentice, but nobody was hit or hurt Prentice when he made the attack, was surrounded by a crowd of friends all armed to the teeth and prepar- ed to back him. The excitement is great-Cor. of l Ctncinnah Gazette.
 A Catholic paper in Canada states that the Rev. M. Bailargeon, Cure of St. Nicholas before a single soul perished, gave absouton to all the un l fortunate passengers. He was in his own parish on the opposite shore of the St. Lawrence observ- ed the danger i1 which the lives of those on board were, and pronounced the absolution
 | There were five hundred passengers on | board the Montreal when she took fire. Saints and heretics were crowded together in one dense mass with the prospect of sudden destruction before them: when, presto! this Cure of St. Nicholas 1 from the shore. pronunces absOlution at once. To an outsider 1t would seem, ii this priest, by of his hand and the muttering of benedttion, could place this promiscuous crowd in state of sal Vatlon, so that they ready to enter paradise the moment they died, that he might with equal ease have performed lesser benefit to the unhappy wretches surrounded by the flames and at a word extinguished the fire and thereby saved their lives | When the Son of man on the earth he not only forgave sins, but he stilled the tempest and thus l ii all the Catholic priests in the country had been on board that illfated steamer, they could not in vr- l tue of their united power to work miracles, have saved her or themselves from destruction. If they
 then be not able to do that thing which is least' why pretend to that which is greatest ?-Chr Sec.
 There lives in affluence in Nantucket, in the elghtieth year of his age and in the full possession of sound intellect and the enjoyment of all the respect and affection which we'll spent life con- mands, a retired whaling Captain the keel of I whose ship never touched bOttom-who was never at sea day without going aloft, except in gale of "lnu,- never lost one man by abandonment or otherwise, or had one off of duty more than week by slckness-who never lost but one spar, though distinguished for making short passages,- who never returned from d voyage without a full cargo of sperm oil. He has had sixteen apprentices mostly uneducated boys from the lower walks of
 lfe whom he instructed and trained to his own cal Ing and every of these he has lived to see in re- spectable standing, and several of them holding high rank as shpmasters
 Several warehouses filled with whskey, were re- gently destroyed by fire, in Memphis, Oho As soon as the two banks caught fire there was a stream of whiskey, brandy, ale, rum, and gin that commenced flowing through the broad gutters tow ard Main street. The liquid currents caught fire. The blue lambent flames foated down the broad thorougares of city, and were famed for nearly mile by the fresh breezes from the southwest We saw man endeavoring to eXtinguish the flames that he might get drink.
 He brushed away the floating fire with his hat and dipped into the stream his long nose and protruded lps the frail barrier above gave way; and there came flood of alchohol, his head caught fire and the last we saw of him he travelling at ra-roa speed, like torchlight procession down Jefferson street.
 Gen. Wool, who had command of the California Division of the United States forces during the Ad- ministration of MT. Pierce explains hot7 the Gov ernment while pretending to great vigilance in sur port Of the neutrality laws yet tontrves to facili tate the movements of the fibust Gen. Wool acting on the assumption that his instructions to that effect given to be obeyed and that Presi dent Pierces proclamation directing all officers of the Government civil and military, to use ary eff.
 forts which may be in their power to arrest for trial and punishment any persons engaged in fitting out armed expeditions to foreign countries, gv en in good ath caused the arrest and conviction of certain parties employed in enlisting recruits for Walker, who was then in Lower California of which he had taken possession, and proclaimed himself President and in consequence of this disappoint- nlent In the failure of his supplies, Walker | driven out of the Mexican territory The Secretary of War Jeff Davis) instead of commenting the General for his vigilance, promptly snubbed him therefor, and told him that it not expected or desired of him that he should originate arrests and prosecutions, but only that he should support the l in the civil department understood that the procla- nations against the fillibustcrs were intended cheat, and therefore took no notice of thcm while Gen. Wool wis kept from interfering by Jeff Davis special instructions. This explains how the scoun- drel Walker enabled to organize his Nicaraguan expedition openly, without interference from the United States authorities.
 Out of fifty of the largest manufacturing estab- lshnents in New England the stock of only six ol, The Lowell Bleachery is worth 20 per cent advance ; the Pcpperell Mill stock sells at about 10 per cent above par and the Merrnac at per cent. advance The present selling price of the New England cotton and woolen corporation is about Gfy-tco csnts on c dollar.
 Prof Brocklesby has been computing the age of the " Charter Oak,' Hartford, from the rings The result that he arrives at is that the tree is nine hundred and forty-fve years of age.
 In Lancaster Pa, the other day, a laly was tsNalking out with little dog as her beau when a tall. gruff-looking hound made rush at the little dog The latter very nmbly skipped around the lady, and disappeared The hound looked first this side then that then up into the air. and after talk ing turn about the lady walked off in great aston ishment thereupon the little dog wagging his tail with exceeding joy at his escape, emerged from der the ample folds of the lady crinoline ! MT Miles Darden, who lately died at his resi- dence in Henderson county, Tenn, was beyond all question the largest man in the world. His height was seven feet six inches-two inches higher than Porter the celeb, ated Kcntuckian giant. His weight fraction thousand pounds! It re- qured seventeen men to put him in his coffin, and took one hundred feet of plank to make it. He measured around the waist six feet and four inches Jackson [Tenn. Why.
 Tine St. Louis Democrat announces the arrival at that city the 21st inst of the steamer Twilight af ter trip with Indian goods and government stores to the mouth of the river Aue Trembe distance of two thousand five hundred and twenty-five miles The trip occupied fifty-one days. The Democrat thinks that such trip this will serve to impar to the denzens of the Atlantic coast some true notion of the great extent of the West We think it will.
 Accurate experiments have been made in Illi- |