Litchfield enquirer., 1857-10-08

hl', "hicn was eighteen days making the trip to Panan a. She touched off Havana on the evening of the 18th, and at Key West, on the morning of the 29th
 Among her passengers are Senator Gwin, Gov Foote, Hon. c. L. Scott of California and Colonel Starkweather, late U. $. Minister to Chilli
 TheG. S. Frigate Wabash, and British ships Brunswick and Tartar, were at Aspinwall. and the U. S. ships John Adams, Decatur, at Panama:
 The news fr"m California is interesting. The State election came off on the 2d of September re- suting in the election of John B. Weller and the wh,l Democratic ticket. The vote thus far, stands Weller 10 GOO; Stanley P GOO; Bowie 2. .OO0. In San Francisco the peoples ticket. which sympathi- zed with the Vigilance Committee, beat the Demo cratic ticket eighteen hundred votes. The election passed off quietly.
 The steamship Sonora, which connected with the lost Central America is reported to have but small number of passengers. including several prom uent citizens of San Francisco. hundred and thirty-two mail bags, containing besides newspa pers thirtycsht thousand letters, and S1 ,595 496 in treasure.
 The Bremen bark Laura arrived yesterday morning at New York, with three survivors from the wrecked Central America, John Tice First Assistant Engineer, Alexander Grant, a fireman, and George w. Dawson. a colored man and passen- ger liiey were picked up on the 2lst of Septem- ber after they had been for eight days and twenty hours without food or drink, by the British bark Mary of Clcencck, Scotland, whence they were trs nslerred to the Laura the 18th.
 As Lieutenant Holland and Officer Hagen, of the Police, returning from Covington, between : and 8 o'clock on Saturday evening" they saw number of men on the Landing in possession of nesro whom they accused of having stolen a car pet sack. The officers, contrary to the disposition of the white men, took the negro into custody and placed Linn in the Hammond street station-housc, but after keeping him there some time no one ap- peared against him, and he was discharged The negro says he has been slave, and travelled about the country great deal with his master, resident of Kentucky, who, number of weeds since left him at the Dumas House as servant, telling him he at liberty. On Saturday evening" however, the master, witk several other persons the negro asserts came to him. and seizing upon him. endeav- ored to return with him into slavery by carving him across tile river, in which they would have been successful had not the officers intcrfcrcI The negro, we understand, has since left the City, fear ing he may again be placed in bondage.
 CUtca.nuh Commercial, Sept. 2S.
 By a letter from Kansas we are inf tmed that - singular ycllowsh appearance, arose id the north near the village of Manhattan, and soon the storm burst upon the inhabitants It was neither rain. hail, or snow, but grasshoppers, and in about ten minutes, the ground was covered with them They came in droves, and struck the houses like large hail-Stodes. Soon the ground was strewn with corn leaves and ears, of which, two inches through, 1T l,,lf +l,. husss and corn trimmed as with knife, leaving the bare cob standing. Two and a half acres of buckwheat, three acres of turnps. water,nelons and all vines on which they fed, eaten up ex- ccpt those on the south side cf piece of niillet In l.ct, they cleared out every crop except sugar cane There Was field of sugar with corn on both sides ot 1t the corn taken and the cafre left The Ssassioppcrs remained at Manhattan 4s hours ond seemed to be travelling South, stopping there to feed. When they left they passed over Ogden hSh in the air. and did not descend. The cloud seemed to be aDoht ten miles wde. Ui4adtHa Tines.
 Seventy suits have been instituted in the Su- prene Court of New York to collect the scho'ar- ship notes of the Antioch College by Francis Pal mer Esq. President of the Broadway Bank, who is the assignee of the College. TIs Evening Post states that |" the payment of the notes will be tried to be enforced the ground that they are certificates of stock and their holders stockholders in the institution, and liable to twice the amount of their notes under the penalty laws of Ohio, where the college is located. w. w. Badger, Esq, is retained for the college by the assignee.
 4-The daughter of D. D. Stone of Essex, III felt sorne object moving at her feet in her bed, few nights since, and rising quickly, struck light. The intruder Was huge rat,ie>nak The young lady dropped the cloths, and scattered
 A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, speaking of the wonderful developments in the Minnesota copper mines, ives the following acs count of solid " chunk" of virgin copper, which fling labor in opening new shaft, the miners un. covered se sies of masses, going mp and down, for the neigh, of seventy feet, and going OF, ol sight both above and below. At one convenient, point they broke away behind the copper, 80 as to get in a sad bias, of five or six kegs of powder They then stripped the mass further. and fired again without result. Again they fired nine ke! and the mass remained unmoved. Breaking tie rock around for considerable distance, eighteen kees were shot of without effect and again twen- ty-two kegs, and the copper entirely urdisturbed al any point. After further clearing, twenty five kegs were shot eff under the copper, and it was thought with effect. But final blast of thirty kegs, or 70 pounds, securely stamped be- meath the mass and fired. As soon as the hot air and powder smoke had time 10 clear away, a mass of copper, some five feet in height, and from three to five feet in thickness, apparently very pure, and which will probably weigh three htn- dred tons, had been shot out. and was ready for cutting up. The blast had torn the immense body from its bed without exhibiting a sign of bending cracking it in any place, so great it's thick ness and strength. 1twas torn off from other masses, which still remain the solid rock Abou, one hundred feet to the east of this is another large mass, which several parties are exposing,