Litchfield enquirer., 1857-09-10
News of the Week.

News of the Week.
 A curious fact was stateI at the late scientific Convention at Montreal by member of the Geolog- ical Survey of New Jersey. The coast of the Atlan
 tic states is subsiding-that is gradually sinking in to the ocean, This fact is especially noticel on the shores of New Jersey and Long Island. Below the present tide level, in salt marshes, remains of heavily timbered country can he seen. These re- mains were not foated there but grew on the spot. Their stumps remain upright the bark, in some is yet them an their roots still found in the soil Wherever the coast is protected from the action of the surf by sand bars, these stum,s are most numerous Thousands of acres are cover ed with them We need hardly say that such trees cannot grow in salt water and the proof is therefore strong that the tide level is higher than it and that the coast lst have sunk. These things especially noticeable all along from Montauk Point through Staten Island to Delaware Bay. In some clses, the stumps and fallen logs have been covered up by the seasand to the depth of several feet. 14 some places which now salt marshes, trees grew within the memory of the living One man declared that he had lost thousand acres of timber land in his life time by the advance of the tide upon it. He could trace this advance from year to year. From the facts gathered in the Geo. logical Survey, the subsistence is set down at per haps two feet in a century. How long will it take thus to lose the whole Of Long Island and the sandy
 
 The \. York Evening Post says it is reported that the fioatisg debt of the Illinois Central rail road is some four millions of dollars, whilst the 10 per cent nstallmcnt due the 25th September, will yield only S ,700, GOO, lc;,vin" floating debt of over two millions yet to be tarrcd. The PrcSi- dent left for Europe few days since. probably to prepare the fo.csn creditors for the ''ta.'' which he knew coming. The '' insiic v knowing ones have been selling their stock for some time past and it has been running down rapidly. There appears to be rotten part in tic atrs of the pany, not previously known to the public if it is
 
 MT. Bright, the Chief Engineer of tire Atlantic Telegraph Company, has published report, in which he says that the workman who applied the brakes was an entirely inexperienced person. His staff had gone to bed exhausted. He himself went forward to about the sailing of the vessel and while he was gone, the cable broke. Two things " thou paying out the cable, an that the differ ent twistings of the cable of no moment Tl.c dec ision of the directors relative to the time of re- s'ming the work has not been made public. The London Times of the 22d lays, " It appears that the company considering whither they shall renew the attempt in Oct bcr which is often quiet month on the Atlantic, or wait till next July. and meanwhile accept or two offers which are under | blc with view to its being applied toa ccmmuni- cation with India"
 When Mir. Dayis. the Secretary of War, 1e,noy- ed Rev MT. Sproie from the Chaplainct of the Uni- tel States Military Acad my at West Point, to give place to Rev Mir. French, an EpiscopafSan the in- cambent being Prcsiyt 'ri,n it was surpsisiny that so little was said in regard to the naughty de mands of the Episcopal church. which seems to in- q ( iyf tna and ceremonies of that chul,h. From the uuietncss with which our Presbyterian friends submitted to this interference, and the fact that Episcopalians ! have almost always held the chaplaincy it wouhl seem to he almost a forcgone concusion that for the army we have government religion. Precisely
 the same state of things has been inaug guraed at the l Aa:al Academy at Anna ofis Ever since the fuun- lation Of that institution none but Episcopa!ian chspltinS have been ordered there for uty and it S | understood that arrahgem, nts have been made to perpeuate this state of things for some years to come.
 The Stamford Advocate says thas during the last fifty years, there has not been single dwelling house burned in the village or indeed in the town, involving loss of more than two or three hundred doll ITS. 1t also says that from ten to fifteen thous- anu dollars per al,sln have been expended fer the last thirty years in pay!ng insrrance premiums, most of which it thinks could be saved to te town l,y a mutual insurance cumpalfv
 Augustus H. Kissam, the postmaster at White stone, N. Y. who wrote famous letter ts Mayor Wood in reply to political 'circular,' which that gentleman had sent to hi,s, has been removed for his '' free speech"
 l There were several counterfeit bill passers on the alert on Wednesday night. Aboat 9 o'clock en individual calling himself William Smith, pur- chased some ornaments of tritiing value at the erockery store Of John Ryan, corner of Sth Avenue and 4lst street, and offered in payment a spurious 50 bill which purported to be ef the Hartford Bank . of Hartford, Conn. MT. Ryan, under some pretext detained Smith until he could send for the police , In few moments, officers Lear and Palmer, of Che 2-d Wrrd, were m attendance. Smith seeing them coming, and knowing full we'll their er alsl pa,la an efort t" escape, and managed to run down the avenue some distance but was capturei In his flight, he tore up number of small bils and threw roll containing Sr0 of the issue into the gut ter whose they were subsequently, found by Serct- Van Orden. The prisoner w.s yesterday taken to the police court and committed fer examination The Portsmouth Journal in it's last column of "Rsnihles aboat Portsmouth" relates the follow ing | aneedote of one Capt. John Sal CT. who foursl ed in that Tt ighborhood in days of yore One event in the early life of Capt. Salter, although not of much interest shows his calculating east when a boy. A stranger of some show and huster one day called and desirous of visiting Newcastle, he asked 1 the Boy Co TOW him down. Nothing was said about s she pay, and so the young ferrynlsn, to test his aoneSty, handed him on of the islands oss their way The man jumped on shore (supposns as the , ooy wished t he should, that he had reached New castte') telling the lad that he shenld meet him in town some day, and pay Mm. The boat was put of sF edtiy. The stranger looking around and find ing himself the sole nhahitant of the island called 1 for young Sater to return. The boat,nan however was not to be trifled with. and with "Perhaps we shall meet some day in town" he left him t, tle sole possession of the island''
 -Csrt. !I,tr' the diver, who went down 10 the