Litchfield enquirer., 1857-04-30

;hd tho Patent Office interesting facts concerning
the raising Of stock, in which the people of that
mart Of the State are principally engaged. The ex-
pensa s n. nothing, the cattle subisng entirely on
n. s.oe and mosquito grasses which abound in the
vaIlevs of the Perdinales and Colorado rivers The
only trouble consists III collecting and herdns them
in the spring Herds in that region number from
1O0 to i COO head, worth on an average calves and
warnings included Sc to 81 cows and calves 500
twoyear olds, $40 three-year Odds. Sl2. WORKING
oxen command $40 to $50 the yoke Cattle keen
fat the year rouhu.
During the recent session of the Superior Court
at Bridgeport, Judge Waldo presiding, 178 cases
were disposed of, leaving 408 still on the docket
In the vicinity of Cooperstown. N. Y. on tn.
l4th the ground was covered with snow to the depth
OF twenty inches, and in some parts of the county
it was said to be three feet deep.
The new cent will be distributed to the nnb;,
in about three weeks. A million are already com
pleted, and two millions mere will he finished before
the mint commences paying them out Col Snow
den declares that since the establishment of the n
the large amount OF eighteen hundred tons of cop
per have been used up i'll the manufacture of pen
MES, making 150, 600 600 of picl es The ouantitv
OF Spanish coin still in the country is estimated at
two and a half million of dollars
MONDAY.
A legal question regarding the bred Scott dc
cision has already come before the people of New
England, who are resolved to try the question Of
state sovereignty. The democratic canyassers OF
the TOWN. OF gloucester X. |. struck the names OF
the colorcd voters in that town from the list in the
recent election, alleging that they were justified in
TINS outrageous action by the decision in the case of
bred Scott. Legal proceedings will be commenced.
ana IL Will soon be known neither State sovereign
ty is farce or no.
Hey Antonette Brown, more recently Rev.
MRS. Blackwell, appears to have made failure in
her HYSf
n T., over which she settled, is now dissolved
and the meeting house closed.
Mr.. George Peabody, of London. the American
banker is now visit to his brother, living nca,
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, plain, transformations farmer
thou@h IN good circumstances, surrounded by his
fertile fields and well fed cattle
The two men. Martin and Bulklcy accused OF
taking goods from the store of S. & G. w Snow OF
Deep River confessed their guilt and were sentenced
40 'he STATE prison. the first for four years and the
other tor three: The robbery co1nmittrt on the
3ist ut. and in little more than a fortnight they
were convicted and within the walls of the state pr
son at "ethcrsfeld. This is speedy justice.
1t is reported from Washington that the Adj
ministration intend to Withdraw all their troops
from Florida and send Commissioner to negotiate
with the Indians. They find it utterly impossible
to drive them out by force.
The Indian troubles growing mort and more
serious, and a general lorder warfare may be ex-
pected. In Northern Iowa whole families have been
murdered in the most savage and brutal manner,
and a number of women taken captiv,s. United
States troops in pursuit, while the inhabitants
on the frontier collected together in temporary
FORTS suffering greatly from exposure and want OF
food. This will doubtless claim the prompt atten-
tion of Government and be taken to resist
the determined hostility manifested by all the Indi
placed on the frontier especially the Sioux and
Pawnces.
BY the way of ST. Louis we have a report that
great excitement exists at Platte at the mouth OF
the Nebraska, in consequence of the Pawnee Indi-
ans having driven out number of settlers at Salt
Creek fight occurred, resulting in the death OF
dams were captured. Gen. Thayer of Omaha City,
had raised party of volunteers to protect the
settlers.