Litchfield enquirer., 1857-03-26
News Here and There.

i -SpIlnS, ike an unSOverneQ cnlld IS once aSaln upon the hills, now laughing and toying with the iobins and now scolGng and in teals, weeping it. self to sleep by the side of melting drifts where i a violet anemone is found to have been its bed fellow. Ere long there will arbutus flowers among withercd ferns of the swamp; and he who yesterday l treated his love with maple sugar, shal1 bind a wreath of blossoms. mingled with red berries which even the whitening hand of winter has not crushed and yet to day the snow is falling. l John Wentworth, the Republican Mayor of Chi cago immediately upon his election gave one ,hi,i of his salary of s, 800 to the freman's benevolent society Of the city, and s4OI to the widow of Seiiet the German killed bv the rioters. In making this last gift he wrote to the German committee :-" No man regrets more sincerely than do the importation of the spirit of Border Ruianism into Chicaeo Yet have all along foreseen it as the IT en who would degrade free labor, and substitute slave labor there. | for. are the same everywhere Hc,e. as in Kansas. we o""h' not so much t" blame the poor instruments | of your count'yman's death, who we,e so intoxi- cated that they hardly knew what they did. as the institution itself that furnished the means of inoi cation: and thereby impelled the murderer stroke A new Catholic chu,ch is soon to be erected in Waterbury. Its spre is to be one hundred and eighty seven feet in height.
 ] -Ihe people Of New Britain are about to introduce gas into the streets and buildings of that thriving town
 In Winchester Centre, Conn, there has not been death in one and half years and but two or three deaths, in three years. The village is surrounded hy RI 1,,:A, physician in the place!
 Stamford is evidently looking up. The Grand List for 1856 foots up s3,s3O, ,olS-an increase of sl1l,6l7 over the year previous Their gas compa- ny h 's declared dividend of three per cent We are sorry to add, on the authority of the Advocate that one of their citizens and married man. is SIS, pected to have eloped with young woman boarding in the family.
 | A large portion of the Knitting Factory in New Brita in was destroyed by fire last week. The building was POO feet long, with brick partition and iron doors fifty feet from the North end This end YVES s.ved and also lot of manuiact ed goods Loss es;imr;ed at from slS0,OO0 to $50 OOC-in- SUI cd for $50 OO0 of which about s3O O0Oi,i in Hart ford offices the lest in Providence Springfield Boston and Bridgeport. About 100 hands were employed in the factory, and GOO to 400 women and children within ci'cuit of eight or ten miles wee supported ty tbe sewing given out The south wall fell upon the loof of Peck Wal ter foundry. crushing it in. We did not learn the extent of the damage.
 -lhe California Legislature had impeached Dr. Bates, State Treasurer, and G. w. Whitman, Con troler for msappropriation of State funds, to the amount of s2oO,OOO. Bates resigned, and James English ex-Mayor of Sacramento, succeeded him Twelve of the band of robbers who ,t gently mur deled Barton, have been hung by the people of s.u Diego
 Companies of flllibusters are being organized in the interior, for the aid of Walker
 A bill to legllize the State debt, has been intro duced into the Senate, and will undoubtedly pass.
 The New York He,ald states that the new cabinet are all wealthy men, and gives the aggregate of their property. as S4 5OO,OOO From the official reports of 1856 we learn that there in California S16 public schools attended :, ty 26,1G0 children and taught by All teachers The number of boys in the schools Was F. 4o ill the year 1s55 anf l4, BPS in 1886 of girls there were 1 Il, ,Sl3 in 1856, and F, ,435 in ls56
 Miss Topper, young lady residing in the Pines." Rockingham County, Va, committed suicide on Saturday week by hanging herself with skein of yarn from a rafter in the garrett of her fathers residence. She had been disappointed in love affair." and had before threatened to destroy her self
 ! -Eecollect that Spanish coin is not depreciated lSThe Tinted States mint f1vo =, ,,;yI - Al full current value for it in new cent pieces. Colonel Fremont is busly engaged in New York preparing the reports of his last three expc ditions for publication.
 Three suicides have just occurred in Massa.hus- etts Mrs. Lucy Whitney, of Gardner, committed suicide by hanging herself in the wood shed. last Sunday. while the other members of the family were attending church-Mts Upham of Uxbridge. for. merly of Worcester, while laboring under a fit cf temporary insanity. on Mondar, cut her throat in frghtful manner. and she will not, probably. sur. vive-A young man belonging in Oaf I'd, having lost his money in a gambling shop in Worcester on Friday, committed suicide the same night by taking poason-So says the Worcester Spy.-Mr Owen Lowell wife, of Greenyile, R. l., committed suicide on Saturday last by hanging herself with piece of cloth to hook in the wall. She had a morbid dread that she might die by consumption, and took this edeetual method of avertfng Ma catastrophe! | The aggregate expenditures of the State of Cal iornia for the year ending July 30 1856, were sl- ss0,ss4